UPDATE: Replaced plywood with concrete for wobble-free beer drinking.
Author Archives: Steve Mays
Who’s buying all this booze?
ChatGPT: Advanced Voice
There are now nine Voice options in the ChatGPT app. Each one has a different tone, style and… “personality.” (I went with Sol) It also has something called “speech-to-speech capabilities.” This means that it can pick up on tone changes, “allowing for a more natural, human-like conversation and faster interrupting.”
I’m not sure about “Advanced Voice.” If you want it to sound more like yourself then you can ask it to adopt a specific accent. It won’t be able to directly mimic your voice but it can sound like it’s from your neck of the woods. I don’t think so. If I want to hear the lilting sounds of Southeast Missouri, I’ll talk to Barb.
The most important vote I will ever cast
Early (absentee?) voting has started in Missouri so I stopped by the county clerk’s office this morning and voted in the November 5 election. It was surprisingly satisfying. It felt good in a way I don’t recall experiencing in previous elections. 
My ballot was (almost) what we once called “a straight ticket.” I did vote for a couple of Republican candidates but a lot of offices didn’t have a Democrat candidate (this is Missouri). So lots of write-in votes.
I thought about standing in line this November (I did that for Obama) but elected to get this important task behind me.
“It’s time to be a man and vote for a woman”
Sam Elliot has one of those instantly recognizable voices. Up there with Morgan Freeman, james Earl Jones, Charlton Heston, just to name a few. (Good list of 20)
“Are we really going down that same broken fucking road?”
I love that they let him say “fucking.” Everybody says fuck. It’s a perfectly good word and, sometimes, the only word that fits.