you probably don’t want to look at this if you’re easily offended or a woman.
google voicemail transcription
let me preface this by saying how in love i am with google voice. the ability to have one number that rings all my phones is a dream come true, and of course, it would be google that comes up with a solution. i may actually get a google tattoo on my butt, i love their products so much.
one of the functions of google voice is the ability to transcribe voice to text and email a transcription of your voicemails to you. this keeps me from having to call my voicemail to check when someone calls - i know whether or not it’s important by the transcript. since fuzzy logic is still in its infancy (voice to text transcription falling into that category), it sometimes misfires a bit; regardless, it’s always entertaining.
that said, here’s a transcript i got from my daughter today:
Hey Dad, man. Two questions, 1. I need a lecture on algebra to tonight. I have a crap load out or to Walmart because I’ll be in a punk in class. Soc. Since hi this. I did tell her that I understood. Some of. I’ll direct you sheet. Just, A, V, upon can give me a favor if you can work so I have a lot of Expo and it’s like them the fraction eggplant and inviting them and multiplying them and simple flying in crap and I don’t understand that I’ve gone over the guys from notes multiple times I’ve book with me. I just need help and I have believed mode like i need to know if they say you have to do some of the with graph and talk to you later wondering if you had one and wondering if I could use a computer so I think it try and understand it, that or if you don’t understand that. Thank you by 10.
google just makes my day.
woot! i’m having a good time being on twitter’s beta list. the latest improvement: retweets now have an icon, which is kind of bad-ass.
from Grand Rants:
Bod-hi-satt-va
–noun (from Buddhism)
A person who has attained prajna (Enlightenment), but who postpones Nirvana in order to help others to attain Enlightenment.
LOVE this. i really dig the concept of a bodhisattva, and this is a perfect example.
be like han
i couldn’t agree more with this: http://randomstuff.filmbuzi.hu/post/188077431/stevewhitaker-so-hans-walking-down-the-halls
and that, peeps, is a big-ass computer monitor - the 27” iMac in all its massive righteousness. and on my desk, no less. (in the dark, of course…it’s late here.)
i love stuff like this. you might think it’s silly, but it’s thinking like this that will change the world.
#GoogleWave
i now have TWO google wave invites that have been sent to me. neither of them have actually been delivered.
what the hell, google?
a watched pot and all that
@gawthrok was kind enough to lobby for a google wave invitation for me today, and the gentleman who had some spare invitations (@craigcpowell) said he has sent one to me.
that was at 10:30 this morning. i’ve been refreshing my inbox like a gambling addict pulls a slot machine’s arm, but still nothing. every spam email, every travel site update, every piece of trash landing in my inbox has me freaking out. just now, i got an email from facebook notifying me that someone i’ve ignored 4 times already has just attempted to add me as a friend *again*.
i mean, seriously. it’s google. it’s not like their servers forgot or something. where’s mah invite?!
that said, i just re-read this post and had a bit of an epiphany, realizing that i’m truly a geek, period.
you have to use Google Chrome for this one, but if you don’t already have Chrome installed, you’re kind of lame anyway. unless you use a Mac. in which case you’re already awesome, and you know it.
fabulous follow-up to the Windows 7 launch party video (8 posts below). this is what happens when your marketing sucks - someone takes it and improves it for the masses. i’m pretty sure there’s a marketing video producer out there looking for work now…
and you wonder why women have self-esteem issues with their bodies. you couldn’t even look like this woman if you wanted to - it’s photoshopped!
