Author: Harold

Transcribing the commentaries, failure #1

So a few weeks ago on John Rogers’ blog he answered a question from a hearing-impaired viewer who wanted to know if the commentaries had been transcribed anywhere since they weren’t captioned on the DVDs.

3) Does anyone know of any place where the commentaries are transcribed or, at least, bits and pieces of them? Since I’m hearing-impaired, the traditional commentary set-up doesn’t work too well for me and I am especially interested in anything regarding Parker and Hardison. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

3.) oof, we’ve had issues with making sure our stuff is accessible to the hearing-impaired before. I’m sorry to say that there are no transcripts of the commentaries. I’ll see if there’s a solve, but I doubt it.

So I decided to give it a try. This is my first attempt, made by recording the audio from the commentary to the pilot, uploading the first fourteen and a half minutes of that to YouTube, and trying my luck with the Machine Transcription. If you’ve got the DVDs you can see how well it … doesn’t work.

i was the pilots the nigerian java uh…

Current Mood: 🙂amused

Anogryms!

I posted this on Google+ and Twitter a couple days ago and thought some folks
here would appreciate it too.

Anogrym – A pseudonym that is an anagram of your legal name.
Try it out: I’m kind of partial to
Akirsch Hodsloth, though I’m sure there are better ones.

When I came up with the word anogrym I searched on Google right away and only
came up with two results, both mis-spellings of anagram.

The important bit of the News of the World scandal…

seems to be Rebekah Brooks’ hair. Seriously, what is the obsession with it?
Why do we keep seeing articles with titles like “Good Hair, Thin and Greasy Ethics” or “Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch’s fiery favorite“? Would articles suggesting a new career endorsing hair care products be showing up if she weren’t a readhead? Or a woman in the male dominated tabloid field?
Whatever the case, the constant referral to Brooks’ hair and the use of fiery, witch, or mane in headlines just serves to make more credible news organizations look like the tabloid they’re criticizing. And frankly, the comparisons to an Irish Setter are just ugly.

Inside look at new Allstate Mayhem ads: Allstate gears up for fresh round of Mayhem with actor Dean Winters – Chicago Tribune: Yeah, Gill loves these commercials.  “Shaky shaky…”

Periodic Table of Storytelling by =ComputerSherpa on deviantART: Almost as bad as Tvtropes.org

Parting Shot: The Many Definitions of Family as Relates to Batman – ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews: Heh.

Kudzu and the Marriage Amendment: Excellent reading for the law of unintended consequences.

Naming Cats is Easy, Naming Blogs is Hard: Programming Metaphors You Need, Part 1 of Birds: When the act of programming isn’t the reason for it.