Saturday, May 12, 2018
Insomniac robot
I've lived here for 27 years and always enjoyed the nearby school's Crossing Song. A leftover of earlier times when town criers and vendors had their specific tunes. This school year the song was replaced by an automatic PA system with LOUD outdoor speakers, which carries the regular school announcements and also BEEPS to indicate the last warning for walkers. I recorded and notated the song for posterity before it disappeared.
This month the automatic system has gone wrong. It's BEEPING and talking at random hours, especially between midnight and 2 AM. Sometimes it emits a siren instead of the BEEP. The robotic equivalent of sleepwalking. (RAM sleep.)
See what happens when you switch from analog to digital? You lose a human skill and you gain random noise.
See what happens when you switch from analog to digital? You lose a human skill and you gain random noise.
Labels: skill-estate
¶ 5:17 PM
