The Diary of Antoine Roquentin

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Month: July, 2009

I didn’t realize until today how much I absolutely love Junior Boys.

Listen to Last Exit. LISTEN TO IT! Best album ever. I got to this show later than any show I’ve ever gone to, they were playing Bellona as I went up the staircase at Webster Hall. Hearing “Under the Sun” live was fucking fantastic. It was this unending massage of layered guitar, synths, and painfully [...]

a day in Piermont

Today was nice. We took a drive up to Piermont, in New York. It’s this beautiful little town with beautiful Victorian homes that probably cost more than I’ve ever made in my entire life. We had a nice lunch at a restaurant on the dock, watched an old couple feed the ducks, and headed back [...]

Under the sun at the Jersey Shore

So I just updated to the most recent version of MacSpeech Dictate. Version 1.5 is supposed to be way more advanced and with way better recognition capabilities. I’m not sure why, but the application seems way more responsive than the old version. In the old version, when I would speak a paragraph or so it [...]

VXI

So I’m very excited to say that I got a brand-new headset today. I bought the $99 VXI TalkPro Xpress from MacSpeech, the company that makes my voice recognition software. When you do the training, it will play back to you a portion of what you said. When I used the terrible microphone that came [...]

July IV.

I’ve been having a pretty good Fourth of July. We went down to the pool for a few hours. I love swimming laps, and the deal is only sweetened by the town’s swim team coming down to practice in the afternoons. I have to not wear my contacts down there so I don’t stare. I’ve [...]