YouTube Transcription FAIL

YouTube’s new, experimental automatic audio transcription still needs a lot of work. It seems to have particular difficulty with non-American accents, or with people speaking quickly – which describes most Joyent engineers! I’m sure it will improve, probably quickly, but we should keep for posterity the bizarre yet poetic discourse of a Brendan Gregg technical presentation… Continue reading YouTube Transcription FAIL

Geek Humor

At Sun we have lots of whiteboard walls where people can (well, could, theoretically) scribble down brilliant ideas while they’re discussing deep technological issues over coffee. What they mostly get used for is trenchant corporate humor, as above (note that the “Clothing Optional Teaming Area” has been so named for a very long time). Recently,… Continue reading Geek Humor

LOLcat: Thiz MY Nose

alternative caption: Did you get that bogey yet? Ruth & Harley. It wasn’t hard to get this picture: Harley puts her paw on Ruth’s nose every time Ruth picks her up. No idea why. You might also like: No related posts.

Rubber Ducky

A little while ago I was wandering around Amazon.com, looking for a mother’s day present for my mom. Bath stuff seemed like a good idea, so I went to the “Health & Beauty” store, which turns out to be Drugstore.com. How could I resist taking a peek at “Sexual Well-Being” (yes, it’s very prominent on… Continue reading Rubber Ducky

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