Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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BTW, there's areally good recent article from Time magazine about Auto-Tune and its impact on modern pop and our expectations of singers.
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Strictly speaking, it's not a vocoder but the Auto-tune, as employed by Cher, T-Pain, Kanye, etc ...
A vocoder just makes the voice sounds robotic. Auto-tune changes the pitch, which is why the newscasters speech has become tuneful (as well as robitic) in the video.
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I want a T-Pain soundalike to punctuate my speech with interjections of "SHAWTAY".
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I had the above mentioned LASIK three years ago, and it's just been the best thing. (Those with cojones can read my account of it here.)
It's the little things that make it worthwhile - not having to worry about glasses steaming up on humid days or getting raindrops on them on rainy days; being able to lie on the couch on my side and watch TV; enjoying the full screen at the movies, not just the parts that lined up with the range of my lenses; and just the simple joy of being able to take in all the depths of a panoramic view.
Curiously enough, Public Address partly led to me getting LASIK. It was a post by Damian of his LASIK experience that made me realise it wasn't as scary as I'd thought.
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The test I had to see if my eyes were suitable for LASIK was fun - I had to look at a ghostly image of Mt Fiji for one, and then a black and white 1950s sci-fi-style black and white spiral for the other test.
A few weeks later, they sliced my cornea with a blade. That was less fun.
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Wow, freelancer in "having an opinion" scandal.
Remember when Pam Corkery lost some broadcasting gig she had for calling the PM, Geoffrey Palmer, a "drongo"? Gasp! (If only there'd been outraged bloggers back in those days.)
Anyone with half a brain could see, looking at @damianchristie 's Twitter feed, that he was just not using it much, not getting into it with the enthusiasm that others do (Nothing wrong with that!), so when he called it a day, it wasn't a great shock, nor did it seem that he was pushed.
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The Fantails were twittering all weekend.
@fantail Just laid an egg.
@fantail Flew around a bit.
@fantail Did a poo on a tourist's head. lol.
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They got Robyn. She used to be so alive, so iconoclastic. Now she talks about making your own Twitter experience.
Twitter is a tool with which I fight teh powerz.
I feel a haiku coming on.
A nervous young fellow named Seamus
said, "Oh Lord! I never wanted to be famous!
But the tweet on my Twittie
about my lol kitty
was Favrd. Oh man, wot a lame-arse :-("Wait, that was a limerick. FAIL.
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Twitter is a waste of time – I love you Dubber, but I don’t care what’s happening at your conference – and I never, ever, ever will care if anyone I know (other than someone who is driving a vehicle I’m in at the time) is feeling sleepy and thinking of heading to bed.
All this tells me is you're following the wrong people on Twitter.
Seriously, if Dubber's conference tweets and your sleepy pals are sending you into a coma, unfollow them. (It's OK - you can still be friends IRL).
Then find someone to follow on Twitter who sets your soul on fire.
You make your own Twitter experience. If yours was really really boring, it's because you've made it that boring all by yourself.
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I mean, counselling.