And There I Was, Switching Tapes Like An Idiot Every Time I wanted To Hear Something Different

I’m sure at some point, whether it held 3 or 5 or 25, almost all of us owned some sort of CD changer. And when I was young I remember my mom having a record player that could hold something like three or 4 at a time. But until today, I don’t remember ever having …

Fact-Checker, Fact-Checker

Here’s another one from Randy Rainbow, A.K.A. the Desperate Cheeto guy. Something occurred to me as I watched this. I laughed because it was funny, but I couldn’t escape the feeling that some of the references seemed way out of date. It was similar to the one I would get in 2009 while sitting at …

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 …

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 …

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 …