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Thursday, March 31, 2005
not very credible
I am, as I mentioned previously, doing a transcribing job right now. This involves using a nifty little shareware program which slows down audio (and enables me to use a lot of handy keyboard shortcuts to pause and back up, but that doesn't enter into this story) so that I can type what the people are saying without having to pause every ten words to catch up. The audio files I'm transcribing consist of interviews about printer technology and market share and all kinds of scintillating stuff like that. I just wanted to note that when you're listening to someone (who already says "you know" twice or three times per sentence, but maybe that doesn't have much to do with it, it's hard to say) speaking at half-speed about the advantages of his product and why ink costs so much, he sounds a lot like a person who's at a party having way too much to drink and who has accosted you against your wishes and sat down to tell you all about something that is doubtless very important to him but about which you couldn't care in the slightest, even if you were forced to try.
Not a lot of credibility, is what I mean. I keep involuntarily and unfairly thinking (not in so many words, perhaps), "What do you know, you pontificating old sot?"
