AllGuinness

A few days ago I new product called Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 its primary purpose is to tell me tight more quickly and not a very get tighter and is always held me back from doing as much riding is I’d like to hopefully with this product a young to tie more and more… my voice and attempts to write I say this what its new it doesn’t do such a great job at the continually train in train it to do better and better but as of right now is still woefully inadequate is not too bad I sure to get better I have to keep correcting the mistakes and occasionally I will read a paragraph or two to it in the learns how I talk it’s better than I believe this one totally unedited so you can see how it is the very beginning before its well-trained probably as a result the single peer more like gibberish than anything else

When they I do wonder about is whether or not this will have a serious impact on my writing style is one thing when you’re sitting down and typing interests move slowly and think about what you’re going to say earliest I slow typist in all but now with this product I go ahead and ramble lawn and on and on and who knows will come out there know how long it will be before the product is to my voice enough where the errors are so few that it makes it worthwhile but as you can tell now I have to go back to correct quite a few things in just these couple paragraphs it really throws me off because it lags behind them and talking so if I look at the screen and talk at the same time my continual impulse is to slow down to let the computer try to catch up the think that this only makes it worse for the computer it seems that when I just stare off into the distance and proceed ahead does a better job keeping up with me naturally it’s still not perfect

I think I forgot to turn on the autopunctuation of try to do it now. So hopefully it will be fixed early to to punctuation some places and sentences. I think it’ll be a little but amusing to read this one to I’m all done with this paragraph. It certainly is a very close as of yet it is a miracle of modern science. Even know if it’s faster for me right now. I think maybe I could type this. If you include all the time it takes for the corrections, not as quick as I could say it and then corrected now overlays the next couple weeks that of the all clear that alien posts more frequently. I don’t know that in not.

That’s all for now.

I saw Living in TV Land with Adam West last night. He was always a little odd, but I think in the last few years with Family guy and such, he has flipped his lid. If you get the chance, I suggest this show. It is surreal. It is like a reality show, kind of, but the whole thing is clearly scripted, and it seems that they aren’t trying to hide the fact that it is. Plus, it’s just odd. In it he has a fishing contest with this radio personality in a local pond in L.A. and if Adam West loses he has to wear the old Batman cowl for a picture. There is also a scene where he tries to fish in the pond in Julie Newmar’s backyard.

Freak. Still cool though.

Another person has died after riding the Mission: Space ride at Epcot in Disney World. She was dizzy and sick after getting off the ride and died at the hospital later. Disney has shot the ride, but it will reopen after tests show that it is functioning properly.

I think that there is likely to be a little fear about this event, but it is important to keep the fact in perspective that millions visit Disney parks each year, and very few of them actually die there. You have to figure that people are bound to die there just by chance. Roller coasters and other thrill rides are intense, and meant to scare a little. You have to figure that this will be enough to kill some people with existing health problems.

Still too bad that someone has to die while trying to have fun.

I never really watched Oprah. I usually find it a little dull. Yesterday however, I actually caught some of the show. I thought Kevin Johnson was going to be on (it turns out he will be on part two of the show today). He was a professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns (who beat the Kings last night, by the way), and went to my high school several years before I was there. My father taught at the school, and I used to go to the basketball games there in my youth, so I remember him playing then. He is a nice guy, and basically a good person. With some of the proceeds from his career, he started the St. Hope Foundation. It is an organization that runs charter schools in the Sacramento area, focusing on a primarily black, and somewhat poor area known as Oak Park. St. Hope has taken over Sacramento High school in the last couple of years, and turned it into a charter school.

I think that he genuinely cares about students and wants to help them, though I think some of the ways that the organization has gone about this are flawed. I think it is sad that to make Sac High successful, they had to destroy the school as it was and create it in a totally new image. I don’t know where most of the kids from east Sacramento and downtown go to high-school now, but I doubt it is Sac High.

I still wanted to hear what he had to say, and may still try and catch him on the show today. That’s not what I came to talk about today.

Firstly, let me just say that Anderson Cooper wins the jack-off blowhard of the year award (held until recently by me. The link is to the Anderson Cooper fan club. I was going to join, but all my time is taken up by the jam shit in my ears club). What an asshole he is. Like the kind of person who gets beat up at the bar just for being a tool. “How does it make you feel when you see your school in this condition?” Hey Cooper, why don’t you go eat a bowl of dick? (I’m paraphrasing here, I didn’t actually write down what he said.)

Oprah herself is in the running for the award. I knew that she was influential, but I never realized how much of that influence was of her own design. she would read some quote from some supposed expert like, “schools across the country are worse in preparing students for college than they were ten years ago,” and then add at the end, to the camera “and that’s true!” How the fuck would you know? The problem is that her adding that it is true, and not even saying “I believe” or some such, is likely to actually convince the mindless masses that it is a fact. I’m not saying that this is or isn’t a fact in this case, but I am saying that either way the statement that it is is absurd.

It is actually sunny right now, but it will be short lived. The rain is expected to return this evening, and maybe continue for the better part of the next five days or so. It’s really getting depressing.

It’s global warming or just a bad weather year, but either way, it sucks. In Sacramento we are always supposed to have early springs and warm weather. We are about ten degrees below average here, for the last month or so, and there were twenty days of rain in March, a record. It is dreary.

The Sacramento Bee has some suggestions on beating the blues. They include eating right and exercising. No shit?