Sunday, April 30, 2006

Accessible pedestrian signals (APS)

Accessible Pedestrian Signals is a very official sounding name for talking street signals. In my area the city has begun installing these devices across busy intersections. This is all very cool but what you might not realize is that each crossing button has a speaker attached produces the voice part of the system and each speaker pings really loudly on a regular rhythm. I could hear them inside my car with windows up, air on and the stereo playing nirvana “at a reasonable volume”.
This APS system sounds like a misbehaving little kid smacking two hollow metal pipes together. Or rather 8 misbehaving little kids smacking two hollow metal pipes together. I just what to set the whole dam thing on fire.


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Thursday, April 20, 2006

mak vay for Euro-English

Option one: They lost WWII so they are going trick us in to speaking German.

Option two: Teachers hounded me for years and all the wile I was writing in Euro-English. Dam them for Korrecting my Euro-English writing skills.

I am not sure how I feel on this one. However a quick look at myspace and I think most people under the age on 30 speak Euro-English fluently.

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=5086

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