Hobo Explorer

We intended, at the outset, to generate a complete semantic breakdown of every one of the 700 Hoboes, but time and life caught up. Thus, we're open-sourcing this project, in the worst sense of the concept - we give up, and hope someone else will take up the reins. The idea here is that with a semantic analysis of each hobo name, one could then extract a subset of the (unmanageable) 700 hoboes according to one's whim - say, just the ones missing a body part, ones possessing a special talent, ones with poor hygiene (not to say that's not all of them, but we're just going by the names).

You can also hear Hodgman reading them out loud.

The tagging was done in 2006; this app was created by evil robots in 2025.

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