The Boy: “You do it.”
Me: “No, you do it.”
The Boy: “You do it.”
Me: “No, you do it.”
The Boy: “Wait, I have a plan.”
Me: “What’s the plan?”
The Boy: “You do it.”
Everything you need to know about the mind of a 3-year old, explained in one sentence
The Boy, hopping from foot to foot and observing how the moon seems to move:
“I’m controlling the moon!”
Adding punctuation with Siri speech-to-text on the iPhone 4S
I picked up my iPhone 4 yesterday and one of the coolest new features is the Siri personal assistant. A lot has been written about this already, but I discovered something cool about the speech to text feature last night that I thought I would share.
Siri lets you compose Twitter updates, Facebook updates, notes, text messages and even blog posts “I’m using it to write this” by voice. When I first tried it, I was disappointed to see that it didn’t include any punctuation. As a writer and former English major, that bothered me.
Then I tried the approach that I’ve learned to use with all Apple products; I tried the simplest thing I could think of.
To add punctuation, just speak the punctuation you want to add.
To compose that sentence, I said “To add punctuation comma just speak the punctuation you want to add period.”
It’s an extremely elegant solution, and one that has allowed me to write this “properly punctuated” blog post in about three minutes, almost exclusively using my voice.
No wonder they’re so stroppy and irritable
“While playing with Lego Star Wars figures”
“That’s his lunchbox.”
“Oh, yeah? What would a storm trooper eat for lunch?”
“Jalapeños.”
The lying begins
“Is this juice?”
“It’s water.”
“I want juice.”
“Okay, it’s juice.”
“What kind of juice?”
“Cloud juice.”
A day in the life, via Twitter
Last week, Jamie Sandford began the day with what I’ll call a “metatweet.” I responded. It took off. Here’s how our conversation evolved throughout the course of the day:
@jsandford: <something about coffee>
@davidbthomas: <something about Mondays>
@jsandford: <inspirational way-too-much vim and vigor tackling-the-week tweet>
@davidbthomas: <excessive use of motivational hashtags>
@jsandford: <ending of day tweet>
@davidbthomas: <expressing an interest in a particular foodstuff and/or alcoholic beverage>
@jsandford: <general agreement and/or countering with alternative item which is more complex or uses rarer ingredients>
@davidbthomas: <enthusiastic agreement, onomatopoeia representing consumption of said foodstuff>
@jsandford: <comment related to upcoming TV show, hashtagged>
@davidbthomas: <parenting anecdote>
@jsandford: <emphatic sport event comment!>
@davidbthomas: <support for the opposing team expressed as ridicule of your character>
@jsandford: <denigration of your team based on menial historical statistic relating to prior triumph in the series>
@davidbthomas: <rejection of the importance of your quoted statistic, followed by equally trivial statistic from earlier contest>
@jsandford: <commentary on the difficult nature of putting small descendants to bed and/or humorous pre-slumber saying>