We started by talking about Zurzweil and his poetry generator and your reactions to this program.
I discussed and demonstrated a similar program that you can play with if you like. (jar file, text from Tom Sawyer to try as input). To try this yourself, put these two files in the same directory and at a command prompt type
"java -jar RandomWriter.jar <seed size> <output Length> <source> <output>"
For example, I might type
java -jar RandomWriter.jar 5 1000 sawyer.txt output.txt