The Zereps

This is pretty interesting. And here I thought in the last 20 years there have been no major breakthroughs in speech synthesis. But long gone are the days of Dr. Sbaitso and Max Headroom–enter AT&T Natural Voice. Try it out, it’s pretty cool. You just type anything you want into the text box and it will convert it to speech as a .wav file that you can listen to. They even have Spanish, German, and U.K. English accents. P.S. If anybody can find a link to a Max Headroom video (such as the infamous ‘New Coke’ Commercial) please post a comment or email me. Thanks! -ep

::bling bling:: :clink clink:: ::boing boing:: ::bling bling:: ::boop boop boop:: ::beep beep beep::

eric’s playing sonic the hedgehog on our grand spankin’ new sega genesis. and he’s playing the music/soundeffects *way* too loudly. geez…the music makes me want to swallow a bottle of ibuprofin. now he’s starting shenobi 3.

it’s the weekend! very exciting. we went to see our neighboor dj last night at a cute little ‘boho style’ cafe/bar. it was fun. today i think we’re going to swing by freezepeach for some much-needed caffinated beverages. and then maybe do something else followed by something else and then possibly dinner? we’ll see…

oohh…we saw a preview for another movie to add to the list of ‘movies we’re willing to pay money to see.’ it’s called wallace and gromit: the curse of the were-rabbit and looks pretty cute. that’s two good clay animation movies coming out this fall. corpse bride is the other one, just in case you missed the super-cool snipits on tv, movies, and billboards. i am in eager anticipation to see it.

oh! i would like to say happy late birthday to my brother, shawn, too. good ‘ol number two zero. i hope you got your card on time! ::bow wow:: [jabba says happy birthday too since we forgot to include him in the card signing]

i’m hungry!!!

that draws people to this city. I thought the worst of it was over, but today was another insanely hot and humid day in New York City–topping off at 97% humidity.

I want to write more, but unfortunately, I’ve been on the computer all day long and my wrists are starting to feel sore. Hasta Manana.

i just want to say thanks to eric’s aunt winona for the scrumdiddlyumptious recipe for perogies. they were a big hit here. i made a double recipe so i could slice up some pasta noodles with the extra dough. my dough was a bit tough since it was the first time i’ve made pasta, but things worked out very well. 🙂 i think next time i’ll put some fat-free sour cream on mine, just ’cause i like it. thanks winona for the recipe! 🙂 i’ll definately make them again sometime.

omg…it’s so muggy here today because of that darn hurricane whatever-her-name-is. PLEASE COME AUTUMN!!!

ooooohhhhh…..i am eagerly anticipating halloween this year, and not just because i love halloween, but because i have a doggy now! here’s the costume i would like to get for jabba, it’s called ‘the suit’. isn’t it too cute? we watched that movie last night, too, actually. jabba is much cuter than frank. frank the pug from mib2 is an older dog. you can tell because he has grey and white facial hair. hehe 🙂 speaking of facial hair, we need to give jabba a ‘shave.’ he’s getting a 5 o’clock shadow with all those whiskers. but he’s not a big fan of personal hygene, believe me.

maybe i’ll be pathetic enough to take a picture of jabba in the bathtub next time, like parents who shamelessly snap pics of their toddlers splashing around in the tub. next thing you know i’ll need a minivan and be living in suburbia. i’ll suddenly start getting my nails done every week, spend hours at the salon, buy only expensive department store makeup, go to day spas, shop exclusively from ‘whole foods,’ and spend massive amounts of money on therapy, vitamins, botox, and moisturizer made from cut-off foreskins. -shiver- well, the botox doesn’t sound too bad….

i guess i’m already pretty bad since i bake birthday cakes for my dog and dress him up. 😉

OK. First off.. I love WordPress (the blogging software used to make this site.) It’s so easy to use, there are so many plugins, and it completely customizable. So, I spent some time this evening and added some of my favorite plugins to our blog. Most of them have ended up on the sidebar to the right of the blog entries. New things you will see include:

-AIM Status – Shows if Candice or I are online on AIM
-Simpson Quote – Random Simpsons Quote (OK, I know it’s lame…)
-Live Chat – This one is cool. It allows any simultaneous viewers of the site to chat! Try it out..
-Users Online – This one shows up under the chat section and tells you if anybody else is looking at the site the same time you are.

As if it weren’t great enough being able to read our blog with a full-fledged web browser running on a full-fledged computer system… Now (if you’re really bored) you can read our blog from your very own WAP (i.e. Internet-enabled) cell phone. Just point your little micro-browser to:

http://www.ericperez.com/wp-wap.php

Wow!

Here is a google map of my work: Map

Ya know, just in case you wanted to stop by and say “Hi” or something.. 😉

martha stewart is back on tv! and i can actually watch it! very momentous. 😉 the show was pretty good. ‘brea’ from desperate housewives was on, which was pretty funny since marcia cross (‘brea’) is the anti-brea in real life and couldn’t even scramble eggs or fold a shirt. anyhoo…i’m going to try to get tickets to go see the show. that’s one of the things i like about living here…there’s so many things to do!

i also have a favorite tv network….spike! eric laughed at me when i was excitedly telling him how much i enjoyed watching ‘deep space 9’ and ‘star trek the next generation.’ sci-fi is pretty good, too. as well as the history channel…there’s nothing better than learning something while you watch tv. 🙂 [fyi, this is the first time eric and i have had cable]

i’m such an idiot. i just twisted my ankle, fell, and broke a plate. darn it! now i don’t have a complete set.

::ruff ruff:: that was jabba’s blog.