andreas jp

awesome-everyday:

(karen as in KarenAbad)

She’s not a robot. So I win the pool you guys.

Pony up.

dang it pam, you always win. not fair.

preferably from Freitag.

my grandma usually ran and put together the talent show, and she loved getting the youngest kids to do some sort of Mime act.

for our ‘Time Travel’ show, my cousin played my grandma, and she was sent back in time to the Titanic and was to try and and get help my Miming only.

the entire skit was simply my cousin (as my grandma) making frantic hand gestures and running from side to side (as the boat rocked back and forth) while we threw ice at her. lots of ice. and not really ‘threw’ more, like pelted her with ice.

it was amazing.

the world is essentially slave labor.

i feel like there is someone i can sue for lost wages or something like that.

any lawyers in the house?

(say ye-ah)

i know all of you have seen one of these tests at one point or another in you online existance. a ‘captcha’ test are those funky letters or numbers that you have to type in when signing up for an account somewhere.

this test was originally invented to make it so that only humans could sign up for, and do do different things on the web, and to stop ‘bots’ from spamming and signing up automatically.  this idea became very popular and is now utilized by almost every internet outlet out there.

the creator of the captcha test later realized that while it did stop bots from doing things, it really did nothing for the human population. so he had an idea.

right now there are multiple organizations who are working to scan and digitize every book in the world. they scan the pages, and computer software recognizes the letters, and ‘types’ it out.  sadly, there are some letter or words in books that the computer is not able to ‘read’ and type out. they originally hired people who would go through and manually type these words in, one at a time, so that the book may be complete. this however took too much time.

so the captcha creator decided to essentially hire the entire world population to help with the project.

this started the TWO-word captcha tests. one of the words is just like any other captcha and matters when signing up for something. the other word is a scan from some book that the computer wasn’t able to digitize.

so when you type in that word, it sends it back to the database of books, and fills in that blank.  the entire world is doing in one day what it would have taken months for the research group to do on their own.

so congrats world, you are helping preserve books for eternity and you didn’t even know it.

(some info here)

and believe me, i was incredibly close.

for 18 years of my life i attended a summer camp that was run by my parents and used as a recruiting tool for a private college that i later attended. 18 years of summer camp means 18 amazing talent shows. for 5 years i was an Emcee (M.C.) for the talent show.
whenever i feel like it, i will post a skit that was either performed, or one that me or another M.C. did.

*anything that us Emcees did was pure gold. or at least we liked to think so.