Readings, promos, and shorts

Interviewing some familiar-sounding convicted fileshare users.  A tribute to Buchanan and Goodman, produced in the old Kazaa days.

Roberto Luciernaga - RIAA - Convicted Fileshare Users Interviewed

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, run through Google Translate from English, to Chinese, to Russian, to Punjabi, to Welsh, back to English and performed by Rob Vincent.

Music: "Hail Columbia" by the US Marine Corps Band (public domain). 

Original mistranslation:

5.87 years , and our fathers that all men are created equal , dedicated to freedom of the uterus and forth on this continent a new nation came .

Now we are engaged in a great civil war , that nation or any nation has been conceived, and so dedicated , can long continue . Battle of the big war . For us to survive here in this country and gave their lives as a final place of rest in this area has come to set aside part . This we should do , which is natural .

However , in a broader sense , we can not worship the earth , we can not dedicate , devote unable . Who struggle brave men , living and dead , surrender, or to add it to roam far above our power is poor . Note Small World , nor long remember telling us , but they can never forget. Dedicated to the work on the cross , our life , , , , , and fought heroically . None of the rest of them here so that we can complete their last full measure of devotion to die to become more committed to the work we have great honor to devote themselves to this is that we will not die in vain , because they are the very definition of it - the dead by God , freedom and government of the people, people , freshmen will , and will not destroy the earth .


This also exists on Tumblr: http://robtfirefly.tumblr.com/post/75905108508/the-mistranslated-gettysburg-address

The Mistranslated Gettysburg Address

My quick promo cart for the HOPE X hacker conference.  For more info, hit http://x.hope.net !

Music: "Bit Bit Loop" by Kevin McLeod, which is in the Public Domain. http://freepd.com

As played on WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York.

HOPE X!

HOPE X promo cart

A short lesson I produced in 2008 as a favor to a non-Spanish-speaking friend who worked as a firefighter in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods.

Conversational Spanish For Firefighters

A reading by of the short humor essay "The Gusher" by Charles Battell Loomis, from the 1907 anthology "The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX" edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder.

Public domain ebook courtesy Project Gutenberg, available at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24433 .

Charles Battell Loomis - The Gusher

Nerd of all trades.

Now podcasting at https://modern.technology , on SC at https://soundcloud.com/mtpodcastnet !

Readings, promos, and shorts

Rob T Firefly