foundati

choumf - chowmf? vehnth - venth spleelfth - spleelf skiwngth - skeewingth thiipth - theepth spliwps - spleups dael - dial fahnth - fanth dweyn - dwayne blahlch - blarch twohsk - twosc gyngk - gink plelf splig jarmth jeyj - jeys spliund'th kriengk - kreenk skewlth dich - dick

I'm bored, and wondering about accents. I'm interested to hear recordings of reddit users speaking the following text:

" Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station. "

This is my recording (http://vocaroo.com/?media=vw30J3ascNYRNYaLI)

The text comes from the speech accent archive from George Mason University.

this is a repost

I've always been puzzled by these apparently standard behaviours in Windows 98SE, 2000, and XP (not tested on others):

1. When spinning up a CD, almost everything appears to pause/hang/lock up.

2. USB device drivers are loaded per-port, with drivers taking ages to "detect" when plugged into a "new" port, and multiple copies of a driver appearing in the device manager for each port the device was plugged into.

why is.... those things?