I think this guy would highly approve.
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Sing Along With Mitch-ski!
Yes, I, too, have been lured in by the siren song of The Trololololo Guy. But for me it’s not the weird cadaver-like visage of the creepy Russian lip-sync singer, or his astonishing helmet-hair, or the late-1970s video production values…it’s that damned song! It’s an unstoppable earworm that keeps playing in my head over and over and over, and every time I run into another mashup of it I have to stop and listen to the whole thing.
Well, at least NOW I can sing along thanks to this captioned version on YouTube. I’d hate to think I was singing “trolololololo” when I was supposed to be singing “ya ya ya ya yeh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaiieeeeeeeeee!”
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Hail To Purple, Hail To White
It makes me proud to be a Northwestern University double-alum (S85, G89) and former assistant editor of the defunct campus humor magazine, “Rubber Teeth”, to know that the legacy of wild-and-crazy stunts lives on in the halls along Sheridan Road:
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Ebert Speaks
The recent Esquire article about Roger Ebert made mention of an effort on the part of a software developer to create a voice synthesizer using actual audio clips of Ebert’s own speaking voice to make it sound more like his natural voice. Ebert is appearing on Oprah Winfrey’s show this week and was expected to debut the software on the show, but he has scooped her by posting this little video clip online:
It isn’t *quite* there, but you can definitely hear characteristics of his voice that sound familiar. Bravo, Roger.
ADDENDUM: TechCrunch has a post with quite a bit of information about how this software was developed.
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Oh Four Tuna!
You’ve heard Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna” from Carmina Burana dozens, if not hundreds, of times, but you can never seem to figure out what the hell they’re singing. Well, ask no more!
Er…ahem…well, maybe this is more likely:
You know that Latin…it’s all Greek to most people anyway.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT.
Since you cannot click a [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and [...]
Thanks to Shelley for alerting me that last night’s edition of the local TV newsmagzine “Chronicle” featured Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, whom I blogged about recently in conjunction with the various atheist billboard campaigns around the country. I was busy helping Charlotte do her homework, so I didn’t watch the show, but WCVB’s [...]
