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Google Voice Poetry

I started using Google Voice months back on my G1 Android phone to transcribe my voicemails. When you leave me a message, I get an email containing the text version of that message. While I can still listen to the voicemail, most of the time the email is enough to give me the gist of what the call is about. Often it provides hilarious results, as Google has a much harder time with some voices than others. I call it Google Voice Poetry. My Nana’s messages provide the best results. Sorry, Nana… these emails were too priceless not to share! In this voicemail, she is thanking us for the peanut butter we sent as a birthday present to my grandfather. “Peanut butter lovers shows that you have a diabetic.” Hi, silverware, have you been? We’ve been trying to call you. Yeah, Susan, that boggled. He got his present and expected today, and I put it, and I live a falling out of his mouth because of the recipient. Peanut butter lovers show that you have a diabetic. That’s 98. Wanted […]

I got some lip from a ROBOT

I called to check on room availabilities at a few hotels in Towson for my parents’ visit next month. Google, of course, gave me a few pushpins just a few miles up the road, so I started calling. What’s amazing is that with each call to the front desks, I was redirected to a call center somewhere else to field my questions on room rates and availabilities. I’m a mile away asking a question to a lady who could be my neighbor, and soon I’m talking to someone on another part of the world who pronounces Baltimore wrong. On one call, I was connected to Lilly, who spoke remarkably crisply and quite lovely. She asked the standard questions, and when it was my turn to respond, my questions were standard as well. “I’m wondering if you have any rooms for the weekend of October 4th?” “That weekend. Let me check. I am checking. Yes, we have a standard suite available with one king bed and an attached living room for a rate of $116 a night, with cancellation up until

What’s on my dock

As friends make the jump from windows to mac – I often get asked what mac apps to use? Where are some good places to get software? What’s in your dock? Here is what is currently in my dock… some programs I use often – others I recently downloaded and need them visable so I remember to try them out. Most are free… I left out the standards “I” Programs. Itunes and whatnot. My Dock djay – Uses Itunes tracks with two digital turntables.. not sure what to do with it. But’s it’s fun to play with. Now I really have two turntables and a microphone. quicksilver – A quick app launcher. the precurser to ‘spotlight’. It works much faster than spotlight and has many plugins to make the program dig deeper into your computer. It searches bookmarks and address book entries as well as Ichat logs. appzaper – They had it free one day. It’s a great way to delete apps and makes a cool sound when deleting. Like uninstall for windows in that it deletes many of the

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