Thursday, July 12, 2012

Daisy Bell




Daisy, Daisy / Give me your answer, do. / I'm half crazy / all for the love of you


In 1961 an IBM 704 became the first computer to sing, in a demonstration of Bell Labs' newly invented speech synthesis -- and the song was "Daisy Bell".





When Hal 9000 is being shut down in the movie "2001 a Space Odyssey, it sings the song taught to it by it's creator....



HAL=IBM
HI(jkl...)
AB(cde...)
LM (nop...)











Tuesday, July 10, 2012

420 Page Views

Blog blog, the blog.
(a portmanteau of the term web log)
A multimedia journal.
We Blog




Joe Bloggs (c.1969) was British slang for "any hypothetical person" (cf. U.S. equivalent Joe Blow); earlier blog meant "a servant boy" in one of the college houses (c.1860, see Partridge, who describes this use as a "perversion of bloke"), and, as a verb, "to defeat" in schoolboy slang. The Blogger online publishing service was launched in 1999.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=blog

The names "Joe Bloggs" and "Fred Bloggs" are commonly used as placeholder names in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, for teaching, programming, and other thinking and writing.
Other placeholders (e.g. in advertisements for store cards/credit cards) sometimes used are Mr/Mrs A Smith or A. N. Other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bloggs

A. N. Other is either a placeholder name or a pseudonym used by a person wishing to remain anonymous, the former being more commonly encountered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._N._Other





Sunday, July 8, 2012

I am the Ego Man

In the film "Yellow Submarine" we find that the mythical Lonely Hearts Club Band is merely the alter ego(s) of the beatle(s).  (0:50)
http://www.cornel1801.com/1/y/YELLOW-SUBMARINE/9story.html
see the quote
"
I'm led to believe that you're an extension

of my personality.


- Yes, I'm the alter-ego man.

- And I'm the ego man, goo goo, g'joob.
Script


Songwriters: LENNON, JOHN / MCCARTNEY, PAUL
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

Mister city policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/beatles/i+am+the+walrus_10026521.html ]
Yellow mother custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

Sitting in an english garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the english rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob.

Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don't you think the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the eiffel tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking edgar allan poe.
I am the eggman, They are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob goo

Semolina
Pilchard

Stupid Bloody Tuesday is a term used to refer to certain events which occurred on a Tuesday: