Classics Corner #16: Speech Recognition

I was searching around the blog and I happened to rediscover Paul's entry on his test of Window XP's speech recognition. It's even funnier if you read it out loud, as if you are trying to use the software yourself. Personally I found it among the most hilarious of our entries, and so far it's comedy has stood the test of time (of two years).

It's harvest time!

Water in a hurry.

A lot of water.

The House that Frank Lloyd Wright Built

Paul tipped me off that the only house that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Nebraska is right here in McCook. It's at 602 Norris Ave. if you want to Google Map it.


There are no markings on it that says "Yo. The same guy who built the Guggenheim built this place." However I'm fairly confident I snapped photos of the correct house because it was by far the least boring house at that particular intersection.

Even the garage is nice.

There are still unanswered questions. Questions like "How exactly did Paul find out about this house anyway?"

Another question that comes to my mind is "How did this guy manage to build 532 homes?" His first house was 1889. During this time he worked under Louis Sullivan (considered the creator of the modern skyscraper) but Frank apparently thought he wasn't getting enough work, as it was later discovered that he was building additional buildings privately, without going through the firm.

His last design was in the year of his death, 1959. That means across the 70 years of his career, he was averaging about 7.6 homes a year, or a little over 1 building every 1.5 months. And these aren't Podunk cookie-cutter-type mobile homes, each was a unique work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright, I salute you!

For Jon

Hey Jon, I bought some of those really spicy chips you really liked, I'll have to send them to you so give me your address some time in the near future (but I wouldn't post it on here).

Shayne's Link-Happy Post #257

Since I have nothing creative of my own to say, here is a collection of someone else's funniness.

• First, we have a comic strip for all you rabbit lovers out there.
• Next up is a collection of Calvin's dad's answers to common kids' questions like why does the sun set. (Too bad the guy didn't just show the actual comics themselves. Man alive!)
• Last but not least is a technical discussion of computer device communication. Thanks to my comp sci background I was able to understand a little bit of what was going on at least.

Hey, I still have some time. How about a rant?

Thanks to Wikipedia, I no longer need to use my brain for knowledge. It has nearly everything I already know. Ever since I came to this realization I now only keep a list of words in my brain that will point me to the various pages of my hive mind knowledge.

And look at me now! I have many more free synapses for use. I can now just focus on using my mind only for creativity purposes.... hey, wait, that sounds familiar. What was it I said at the beginning of the post again? Oh well.