@ataraxite Talk / record / dictation software. @JohnBirmingham has apparently had good experiences. These sentences are related.
Beseiged by moths.
@VickiWoodward Thanks. I have a couple days yet to be filled with work stuff, so I’m hoping to balance that out.
RT: New blog post: “Visiting Perth for DigitalMe (and other diversions)” on 27 April. arseh.at/td6
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 94: Identity, privacy, fog and a lyrebird” stilgherrian.com/weekly-wrap/we…
Yay. Main interview edited.. Audio grabs selected, prepared. Script written. I’m set to record that script and do the final mix… tomorrow.
@sylmobile I understand, but “Patch Monday” is for @zdnetaustralia and must be G-rated. No sucking of the wobblies for this podcast!
@treespiepurr Thank you, yes, @sylmobile’s research and the core edit having gone smoothly have significantly regruntled me.
@sylmobile Thanks, that clip from “Top Gear” actually has an excellent stand-alone sequence that’s perfect for the job. Lovely.
Disgruntled. Editing, but disgruntled.
Right. What shall now do is the less-interesting but vital work of editing the core interview. Once that’s done I’ll play with soundbites.
Hmmm… I’ve burnt more than an hour on this now. Ir’sonly for a grab for the first 30 seconds of the podcast. I should kill this idea now.
@ibbers @sylmobile That, and this is just meant to be a fast scene-setter, not a major point. I think I’ve chosen a poor path.
Ah, but this might work. A voice-controlled elevator trying to understand the Scots accent. youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2Vn…
@michaelneale Yep, an interesting video. But without seeing the results of the voice commands it’s not going to work. :/ This is hard!
@sylmobile Any specific scenes in Hitchhikers?
Actually, @smperris, the “Enhance!” scene in “Bladerunner” would work for setting the scene as an unrealistic expectation. Ta.
Ta for those tips, @The_Bigfella @garthk, they MAY work if I can find the snippets qickly enough.
It’s going to be difficult to find grabs that are brief, self-contained (i.e. work with an introduction), and work in audio only. Hmmm…
Indeed, @S7U, HAL vs Dave in “2001: A Space Odyssey” is it. Kinda. But I’m thinking there must be others? tvtropes.org here I come.
But I really need quick snippets. A command interpreted overly-literally, or misinterpreted to a similar-sounding but wrong command.
So far we have “Electric Dreams”, Siri spoof video, AAMI TVCs, Holly vs Rimmer in “Red Dwarf”, Scotty talks to a mouse in “Star Trek IV”…
I should probably have added that they’ll need to be easy-to-find snippets on a Sunday night…
@BaneAu Ah no I’m after some of said examples to use as references, not a judgement on the concept. :)
I don’t know “Electric Dreams”, @artywah, what’s the relevant trope or scene?
So, film/TV examples of human-computer interaction by voice that go terribly wrong. Serious or comedy. Your nominations are…?
@ForsakenDAemon Indeed. Next time we’re in the same city we should arrange a suitably commiserative beverage. [nods]
@ForsakenDAemon While technically correct and culturally apropos, your tweets did indicate that you need to get out more. As, erm, did mine.
@mpesce @ataraxite You just can’t give up the cultural imperialism, can you?
@mrgrumpystephen I’m really far too important to tweet about what I’m eating, Sir.
@mpesce @ataraxite I kinda scratched at APL for a couple weekends when I was 16, but it ran slower than the BASIC on that IBM System/360…
@mpesce @ataraxite I find it disturbing that I both felt the urge to do that and knew how. And for my next trick… SNOBOL!
@mpesce @ataraxite Now you know I’m going to have to correct your Lisp here, don’t you: (not (be you serious))
Things remaining to do today: Cook dinner; complete some “Patch Monday” podcast editing; cause further denouement of the wine supply, maybe.
Hey I did computing science too, @R_Chirgwin, and three decades ago at that. I can out-evangelise any of these Johnny-come-lately coders!
@bunjaree I’m rather pleased with that photo, given it’s with a compact camera from inside the house and enlarged to buggery!
Oh Lisp is The Answer, yes, @ataraxite. In the sense that the heat death of the universe is The Answer. It is a glorious thing. @mpesce
That seems to be the unquestioned assumption. “I helped you a little bit, so I too get to look at all your data forever.” /cc @steven_noble
The problem with Seesmic plug-ins, @steven_noble, is Seesmic data mining all your things. Insidiousness as a software architecture.
MT @steven_noble: Official Twitter app is scriptable [with AppleScript]. [Aha! That’s more it. I’d ignored that client because just no.]
RT @steven_noble: Seesmic takes plugins marketplace.seesmic.com [That’s more for pre-built plug-ins, perhaps, but yes that sort of thing. Ta.]
No, @ataraxite, Emacs is not the answer. To anything. There is no question to which Emacs is the answer. And there never will be. @mpesce
Yes, @mpesce, exactly so you could make Twitter do things.
Has anyone ever thought of writing an OS X Twitter client with a plug-in architecture or scripting language? Is AppleScript still done?
@amandakendle I suspect the problem with that plan is that if you try to see the smut it ends up being invisible. Maybe. Possibly.
Well at least this’ll get all that Queensland election arsehattery off the news tonight…
@amandakendle There must be some workable strategy. Perhaps explaining the butt plugs with the aid of plush toys and stage misdirection?
@richardtuffin “Police service revolver”? Don’t @nswpolice all have Glock’s famous Plast-o-matic these days? Showing your age…
@amandakendle Hey sure, a quick seminar on butt plugs for all the kiddies sounds perfect.
@enquerre @jkerrison That seems a tad triumphalist, though I’d b happey to say it’s AN edge. “Leading” assumes direction, progress, goal.
@grantshow I can confirm that three days ago I may well have been on Sussex St.
Sometimes goats need to give advice to cats. [nods]
@grantshow Well that’s just irresponsible. You’re missing a valuable opportunity there.
@grantshow Yeah, it’s probably better just to make some more jokes aboiut the dead guy. Still warm doesn’t always equal too soon. ;)
@grantshow @jkerrison And the police media release just arrived. “Man… sustained gunshot wound… later died at the scene.”
@SnarkyPlatypus Yes, whenever I need advice on complex financial matters I always turn to Colleen McCollough. As we all should.
@domknight I agree, Janetter is a complex beast, but then that’s probably what I happen to need. Very different tools!
@domknight I saw that YoruFukurou wasn’t quite as good with multiple accounts, so I’m going with Janetter for now. Also free in App Store.
So @Janetter_jp looks like it might be adequate. There’s a nice thing.
@frogworth Ah yes, I see what you mean about the columns with YoruFukurou. Modal view? See this account OR that account? Ermph!
@leslienassar I am confident that I can do nearly half those things successfully.
@leslienassar Note how I imagine that I’m smart enough to hack a cryptographically-secure authentication system. Dunning-Kruger Effect FTW!
@leslienassar I wonder if I could somehow use the new TweetDeck to generate a token to install into the old TweetDeck…
@frogworth Lack of custom URL-shortening ain’t a show-stopper. Ir’s more the annoyance of frequent changes. I tend to change tools rarely.
@frogworth Ah. YoruFukurou has your choice of URL shortening. And filtering by regexp. I’m kinda getting moist.
@leslienassar Ah yes. I now seem to have some XAuth-sensitive neuron going “Hey! I knew that!”
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: @middleclassgirl Waxing crescent. [Is that some Islamic thing for ladies?]
@leslienassar So pre-existing accounts stayed working ‘cos they then got tokens, I guess? [shrugs] It’s all black magic.
@leslienassar The AIR beast is asking for a username/password, and I seem to recall that all got turned off? No sign of OAuth in it.
I shall also check out @Janetter_jp, thank you @frogworth! But it had better cope with arseh.at … /cc @Tuna @joshrowe
Ah well, @ocean, “good” is relative to a person’s requirements. At time of last choosing, TweetDeck was best for my needs. YMMV. /cc @Tuna
Some folks been telling me that YoruFukurou is a good OS X TweetDeck replacement, @Tuna @joshrowe arseh.at/tde
I am suspecting that’s because Twitter went all OAuth and the old TweetDeck didn’t work that way. O NOES, I MAY BE IN TWITTER CLIENT HELL!
Bother. I can’t seem to add @bunjaree into my old AIR-based TweetDeck v0.38.2 because… dunno. Authentication change? @leslienassar?
I couldn’t agree more, @RealNickHodge, and as a result I certainly feel like a man this afternoon. #science
Quite true, @RealNickHodge. Also stacking firewood, operating trailer couplings, and using bricks as safety equipment. #science
RT @RealNickHodge: It’s a #science fact that the use of chainsaws increase testosterone levels.
Well I feel quite butch after all that!
Following all safety precautions.
RT @bunjaree: Now that guests have departed, we can fire up the chainsaw to deal with a fallen tree branch near Tea Tree Cottage. ^S
So @sylmobile, someone just suggested to me that Clive Palmer’s porn star name could be “Friar Fuck” to go with The Mad Monk.
Posting a question in the support forums. Yes, this will help.
@NSWRFS Thanks. I was just wondering which was best for our new @bunjaree account to follow for bushfire info. Followed you shall be.
@sylmobile @R_Chirgwin Nothing bottish about @bunjaree yet, but I was toying with taking on a little project to freshen my coding skillz…
Of course, all this SMEGification has done precisely nothing to solve the WordPress / Dreamhost caching problem I was meant to deal with.
What’s the difference in focus between @NSWRFS and @rfsmedia?
@SnarkyPlatypus @R_Chirgwin Trying to analyse this within traditional “sociological” or “biological” frameworks is a fool’s errand.
RT @bunjaree: @R_Chirgwin @stilgherrian Hello, Mummy! Hello, Daddy! I love you. [This is also possibly a bit wrong.]
RT @sylmobile: What would Clive Palmer’s porn star name be? [Clive Palmer, obviously.]
Some of the information I am now receiving is both disturbing and potentially damaging to delicate membranes.
You are not helping, @atirere @feed_the_chooks @SnarkyPlatypus. Anyway, was/is Bob Ellis a Catholic?
Twitter seriously needs to re-examine the way they’ve structured OAuth permissions. It seems purpose-built for account-hijacking spammers.
Wow, when you create a new Twitter account some seedy-looking bearded bloke says he’s your teacher and offers to show you around. Creepy.
@leslienassar Thank you. I do my best work in bed.
Deleting all the things.
@thatjeffsmith Yeah, the poor thing. It was a MySQL database, never had the chance to grow into a proper Oracle, right? ;)
Pressing the button marked “Delete DB” and feeling well pleased with the result.
First things first, though. I shall tidy up all the old crap left on the web server. The command “rm -rf ~/.” is how it’s done, right?
WordPress on Dreamhost, has it got some MySQl lookup caching added transparently, I wonder? It would explain what I’m seeing.
Cleaning up a messy web server is a task well suited to a Sunday morning.
@jeamland SMEGFest West 2012 can’t possibly suck, because I’m on the speaking program.
I must admit, I’m tempted to start referring to that event as “SMEGFest West 2012”, but that might be considered disrespectful.
New blog post: “Visiting Perth for DigitalMe (and other diversions)” on 27 April. arseh.at/td6
A report on trans-Tasman rivalry over Vegemite? Well, that’s original and insightful. A Walkley awaits.
Are you a stay-at-home dad, working from home and sharing the primary-care role? Here be the “Dads in the House” blog. arseh.at/td5
It’s on ABC Radio National, @trib. “Correspondents Report”. That self-conscious RN presentation style that I thought we had drugs for now.
Sun plan, unordered, gently paced: Figure out weird website glitch; produce “Patch Monday” podcast; 2 x blog posts; plan week ahead; relax.
“Journey”! [slap!]
This woman needs to unclench.
Um big words.
“Reverbations”?
Oh. Sunday.
@franksting Also what? /cc @SnarkyPlatypus
@SnarkyPlatypus For example, Germaine Greer. Also, Bob Ellis.