Video - Katie Lou Samuelson

[Wbbfan1]

 

[Huskee11]

Is that Stephen Hawking narrating?

Pretty knowledgeable for an English theoretical cosmologist.

 

[HardHatGuy#2]

Is that Stephen Hawking narrating?

I'm not sure if it is OK to laugh at that or not.

Would somebody PLEASE tell me if it is socially acceptable to laugh at that comment or not?!?!

 

[Scud49]

These robo voices drive me crazy........Geno....who?? Gawd.....

 

[HGN]

I'm not sure if it is OK to laugh at that or not.

Would somebody PLEASE tell me if it is socially acceptable to laugh at that comment or not?!?!

If one is not sure don't do it.....Err on the side of caution.

 

[HGN]

I watched the clip and the one noticeable thing is Lou is a little more muscular in her arms and shoulders than she was in her HS senior year. A result of Husky training and conditioning.

 

[tomcat]

I lasted through three seconds of audio before shutting the whole thing down. Why do people create these? Do you know how easy it is to do a simple voiceover for a piece of video? Sheesh.

 

[Wilderness]

Yes HHG#2 Okay to laugh. I'm about certain Stephen Hawking would laugh too. Might offer a funny critique of the piece. He's a good man.

 

[JoePgh]

Did you catch the line about "her sisters, Bonnie and Curly"?

 

[MilfordHusky]

These robo voices drive me crazy...Geno....who?? Gawd.....

It is definitely a robo voice.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Did you catch the line about "her sisters, Bonnie and Curly"?

I guess that's better than Bonnie and Clyde.

 

[BigBird]

I lasted through three seconds of audio before shutting the whole thing down. Why do people create these? Do you know how easy it is to do a simple voiceover for a piece of video? Sheesh.

Rather awful, isn't it?

 

[JordyG]

Is that Stephen Hawking narrating?

Pretty knowledgeable for an English theoretical cosmologist.

Sounds more like Siri and Bliri.

 

[RegisteredUconn]

I remember our family's first TV. 10 inch screen. Black and white. Poor resolution. Absolutely horrible television by today's standards.

I remember the IBM XT. 10 MB hard drive (IBM execs said they couldn't imagine anyone every filling up 10 megs of data). DOS operating system. Absolutely horrible personal computer by today's standards.

A journey of ten-thousand miles starts with a single step. I was pretty impressed by the improvements in voice synthenization (sp?) of the video.

 

[Rixxx]

RUc, those were the days.....

 

[tomcat]

I remember our family's first TV. 10 inch screen. Black and white. Poor resolution. Absolutely horrible television by today's standards.

I remember the IBM XT. 10 MB hard drive (IBM execs said they couldn't imagine anyone every filling up 10 megs of data). DOS operating system. Absolutely horrible personal computer by today's standards.

A journey of ten-thousand miles starts with a single step. I was pretty impressed by the improvements in voice synthenization (sp?) of the video.

Yes, and I was one of those who said no one would ever pay all that dough to put a computer in their house. Goes to show what I know, yes? But I'm not talking about the video as a demonstration of the progress we as a society have made with digitized audio. I was commenting on it as a vehicle to communicate messages, which is, I assume, what it was created to do. I found --and it may have been just me -- that the video had problems not only with the fact that the audio was not very "life-like," but significant problems in volume modulation as well.

Anyway, if a significant number of potential listeners turn it off, as I did, because it's too damn much trouble to try to figure out what the computer is saying, it may succeed as an example of technology while failing as a message.

 

[MilfordHusky]

I remember our family's first TV. 10 inch screen. Black and white. Poor resolution. Absolutely horrible television by today's standards.

I remember the IBM XT. 10 MB hard drive (IBM execs said they couldn't imagine anyone every filling up 10 megs of data). DOS operating system. Absolutely horrible personal computer by today's standards.

A journey of ten-thousand miles starts with a single step. I was pretty impressed by the improvements in voice synthenization (sp?) of the video.

Our second TV was a portable by Hotpoint in turquoise and white. Straight out of Leave It to Beaver. Or the Smithsonian.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Is that Stephen Hawking narrating?

Pretty knowledgeable for an English theoretical cosmologist.

 

[RegisteredUconn]

Our second TV was a portable by Hotpoint in turquoise and white. Straight out of Leave It to Beaver. Or the Smithsonian.

And it probably cost more than a 60 inch Ultra Hi Def at Costco right now.

Our first TV started out as a 10 inch floor model. After a couple of years, my dad got my uncle, who worked at GE, to bring home a 12 inch picture tube. About half an hour with a coping saw and viola! We had a 12 inch TV.