Ella and Jake, this is for you:

Although I am sure I would not understand any of the speech analysis that goes into it, the implications of the recent research by the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, at the Russian Academy of Sciences are quite clear: speech recognition is advancing nicely.

The article on Science Blog says that developers have found a way to get their software to filter out parts of the sound that are irrelevant to the meaning of the words, such as fluctuations from emotion or distortion from whispering. What this means is that the program can maintain a much smaller database, since it doesn’t have to allow for so many variations per word.

via Future Feeder

…that my mother reads my blog. So that’s it, folks, I’m afraid there will be no more stories of anal sex and cocaine binges. I’ve already taken down the articles about all my piercings and that crazy week in Provincetown (remember that, Jeremy?).

I’m moving on Wednesday. That’s a good thing, because I currently live in a shithole and the new place is much more pleasant. Thing is, this involves a whole lot of packing and throwing shit out and arranging stuff. I’m hiring a couple of movers, which should speed things along, but I still have to take time off work to pack. Bleh. Fuckin’ awful.

I’m really looking forward to the time when I will have a home I live in for many years, not having to move every couple of years. Fuck.