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Perhaps some of my early enthusiasm was misplaced. Obviously, as you can see from the quote above, Mac Dictate has absolutely no idea what to do when I talk to my dog.
okay, here’s my first attempt at using a Mac dictate for dictation purposes. I’ve got the dog sitting next to me, snoring, the goofy headset on my head, the sun shining outside, and a bottle of water on my desk. So far it seems to be working okay. What is strange to note is that I actually speak differently than I write. Intellectually, I know we all do this, but hey — I figured I was different. Narcissism!
Well, it apparently carriage returns when I tell it to. Although if I were to actually use the words that I spoke to get the urge to return they wouldn’t be printed I would get a new paragraph. In fact, it tried to do it right there, so I had to speak very slowly to trick it into writing the words.
So that’s it. I’m not speaking particularly differently than I would on the telephone, and it’s a bit strange sitting here looking out the window and seeing the new words appear on the screen. They show up more quickly than I would’ve expected them to based on my previous experience with ViaVoice — a program which, in my opinion, colossally sucked.
Freaky! And I suppose I’ll have to get used all of this auto capitalization. I’m really much happier with my lowercase eyes. Yes, it typed “eyes.”
gunston hall, mason neck, va
it is fitting that the most promising experimental vaccine for malaria has roots at walter reed.
background: on june 28, 19-year-old ronnie white is charged with the june 27 slaying of a PG county police officer. he winds up dead while in police custody on june 29; on june 30, the medical examiner rules it a homicide. righteous community anger to follow.
attorney for the family holds news conference today, and states the following:
[whoever killed white] took it upon themselves to be both the judge, the jury and the executioner.
you got it. math is hard.
so, SCOTUS struck down dc’s ban on handguns last week, in an opinion likely to create ripples across the country as more gun laws are challenged. an interesting article in the wsj law blog discussed the practical implications of the decision in terms of gun-buying in the city, the upshot of which seemed to be “nothing is going to change quickly.” the immediate reaction in the dc metro area seems to have been a flurry of interest among wannabe hand gun owners who are trying to buy guns in md and va.
given this backdrop (and the wsj interview particularly), a new development in the district caught my eye. the wapo reports that a new gun bill is being introduced by phil mendelson today. the liberalization of the city’s gun laws seems to be happening more quickly than i’d expected, but apparently not quickly (or liberally) enough for some.
alan gura, the attorney who argued against the gun ban before the supreme court, is apparently of the opinion that mendelson’s legislation doesn’t go far enough:
After looking at the draft yesterday, Gura said in an e-mail, “It’s a good start, but there are other issues with the code.”
In particular, he is concerned about the city’s decision to continue a ban on semiautomatic weapons, which he said is unconstitutional.
if i were a writer of very bad puns, i’d say gura was setting himself up for a heller ironic ending.
this is the google search trends from ‘04 to ‘08 from florida for the words “surfing,” “apple pie,” and “orgy.”
for a moment i couldn’t figure out why “apple pie” kept spiking each year - until i realized it was likely a recipe search spike for thanksgiving/christmas. “orgy,” on the other hand, had a spike in early 4th quarter ‘06. anyone know if anything was going on around halloween that year?1
(the trends are being used to argue that “contemporary community standards” are much more pro-sex than prosecutors in an obscenity case would have you believe. but what i find interesting, as you can see, are the trends themselves, rather than the relative popularity of the terms.)
hat tip: mr. pogue
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1 a google search on the terms “orgy” “2006″ “halloween” indicates i’m not the only one making that connection. interestingly, a likely culprit from that time seems to be the coverage of the arrest of the guy who is the defendant in the case at hand.
heh. heh heh. heh heh heh.
wanted is awesome.
it’s not a great flick, mind you. it’s ridiculous, absurd, over the top, and has a plot a mole rat could decipher. it runs long and gets redundant. it owes a whole lot to fight club and the fast and the furious.
but it doesn’t try to get all pseudo-deep, introspective and meaningful, like ultraviolet did.
and it’s hella fun to watch.
my friend M from law school had this insight to the heller opinion:
woo, now I can get a gun and shoot birds and puppies!
there’s just something about shooting puppies in our nation’s capitol that feels so patriotic.
yes, folks. that’s our highbrow legal analysis at work. full decision here.
kgf, an occasionally grouchy grammarian (you’ll never catch me saying “i wish i was…” lemme tell you) had this to say about scalia’s dismissal of the “A well regulated Militia…” clause:
the moral of the story is that subordinate clauses are unimportant and should be eliminated from the syntax thereby freeing the next generation from having to learn any grammar beyond text messaging.
LOL.
day-trip on monday to tangier island. pix are better than words.
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