Three Years
It’s been three years. The third anniversary. Before, when I heard someone say “you don’t know unless you went through it,” I didn’t believe them. Now I do.
I never wanted that experience.
Thoughts on Foreign American Dialects
It takes an exceptional actor to do a really good American dialect. There is a “General American” dialect that news and radio hosts and announcers practice, but it is largely nonexistent in nature. :) Most accents are regional. Even if the actors get dialect right, usually their resonance/placement is a bit off and that’s a red flag for me. It’s a bit hard to describe, but when you study accents and dialects, you don’t start with the vowel sounds but you start with what drives the differences between dialects (in English at least), which is where the speaker focuses the placement of their sounds.
Osophy on Usefulness, Sadness of
If I can’t be happy, at least I can be useful.
FreePBX SMS Messaging via VoIP.ms
What Gives?
What’s with all these companies wanting my review on a purchase or my opinion on a survey? I see no recompense for my time for all these thousands of papercuts. No, I will not review my purchase experience or take a survey on how to make you do your job better. Hint: if you want me to give you my time, please offer me something for it. I feel devalued with all of this crap.
Osophy on Snow, Slowness of
Snow is like the time-release capsule version of rain.
FOMR
You’re missing all the action over on my reviews site! Alleviate your FOMR (Fear of Missing Reviews)!
Programmable Speaker
I think I want to get this speaker and build some custom firmware for it.