Also when you have a chance, check out:

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary

but not until after you’ve seen GQ :)

After I’d watched the documentary, I realized there were some clever nuances/cinematography, etc that I had missed the first couple times I’d watched GQ. Ended up watching GQ soon after that once again.

It’s one of those quirky movies that’s worth rewatching from time to time. Like The Princess Bride.

“WHOA THERE DUDE! Geez, didn’t you see that paper cup being blown by the wind?? Totally saved your ass.”

You are in for a treat, friend. Watch it when you have the time.

(Galaxy Quest, as the other poster mentioned.)

I think you’ve just come up with your million dollar idea.

Remember me when you make it big, brother.

Didn’t know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

Proper air-drying is key. Gotta maximize the surface area. If there’s a gentle breeze nearby, all the better.

Living somewhere where you can use a clothesline would fit this most times (ie, if it’s not raining all the time).

You just need to avoid Alderaan places.

True, there’s that :)

And of course there are those times that Alexa completely misunderstands. Neither my wife nor I know how it happened, but some months back we discovered “blow job” on our list.

“Alexa, add bananas”

“Alexa, 3 minutes”

“Alexa, add 30 seconds”

I think that’s just about everything I’ve ever used it for.

Yeah, that works because of the ‘z’ I would say.

I’m having trouble finding another word that rhymes but still uses an ‘s’ and not a ‘z’.

I guess there’s ‘choose,’ but visually it looks closer to ‘loose’. Which would just confuse the people we’re trying to give clarity to.

And lose rhymes with no-

Er.

Let me get back to you on that.

This came up in my feed today:

https://youtu.be/QGqj0_IITHE

Sharing, in case it’s useful at all.

Dunno about “usually”. Our last house was fairly nice, but didn’t have this sink feature. That said, you could walk around and see where the builder went for the cheapest option available.

That said, this kitchen sink feature should literally be the absolute minimum for consideration.

Dude needs to get with the program.

Use a single plate, cup, knife, fork, spoon, lot, pan. Never unbox the rest.

Either that, or just eat over the sink.

Very true, and along the lines of what I was thinking.

But it wouldn’t surprise me if there were a way to establish a voice print. In fact, isn’t that already a thing? Even if it is a little rough around the edges, it wouldn’t surprise me if we were even closer to a higher reliability than thought.

With or without that, consider the copyright infringement suits for someone wanting to protect their song, melody, or whatever. Someone could poke at the 8 keys of a toy piano, and if a music artist’s legal team felt it sounded close enough to the original? The ol’ beatdown-by-seeking-damages trick if not a cease and desist order.

Anyway. If someone has enough money and too much time, they’ll make a case out of anything.

Man, I misunderstood the headline. I thought the AI had created a likeness of her voice, and SJ was going after them for that.

Which begs the question, just how unique are our voices? There’s being distinct, and then there’s being literally one of a kind.

Good luck, we’re all counting on you

I once sent off my favourite tie that had a cool pattern on it to her dry cleaned.

It came back with the pattern partially erased.

A sad day for me.

IKEA meets kintsugi

Guess the next Fasnacht is gonna see some changes, then.