The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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I come here with almost any voice, and any accent, you could want from your talking phone:
https://www.ivona.com/
https://www.ivona.com/
Ok. But I don't have that.
Looks like it's browser-specific. Some have it, some don't. Depends on supported browser features, I guess.
Yes, it is the same voice.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Odd. It's there for me in both Firefox and Chrome, and there are no other browsers.
NO. OTHER. BROWSERS.
Interesting. That's what people say about the Matrix movie (singular).
(and FYI it's there in Safari, but not in Aviator)
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Well, I do always say there's really only 1 matrix movie, it's just 7.5 hours long.
GasBandit
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Somebody over at Kelly Scott Madison is either oblivious or wierd. They're the advertising agency that handles Whataburger. Whenever they send through advertising contracts, they abbreviate "Whataburger Incremental Estimate" to "WHAT INC EST"
I don't know, KSM, you tell me... or better yet, tell the cops.
I don't know, KSM, you tell me... or better yet, tell the cops.
GasBandit
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"I understand that if any more words come pouring out your mouth, I'm gonna have to eat every fucking Whopper in this room." - Sandor "The Hound" Clegane
A visitor in our front yard!
You built him a playset? You Canadians really are nice.
That's the sort of thing that can make you superstitious.
GasBandit
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I've found more superstition among the engineering and IT communities than you'd expect to find in a bingo parlor, myself included.
For example, I and most everybody I know believes in...
http://zira.home.xs4all.nl/murphy.html
Especially The Unspeakable Law.
Fluffy McBunny shames my lawn with his munchings and crunchings.
GasBandit
Staff member
Well, it's a long weekend, and there's no work tomorrow, so it may not be Friday but It's THURSDAAAAAAAY!!
This thing is the most comfortable mouse pad / wrist rest that I've ever owned. It's also rather NSFW.
The "butt shape" gives room for my wrist to sink between the padding and has worked far better for me than any flat cushion I've ever used. I got it as a secret santa gift a year and a half ago and after nearly dayly use the cover is starting to fall off and the silicon gunk is tearing off in little bits and getting everywhere. I already ordered the replacement, but does anybody know of a pad with a similar shape that has just a solid color cover? It would be nice to get one that works just as well without looking like it was made exclusively for weeaboos. (And that design linked is among the LEAST bad that I could find.)
The "butt shape" gives room for my wrist to sink between the padding and has worked far better for me than any flat cushion I've ever used. I got it as a secret santa gift a year and a half ago and after nearly dayly use the cover is starting to fall off and the silicon gunk is tearing off in little bits and getting everywhere. I already ordered the replacement, but does anybody know of a pad with a similar shape that has just a solid color cover? It would be nice to get one that works just as well without looking like it was made exclusively for weeaboos. (And that design linked is among the LEAST bad that I could find.)
I wonder what he thought it said.
His elbows 0_o
figmentPez
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Have you looked at Fellowes offerings? Specifically the Gliding Palm Support or the Mouse Pad w/ Wrist Support.
Or there's this cow.
My guess is that he ran his translation through some online translator or computer program or something, but instead of grabbing the actual Chinese version of whatever text he wanted to translate, he ended up grabbing the Chinese from the "print" button instead.
Either that or he's a hipster mocking the "chicken noodle soup" tattoos you see sometimes.
Naw, I meant additional characters on his knuckles. As in his fists are the typeset and his arms are the printer.
Elaborate?
Victoria, a Reddit employee, was let go with little to no warning. Victoria was essential, absolutely essential, for the smooth running of Reddit's very popular "ask me anything" site feature. Not only did she help out on /r/iama, where most celebrity AMAs took place, she also served the same role when AMAs took place on, say, /r/books by authors, /r/music by musicians, etc.
Her importance to the AMA system cannot be overstated. She was the one who served as the contact liaison with the people who would be answering questions. Oftentimes the celebs couldn't type as fast, or weren't familiar with the Reddit interface, in which case she would sit with them or talk to them over the phone, and read out the questions, and type their answers in. She has a crazy fast typing speed, like 200+ WPM. She was also very good at adding the answerer's speech quirks and inflections into the answers she typed.
Additionally, Victoria was a stickler for the integrity of celebrity AMAs. Sometimes PR firms or agents would try to pretend to be the celebrity, and answer AMAs on their behalf, but Victoria would not allow it. If she said she's sitting there with the celeb, or talking to them on the phone, you'd know it's a legitimate AMA. Also, she wouldn't dodge hard questions. She would faithfully ask the celebrity the hard questions, even if they wouldn't want to answer.
Victoria also had a reputation for being one of the most helpful members of the Reddit admins. She would answer questions from subreddit mods, and work with them to address problems. This is in stark contrast to the stonewalling most Reddit admins prefer, when dealing with their volunteer mods.
So far, no reason for the firing has been announced. There's lots of speculation, but nothing confirmed.
By firing Victoria, all AMAs on Reddit have been derailed. The volunteer mods of the various subreddits now literally cannot contact the people who are supposed to be answering questions, because Victoria handled all that. And the people who were meant to be answering AMAs are out of luck too. Victoria was based in New York, and that's where a lot of answerers would physically fly to, to attend their AMAs. There's an agent on Reddit complaining that his client's flown to New York already, only to find out upon landing that there's no longer an AMA to do.
Now, as a result of Victoria's firing, the mods for a bunch of subreddits have set their subs to "gone private", or basically shut down temporarily. This includes /r/iama, naturally, as well as a few others that did AMAs. Other large subreddits, though, like /r/todayilearned, /r/gaming, /r/history etc have also gone private in solidarity. The mods are doing this because they see this as the final straw, yet another symptom of the lack of transparency, communication, and consistency among the Reddit admin team. The mods feel their jobs have been made harder by the obtuseness of the Reddit admins, and firing a person that made their roles as moderators manageable was yet another sign of the admins' lack of support.
So, yeah, half of Reddit is basically inaccessible right now.
EDIT: Goddamit, /r/Fallout has gone down now too. Where am I gonna get my Fallout hype now?
EDIT2: I just realized I didn't specify why the loss of AMAs is a big deal. AMAs are a big deal because they're immensely popular, both among the Reddit regulars and among casual users. A celebrity answering questions can bring tens of thousands of posts to the thread, with the corresponding number of pageviews. This increases ad revenue and visibility for Reddit. Some people have gone so far as to say AMAs are Reddit's primary money-maker. They're so important to Reddit, the site made an AMA app for mobile devices before they made a mobile app for Reddit itself. So, basically, by firing Victoria, they're neutering one of their biggest sources of revenue.
EDIT3: This guy explains better than I can. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLo...was_riama_along_with_a_number_of_other_large/
Her importance to the AMA system cannot be overstated. She was the one who served as the contact liaison with the people who would be answering questions. Oftentimes the celebs couldn't type as fast, or weren't familiar with the Reddit interface, in which case she would sit with them or talk to them over the phone, and read out the questions, and type their answers in. She has a crazy fast typing speed, like 200+ WPM. She was also very good at adding the answerer's speech quirks and inflections into the answers she typed.
Additionally, Victoria was a stickler for the integrity of celebrity AMAs. Sometimes PR firms or agents would try to pretend to be the celebrity, and answer AMAs on their behalf, but Victoria would not allow it. If she said she's sitting there with the celeb, or talking to them on the phone, you'd know it's a legitimate AMA. Also, she wouldn't dodge hard questions. She would faithfully ask the celebrity the hard questions, even if they wouldn't want to answer.
Victoria also had a reputation for being one of the most helpful members of the Reddit admins. She would answer questions from subreddit mods, and work with them to address problems. This is in stark contrast to the stonewalling most Reddit admins prefer, when dealing with their volunteer mods.
So far, no reason for the firing has been announced. There's lots of speculation, but nothing confirmed.
By firing Victoria, all AMAs on Reddit have been derailed. The volunteer mods of the various subreddits now literally cannot contact the people who are supposed to be answering questions, because Victoria handled all that. And the people who were meant to be answering AMAs are out of luck too. Victoria was based in New York, and that's where a lot of answerers would physically fly to, to attend their AMAs. There's an agent on Reddit complaining that his client's flown to New York already, only to find out upon landing that there's no longer an AMA to do.
Now, as a result of Victoria's firing, the mods for a bunch of subreddits have set their subs to "gone private", or basically shut down temporarily. This includes /r/iama, naturally, as well as a few others that did AMAs. Other large subreddits, though, like /r/todayilearned, /r/gaming, /r/history etc have also gone private in solidarity. The mods are doing this because they see this as the final straw, yet another symptom of the lack of transparency, communication, and consistency among the Reddit admin team. The mods feel their jobs have been made harder by the obtuseness of the Reddit admins, and firing a person that made their roles as moderators manageable was yet another sign of the admins' lack of support.
So, yeah, half of Reddit is basically inaccessible right now.
EDIT: Goddamit, /r/Fallout has gone down now too. Where am I gonna get my Fallout hype now?
EDIT2: I just realized I didn't specify why the loss of AMAs is a big deal. AMAs are a big deal because they're immensely popular, both among the Reddit regulars and among casual users. A celebrity answering questions can bring tens of thousands of posts to the thread, with the corresponding number of pageviews. This increases ad revenue and visibility for Reddit. Some people have gone so far as to say AMAs are Reddit's primary money-maker. They're so important to Reddit, the site made an AMA app for mobile devices before they made a mobile app for Reddit itself. So, basically, by firing Victoria, they're neutering one of their biggest sources of revenue.
EDIT3: This guy explains better than I can. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLo...was_riama_along_with_a_number_of_other_large/
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I guess my question really was that I wonder what he wanted it to say. Unless he is one of those hipsters you mentioned because that thought did cross my mind. I love reading about the real translation of people's kanji tattoos.