So I browse Hacker News once in a while. Nice place for tech discussion and other misc topics. Mostly programmers and start-up culture.

So today some dude posts this question: "What non-work task have you automated?"

Lots of lively and interesting discussion. Cool stuff, really.

This gem caught my eye, and I thought you'd all appreciate it:

My girlfriend needed to be texted everyday otherwise she would turn sour. So I made an sms generator that randomly composed sentences combining words from three tables and sent to her at random times. It took her many months to notice. When she found out, she was angry for 10 seconds, but that anger faded to curiosity about how the random sentence composer thing worked. After I showed it to her, she got mad at me again for not updating the tables more frequently :P