March 9, 2010
Here's me reading a thing that I wrote
PenTales is something I have difficulty explaining, so you can read their about page, because they'll do a better job of it than I would. But you don't have to entirely understand what it is to hear me read a short story I wrote for their latest event:
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NY Times on Google's translation service
Google's Computer Might Betters Translation Tool
In the article, they admitted that the system "still needed improvement," which any user of Translation Party could have already told you. Translation Party, you see, uses Google Translate to do all of the translation legwork behind the scenes.
Google actually made significant improvements to their system just a few weeks after Translation Party launched, breaking (or fixing, depending on how you look at it) some of our favorite translations. To remedy this, we looked into different, more obscure languages that Google might not have improved as much. After a little testing, we realized that Japanese was still our best bet. We even looked into Microsoft's translation API's. If there's anyone who could really botch a translation up it's Microsoft, right? Unfortunately, in every example we tried, Microsoft did a better job than Google, and most parties ended up with slightly mangled, but still somewhat sensical English. Leave it to Microsoft to do something right when you're counting on them to screw up.
Anyway, a person might argue that it's intellectually dishonest to purposely use the worse API, and that choosing the better one might better illustrate the irreconcilable differences between the two languages. But that person clearly doesn't like to party.
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February 24, 2010
Hey la, hey la, Question Party is back
Question Party, after taking a long hiatus due to lack of hosting, is now back online and just as incomprehensible as ever.
Here's a chart detailing Question Party usage over the years. That spike near the end was due to occasionally telling people about it in the Translation Party success message.
I like making charts.
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February 22, 2010
Carlough Bros: Three Way
The original title was Carlough Bros: Online, but I thought people would be more inclined to watch it if they thought they were going to get something vaguely pornographic.
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February 8, 2010
Two Girls
Part of a continuing series where I play a guy who's mildly perverted and easily annoyed.
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January 26, 2010
This post will make absolutely no sense.
The Insane Clown Posse made a western.
That makes absolutely no sense.
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January 22, 2010
diogenesclub.net is back in google, so you can stop using bing now.
After a movable type upgrade and a lot of carping on google's webmaster forums, the club is being indexed by google again. I'm not really sure what did it, but hopefully we'll be getting some random commenters back here that I can make fun of soon.
(Previously: Google has stopped indexing this site past the home page)
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January 19, 2010
That Sherlock Holmes Red Bull ad is poorly researched, even for a Red Bull ad.
Sherlock Holmes drinks coffee, not tea.
It should be noted that this ad is apparently not licensed by the Doyle estate. Of course, neither is redheadedleague.com or diogenesclub.net, but I won't tell if you don't.
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January 8, 2010
This one's for all you Pokemon lovers out there
See, I had this hilarious idea. There's this pokemon named Abomasnow. You know, like an abominable snowman. It looks like this:
I thought, wouldn't it be hilarious if I made an Obama-snow? I could photoshop Obama's head on the Abomasnow. It would be awesome. I'd be an internet legend. Of course, before I started this incredible project, I googled Obamasnow. Sure enough, someone had beaten me to the punch:
I was heartbroken. But surely there was another pokemon that I could paste a celebrity face onto. I racked my brain. There's this other pokemon called Kangaskhan. It looks like this:
Add a celebrity that I'm not entirely sure what she's famous for but am still relatively sure she's a celebrity and behold:
Kim Kardashian + Kangaskhan = Kim Kardaskhan
You're welcome, internet.
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December 24, 2009
Further proof that I am, in fact, not a snuggie model.
If you didn't believe me the first time, here's more proof:
This is a picture of me and Allen Salkin, writer of the snuggie article for the New York Times, (a paper which I have sonned numerous times) at a recent PenTales event.
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