Monthly Archive for March, 2009

This one is dedicated to Mr Espionage

I love my friends… and I love Dave… and how much he sweats… and I kid because I love.

.. but this one is best.

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Defender of the universe!

This is courtesy of the tireless efforts of my brother to relive our days pounding bowl after bowl of golden grahams and watching this stuff:

Another sign that robots are taking over

AT&T’s labs continue to stay at it. I mean it’s clear they’ve had a knack for this kind of thing considering they’ve spun off whole companies just from their R&D department. This isn’t just another text-to-speech — this one speaks other languages too!  Especially interesting is its ability to talk in an accent if you feed one language into another’s algorithm.

Check it out.

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

If you have a lease account with Dell like I (unfortunately) do, try putting “Thank you for calling Dell Financial” into the last option. Eerily accurate.

Can’t Wait For Summer

This is from last year’s summer fun.  Can’t wait for it again this time around.

hot beef sundae

hot beef sundae closeup

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no-tent camping

hazardous cliff

the guitar hero

sunset

I just realized my first two posts have beef references… yum.