Before we get to Gill’s latest, I just want to take a second to say sorry for the last few days of absolute silence. but more importantly than that, I need you all to listen to me very carefully. If somebody tells you that the various plagues going around this year won’t finish with you …
Monthly Archives: January 2018
A Demonstration Of The Voder, The World’s First Speech Synthesizer
Long ago, Carin put up audio of a history of different speech synthesizers meant to show how the technology has evolved through the years. Included in that demonstration was the Voder, a device first shown by Bell Labs in 1939. What you heard back then was only a few seconds of it, but because the …
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That Was…Uh…Your Performance Review. Yeah…Performance Review. Job Well Done!
The good news is that the methods used by police in Pennsylvania to carry out undercover sex stings seem to be working quite well. the bad news is that we know this because the chief of the Leechburg police appears to have tested them himself. JUST IN: Leechburg Police Chief Mike Diebold’s mug shot. He’s …
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Never Say Bye Without Your Supply
In spite of the stupidity at work, I think I understand the decision making. Though it was one of her own creation, our friend here was caught in a no-win situation. Do you go back for the drugs and risk getting arrested, or do you let them go, losing more than 40 grand in the …
Best News Bloopers Of 2017, Part Two
Here’s the second part of the 2017 news blooper compilation. You can catch up on part one here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omyUxKuvYKY The weather is kind of like Harvey Weinstein today… And before any of my fellow blind kids ask, the answer is no, I have no idea what’s going on with the music that keeps cutting in …
Mr. Wrong
Assuming that everything Eugene Wright says is true, this is all kinds of messed up and I’d hate to be the person tasked with defending against his recently filed lawsuit. It’s frightening to think that even though these sorts of things don’t happen on the regular, it wouldn’t take all that much laziness and irresponsibility …
Part One Of 2017’s Best News Bloopers, Plus A Bonus Song Parody
In some ways 2017 felt like one giant, never ending news blooper, but things weren’t all misery, believe it or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD3DjN7i1Fg Oh, like on a playground! And to the folks taking on the one chip challenge, this one’s for you. lyrics and a play button are here, in case the embedded player doesn’t work …
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There’s Always Time For Tim Hortons, But Don’t Expect It To Be Paid Time
For the record, I support Ontario’s minimum wage increases. The sorts of folks who work those jobs often do very important, tedious, thankless and difficult work and they deserve to get much more in return for it than they do. For instance, it’s usually them who has to deal with the public with a smile, …
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Another Guy Who Can’t Keep His Hands In The To Himself Position
It’s been a little while since we’ve had to talk about it which is nice, but unfortunately there are still folks trying to be much too nice to their seatmates on airplanes, which is not nice at all. Seriously fellas, let’s cut that shit out. According to the FBI, the 22-year-old victim was traveling Wednesday …
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iSlowne
The other day, Apple confirmed something that anyone that’s used an iPhone for any length of time already suspected. They’re slowing them down on purpose. The older ones, anyhow. The reason, so they say, is to protect degrading batteries in older phones. That’s perfectly sensible and I have no reason to doubt them, but it …
