Pretty sure I hadn’t heard of Luke Nicholson before yesterday when I caught him on an episode of Humble and Fred, but I enjoyed his interview and man, did I ever like this song. If you’re planning a wedding, it might be a good one to work in someplace.
Monthly Archives: June 2017
Public Transit By Uber
The town of Innisfil, Ontario, a place I don’t recall ever having been in beyond probably driving through it on my way someplace else, has come up with an interesting idea. After conducting an assessment of what it would take to build a public transit system in the mostly rural community of around 36,000, council …
Don’t Be A Dick
Pretty sure Bowling For Soup is channeling my spirit on this one even though I’m not, like, dead or anything. There are lyrics here if you’d like to sing along.
Next Time, Vote GOP! Grand Old Penis!
Police officers responded to a call from the Forest Hills station in Jamaica Plain at approximately 12:15 a.m. regarding a man, later identified as James Sacchetti, exposing himself to an adult woman on a train. Sacchetti, 30, allegedly approached the woman and initiated a conversation about the election. Assuming she voted for Hillary Clinton, he implied …
If Real People Commercials Were Real For Real
It’s no secret that companies think we’re stupid and have no problem insulting our intelligence. To me one of the worst examples of this is the “we talked to real people to get their thoughts on our brand new…” type ad. Anyone with even the faintest snort of a clue knows that everybody in the …
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Hit By A Truck
Didn’t expect this one to go the way it did. A man is sitting at home alone when he hears a knock at the front door. He opens it to find two sheriff’s deputies standing there. Is there a problem,” he asks? One of the deputies asks if he is married. “I am,” he replies. …
Trigger Warning
People shoot themselves this way with stunning regularity, but rarely are those people as aptly named as Jason Trigger. Trigger, 35, was in a Dollar General store in Hudson when a handgun fell from his waistband, hit the floor and fired into his right ankle, according to Bay News 9. He left before paramedics arrived …
Photoshopped Voices, Now With Less Data And More AI
These Lyrebird people haven’t yet reached Adobe VoCo levels of voice fakery, but they’re getting there. And though their aim is to sell their technology to companies whose products include speech synthesis, once it’s widely available, the implications are quite similar. What you’re listening to is a Lyrebird generated Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Hillary …
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Sally Who?
I have nothing whatsoever to say about it, but I invite you to read the details of a man crashing a stolen transport truck into a brothel as reported by Sally Ho.
The Handicapped Can
The nice fellow on the radio said that coming up he would have a song that would stick in our heads all day. That song, as you can see above, was The Candy Man by Sammy Davis Jr. He is correct. That song is going to stick in my and Carin’s heads all day, but …