All the Awards, Special Geeky Edition

Over Thanksgiving weekend, I took a break from Querki, but not from my keyboard. My project while visiting the in-laws was to return to the OP Compiler, specifically to get all of the Alpha listings -- the list of all of the awards possessed by current members of the East -- to parse. It was a long project, dealing with decades of accumulated typos and stuff (even Caitlin wasn't perfect), but the biggest part of the project was adding all of the out-Kingdom and Baronial awards listed therein.

As of this morning, that's now complete. Folks who are curious are welcome to take a look at the OP Compiler Page on GitHub, which has all of the current program and data. For extra geek appeal, I've enclosed the Config file below, which is the master key to the whole thing: every award found in the EastRealm Order of Precedence, with all of their manifold spellings. It's an interesting wander through the Society's award system -- you can get a bit of insight into many branches just from how they name their awards.

Two more major steps left in the data processing. The easier one should be processing all of the Rolls of the Orders -- for each award, everybody who has received it historically, including those who have moved out-Kingdom. The harder one is to go through the older Court Reports, which are in all *sorts* of different formats, and parse them in -- I believe I'm going to need to write a fairly general-purpose parse tool to cope with those. At that point, we will be reading in All The Data Ever, and I can move on to reconciling the inconsistencies (with which I will likely want help), and finally emitting the thing in a DB-compatible format. One step at a time...
( For the geeks: All The Awards )

Sometimes, the inspiration doesn't come until a bit late

So this weekend's music was mostly off of Kate's father's playlist, and it happened that Janis Joplin came up a couple of times. That seems to have percolated in the back of my brain, because this came out in the middle of the night:

Lord, won't you buy me the Pre-si-den-cy.
I think I deserve it, since I'm a Romney.
And it will ensure that I remain tax-free.
Oh, lord, won't you buy me the Pre-si-den-cy.

Lord, won't you buy me a house painted white.
I know that it's small, but I'll try to pack light.
To earn it, I've made sure my wings are quite Right.
Oh, lord, won't you buy me a house painted white.