I am not very smart and therefore have only the faintest of clues how these Markov chains work, but what I can tell you with confidence is that they write a pretty decent Nickelback song. With a database chock full of Nickelback lyrics, I made a Markov Chain write Nickelback lyrics. This is the end […]
Author Archives: Steve Wettlaufer
Will You Wear A Mask? I Ask
I’m surprised it took so long for someone to do this. And it’s even for charity! “Will You Wear A Mask? I Ask,” a rhyming read-aloud picture book for everyone. Performed by Mark Hamill. All proceeds go to World Central Kitchen: wck.org Written and Illustrated by Tom Ruegger Voice Directed by Kelly Ward Film & […]
Sleep, Eat, Whinge, Tweet
I missed this one during the first wave, but since we’re still all at home for the foreseeable future… Let’s start at the very beginning A sore throat, a cough in Wuhan And in no time at all, there were 1, 2, 3 And one went on a plane – took it overseas Overseas And […]
And Now, Your Government With A Message About Coronavirus
If a real government had talked to us about the pandemic in these terms from the start, we might all be in a much better place right now. I’m also a big fan of the term “malignant shit funnel.”
Babystruck
Looks like it’s unintentionally becoming AC/DC day around here. This doesn’t count as music playing kids exactly, but dad here did get his baby to do something resembling Thunderstruck. I recorded my son making baby noises, figured out the notes he made, and arranged them into “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC If you came here looking for […]
It’s A Beautiful Mover
Here’s something I didn’t know. On the same day that he tried out for the job of AC/DC lead singer, Brian Johnson also recorded a song for a Hoover vacuum cleaner commercial. That’s not bad. Not sure I would have figured out it was him had I not known going in, but there are definitely […]
So Should We Reschedule Those Last Few Shifts?
I wonder if this fella considers Joey a musical and/or spiritual influence. According to Anesti Danelis’ website, he’s a musical and sketch comedian, an actor, and a writer. There was a time when he might’ve tacked the words “and a Starbucks barista” to that description, but that time was before he carried his guitar into […]
A Slow Trip Around The AM Dial
If you aren’t the kind of person who enjoys an evening spent slowly turning a radio dial, listening through static and marveling at all of the far away stations you can pull in, chances are you’re going to want to do something else with the next 17 minutes of your life. But if you’re me, […]
It Only Takes About Five Seconds For AI To Mimic Speech Now
I’m not going to go through the whole lecture again, because if you don’t understand by now why this sort of technology is scary as hell and doesn’t bode well for the future, chances are you won’t until you find yourself a victim of it. This video is a couple years old, by the way. […]
But On The Bright Side, You’re Fired
While it seems like everyone in the world is getting the fricking Coronavirus these days, it also looks as though nobody is getting regular old coughs and colds. As a matter of fact, so few people are coming down with those thanks to all the masks and the distancing and the not being around people […]
