Click on the water to feed them. Click and drag the turtles to move them around. Here is where I got it from.
If you read my blog at all, you probably already know of the fun I have with an audio recorder and the Speech Analysis feature of Adobe Soundbooth. I record common everyday things and let Soundbooth try to figure out what it is saying if it were a human voice. Well this time I recorded my dishwasher. Here’s what it had to say:
A,
the likelihood of your,
your your,
your book,
Good book.
Toure you know,
a write a.
(Note, all I’ve edited in the direct speech translation was the removal of duplicate words, and I added the punctuation)
Interestingly, Toure is an American writer! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toure. So apparently my dishwasher is recommending novels. I just haven’t been listening.
Thanks to hackers, it has come to this. Windows 7 has to ask me if I trust my printer:
Well, I’m not sure if I trust my printer. It’s never stolen my money before, or verbally abused me. But it does run out of ink suspiciously fast, so maybe it’s cheating on me with some other user!? I’m just so conflicted.
Google has a feature where it will automatically guess the search you are trying to make as you type in words. Well I simply typed the word “why” in the Google search box, and look at the results. Is Google playing a little practical joke on us? Try it out for yourself!
Here’s round 4 of my Speech to Text fun. For those of you that didn’t read my previous posts #1, #2 and #3, the current version of Adobe Soundbooth comes with speech transcription, allowing you to take recorded spoken word and convert it into text. I wanted to know what it would do if I gave it a sound that wasn’t a voice. This time I recorded myself vacuuming. What did my vacuum have to say? This is exactly what came out (I added the line breaks):
Do we do it
you do Lulu
you look I the eye
I correct we do good
we I continued
do you
I do the youth
If I were to interpret poem, I’d say my vacuum is into a little dirty poetry!
Check out the iPhone app that makes you into a Terminator. It’s called TerminateMe, and it’s free, as it advertises the new movie (that looks really cool by the way).
The latest version of my journal software allows me to see some graphs that show me the amount of spam journal comments I receive. It was staggering! I’m glad it automatically removes the stuff or else I’d have a full time job just moderating the comments. Here’s some interesting graphs:
This first graph shows the number of spam comments I get per day. Apparently October was a big month. It almost looks like even spammers are hitting hard economic times recently though:
This next one compares the amount of spam I get versus real comments. Come on people, you can do better than that!
I can’t believe I haven’t posted about this. The geek inside me is shocked I took this long. Two weeks ago, I broke down my resolve and joined the iPhone crowd. I had been holding out this long due to some important features that I needed. However I was finally able to work around those issues. It did necessitate hacking the crap out of it to get those missing features, but if it works it works.
Here are some of my favorite features:
The biggest plus goes it it’s web browser. It’s as close to browsing on a real computer as you can get. Obviously it’s lack of Flash support is annoying, but other than that it’s great. By the way the lack of Flash is because of Apple’s SDK rules, NOT Adobe’s fault.
I also love the programs other people have created for it. Here’s a VNC app, that allows me to control my main machine from the little screen no matter where I am:
Another great little program is air hockey. You can even play two players over a network!
Some other great features: I found that I can type pretty darn fast, because I’ve learned to trust the phone to correct all the mis-typings. So as long as the letters are in the general area of where I typed, it will usually figure out what I meant to say. Also it connected to all my email accounts with almost no work on my part. I didn’t have to know all the stupid server settings or anything.I also love the Shazam app, that lets you hold the phone up to anything playing music, and it listens to the song and tells youwhat it is. 10 years ago, people would equate that stuff to witchcraft!
I don’t like: I would really like to tether my phone to my computer so I can use the phone’s network connection for Internet access. I also miss some of the more PDA-type functions of my old phone, like the ability to snooze event reminders and set more meeting details and privacy settings.
All in all, a great little pocket computer!
Google keeps a history of all your web activity (if you let it) and I have been letting it record all my searches since August 30, 2005. A few interesting facts:
- In the last 3 years I have performed 13,343 searches. That averages about 11.5 searches a day, or one every two hours.
- I have never once performed a search between 3 and 6am. What can I say, I value my sleep.
- Two of my most searched sites are World of Warcraft web pages. Since I haven’t played that game in over a year and a half, the fact that they are still lingering in my top 10 shows you how addicted I was to that crazy game.
- My #1 most searched term is “ADBE.” You might wonder if I have a typo there, but no, that’s the stock symbol. Of course I keep a close eye on that!