And Now, Your Periodic Reminder Not To Be Asshats To Blind People

Lord knows if it does any good (judging by what happens when we have the temerity to go outside and try to live normal lives it’s often tempting to say it doesn’t), but now and then I feel it’s good to post one of these things in the hope that this time, maybe, just maybe, …

Before He Tweets

After I posted the Radiohead parody, a friend messaged to let me know that I might want to go back to the Randy Rainbow well again. Sooooo… “President Trump is facing bipartisan outrage over a pair of tweets in which he insulted TV host Mika Brzezinski…” “President Trump sending out a bizarre video, and raising …

More Music From The White Trash Washing Machine

So remember the fella who played The Devil Went Down To Georgia along with his crappy ass washing machine? Seems he hasn’t gotten around to replacing it yet, thank god. Fight For Your Right To LAUNDRY: Sweet Child/Washing Some Clothes Now featuring Axl Clothes: Smokey and The Washer: On The Road Again/Wash A Load Again: …

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 I laughed because it was funny, but I couldn’t escape the feeling that some of the references seemed way out of date.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 …