Posted on 04/09/2013 5:27:53 PM PDT by Darksheare
Someone took a three minute portion of "Ceasar's Gallic Wars" and recorded the reading in Latin, Urdu, Cymric, and Gaelic, then mixed all the recordings together concurrently, with selected phrases transcribed in non-Castilian Spanish layered into the mix for flavor. They then took the resultant digital recording of this unique blend of languages and literature and fed it to the input of a very old but still functioning Soviet issue voice scrambler long ago discarded by the KGB. The output of the scrambler was utilized as the source for the generation of a MIDI file which was then played by five MIDI capable devices, the oldest of which was a Yamaha DX7 (which promptly maxed out its available polyphony and caused it to generat amusing bits of random DAC noise.) The resultant audio product was captured via digital recording equipment operating at a sample rate of 64k samples/second and uploaded to YouTube for your listening, um, pleasure.
So, go listen to it again if you dare, and realize that what you are hearing is merely this:
All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in our Gauls, the third. All these differ from each other in language, customs and laws. The river Garonne separates the Gauls from the Aquitani; the Marne and the Seine separate them from the Belgae. Of all these, the Belgae are the bravest, because they are furthest from the civilization and refinement of [our] Province, and merchants least frequently resort to them, and import those things which tend to effeminate the mind; and they are the nearest to the Germans, who dwell beyond the Rhine, with whom they are continually waging war; for which reason the Helvetii also surpass the rest of the Gauls in valor, as they contend with the Germans in almost daily battles, when they either repel them from their own territories, or themselves wage war on their frontiers. One part of these, which it has been said that the Gauls occupy, takes its beginning at the river Rhone; it is bounded by the river Garonne, the ocean, and the territories of the Belgae; it borders, too, on the side of the Sequani and the Helvetii, upon the river Rhine, and stretches toward the north. The Belgae rises from the extreme frontier of Gaul, extend to the lower part of the river Rhine; and look toward the north and the rising sun. Aquitania extends from the river Garonne to the Pyrenaean mountains and to that part of the ocean which is near Spain: it looks between the setting of the sun, and the north star.
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur. Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt. Gallos ab Aquitanis Garumna flumen, a Belgis Matrona et Sequana dividit....
Good morning, Caesar. Fine grammar you got there.
Good morning. I’ve mailed the last payment on the van; hopefully I’ll get a nice note from the bank soon.
42 and sunny. I went running at 5:00 a.m., when it was still dark and I don’t know how cold, but I had all my layers of clothes on.
Well, the subverted robotics are much larger.
Some are the size of a respectable great dane.
Others are the size of vehicles.
Their normal cautious behavior is replaced with something akin to robotic tourettes.
Heh heh heh.
Metalstep, which is an outgrowth of Dubstep.
The musician CellDweller actually can do regular music, but his electronic stuff seems to have more life and movement to it than his “normal” music.
I’m going to work.
Everybody play nice.
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I promise not to open the door marked “Special Project, Do Not Open”.
Too late...
The winning answer would have been “Me and Bobby McGee.”
“What’s that rumbling noise?”
That doesn’t sound like a Monday song...
But I could be wrong. Maybe.
You opened the door...you should have known what was behind it. ohno...it’s...comi...EEEEEK!
“And at that moment, robotic shambling paperboys rushed into the room!”
Uh, narrator guy, you’re in their path.
“Wait, I am? Oh God no! AUUUUGH!”
You’re too late. You’ve already been pasted and papered...
Paper delivered into oblivion.
What if you’re part of the experiment?
I never cared for that.
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