Shawn’s Journal

I just had to laugh when I read this article. Oops it wasn’t tomatoes making people sick, it was peppers. They didn’t even have the right food! I feel so safe. Also, how many tomoatoes were destroyed from all this? What a huge waste of resources.
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN30334138

I’m running a round 2 to my new form of poetry. For those of you that didn’t read my previous post on this, the next version of Adobe Soundbooth will come with speech transcription, allowing you to take recorded spoken word and convert it into text on your screen. I wanted to know what it would do if I gave it a sound that wasn’t a human voice. So this time I took a sound recording of a bowling alley, as recorded from right where the ball hits the pins. Editor’s Note: I took out some extra copies of the word “the” and I also added the commas myself. Other than that, this is exactly what it said:

The road, the eye, the room, the it is the U, the second, the U, the Internet, I don’t know the game, no I love the show, the road.

It turns out that bowling pins are even more poetic than wiper blades. If it was written by a human, wouldn’t you see some very deep meanings in there somewhere?

You rarely see one that fits so well with those popular appended words.

The next version of Adobe Soundbooth will come with speech transcription, allowing you to take recorded spoken word and convert it into text on your screen. Well I was testing it out today and out of curiosity I wanted to know what it would do if I gave it a sound that wasn’t a human voice. So I took a sound recording of windshield wipers on a car going back and forth, and sent that through the speech transcription. Here’s what it came back with:

In conclusion you can do it took the group but given the end of the victims were women and one the people who were pulled out and put your foot what can you the good the court the book it didn’t in the it would completely took the woman took the big the good the good good and the cookbook forty the good and when the book look good

All I can conclude is that my windshield wipers are very pro women’s rights, and are willing to go to court over it. Good for them!

Using the Iron Chef system, what score do I get for “plating?”  For taste you’ll just have to trust me when I give it a 10.

I finished reading Steven Colbert’s book “I am America…” I have to say, I wasn’t impressed. For those of you that don’t know him, Colbert pretends to be a racist ultra-right-wing Republican, both on his show and in the book. One might call his character an intellectual white-collar Archie Bunker, exposing our stereotypes and worst thoughts in hopes that people realize just how silly they are. The premise seems great. Here are some theories as to why I didn’t like it:

1. After 200 pages of pure satire (or even 50 pages), it’s not funny anymore. It’s like sugar: you like it but you’re not going to enjoy eating a bowl of it.
2. It’s too real. It’s sort of depressing reading the pages and knowing there are actually people out there that do think that the greatest threat to America right now is illegal immigration or same-sex marriage.
3. I only laughed about 6 times…I went in expecting be at least smirking every few sentences. I do however love the section on Religion when he’s ripping into each non-Catholic faith but when he gets to Islam, fear gets the best of him and he says that “[it’s] a great and true religion revealed in the Holy Koran…”

With this post, I am officially adding a “Category” to my journal called “Reviews.” Now you can click on that category and see every post where I review (read: complain about) something. How very exciting for you all!