We have a road around me called "Chillicothe",and while using Goggle navigation on my Android phone. The voice pronounced it some crazy way.
OMG - you *have* to find a way to record that! I really wanna hear it! I used to, for work, have to call Simon & Schuster on a regular basis to order kids' books and they had an automatic voice system. I was a regional trainer for around 3 years and I always had my trainees call the number. The title that matched the ISBN I gave them is the book, Shoes, Shoes, Shoes. Now, the machine must have had some coding that once it said something the same way a couple times in a row, the next one would be different, so here's what it sounded like (to my best possible imitation) "shoes, shoes, shooooooooeeees
," making that the last one was said long, slow and sad sounding - it was hilarious!What's a Pilot Frixions? There's been some label maker talk in the SI thread and I am getting really envious because I have a Dymo that does nothing but print letters that fade.Rave has a good system, but I don't know where she got it. She posted on SI yesterday. Blues is less trustworthy with his posting. pointing her finger and shaking it at Blues coz he's one of her faves and she gets disappointed when he doesn't show.
Pilot FriXion pens are like normal gel pens, they write beautifully, cleanly, they come in a zillion colors and you can get them all the way down to a .1 tip. I use a .3 or .4 normally. The US ones look like a normal gel pen with a cap on the pen, except that there's a little latex-like nubbin on the end of the pen. If you're writing and make a mistake all you have to do is rub the nubbin on the boo-boo and the heat makes the ink disappear - one tiny annoyance is you can't put the cap on the pen or when you turn it to erase something you have to remove it)! I have newer ones from Japan that I got for Christmas and they're actually clicky pens (no cap) where the pen clip is the part you click on so that you can still use the nubbin with the only downside in normal use on all the FriXions - don't leave the pens & papers written with them in hot or super cold cars. This little "downside" is something you can exploit have fun with! You can send, like, secret letters to your friends by writing whatever you want, then aim a hair dryer at it until it all goes away. Heat is why the text goes away - you can use anything that won't damage your paper to rub and remove the ink. So, you've written your letter, heated it until the ink disappears and send it off in the mail. Your friend then takes the note and sticks it in the coldest part of the freezer for a few minutes. Voila! There is your secret squirrel message. Invisible ink for the new millennium! Honestly, though, these are really great pens and other than possible pressure marks if you press hard when writing, the ink is just gone. Great for any notes you want to scribble that you may want to change later - Ie the little boxes I'm writing in on my tank box. If I change out a flavor I just rub the nubbin on it and goes away, leaving a pristine white surface to label again! I think I have like 13 of them (3 are pink, lol) and they're becoming way more popular in the US. The normal Blue/Black set is sold at Office Max (last time I checked) and they're all over amazon.com. Best place to get them (or the highlighters or the markers - also all heat erasable) is jetpens.com. I found these pens while trying to find a certain type of fountain pen that isn't sold in the US and landed at jetpens which is a Japanese site - and also the only place to get the clicky pens (they call them "ball knock" I dunno?). I did, however, get my first set from Amazon and they were really good price for the pack I got. I love my highlighters as well - I haven't tried the markers yet - they're the newest thing. There's another brand of "erasable pen" and they're horrible. I wish I could remember the name but the reviews were SO horrid (paper getting ripped, ink left behind, etc. for the same concept of pen) so I never even tried them. Whew - the FriXion wiki there I think, lol!
I also just got a Brother (that was the one I got free with GC's on Amazon) it's a PT-1290B and it was a special edition so I got not just the usual black on white tape, but also a white on rose cartridge (that I heart). I got it on Monday but we didn't get batteries till Weds so I had to just stare at it. It takes 6 AAAs, but CVS had their batteries on sale BOGOF and they had some special "10 +2" packs so I got 24 batteries for about $7.50 with tax - woohoo! The model's not super fancy, but it's better than a lot of them and I got lucky finding one in the range I was looking for with free extra tape because that's going to be what all the newer amazon GC's I earn will go toward, lol! Rave had mentioned in one of the threads which model Brother she uses, but I forget what it was. She'd be able to tell you - just pm her. I think it was around 30-ish bucks give or take a few. I have the brain of a goldfish or I'd at least be able to find the post, lol!
Phew - guess I had a lot to say! But when I start talking about things I love I just keep going, lol!
Toodles for now!
... Just kidding of course...
... and I know all you who know the proper pronunciation are going...
... LOL) It's funny for me, especially since I live in "Clackamas" and the "Willamette" river is just a few miles away... heck, a lot of folks don't even know how to pronounce "Oregon" corretly...
In my defense, I usually do better!
