Lenny's Text to Speech!

Here's a few quotes I'd like to have TTS'd

be who you are and say what you feel because those who don't matter, mind and those who matter don't mind"

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death

These next quotes from Steve Irwin; the Crocodile hunter

And yes you must do them in the Austrailian accent.

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

Nice one. I'll get on them tomorrow, hopefully.

And get ready for the bestest Australian accent you've ever heard from an Englishman.

Nice one. I'll get on them tomorrow, hopefully. And get ready for the bestest Australian accent you've ever heard from an Englishman.

Even though their dialects are almost identical I'm pretty sure I can still tell the difference, oh and I left out my own

Sorry it's taking so long! I've got the four 'normal' ones done, and Kagom's, but I'm still working on an Australian accent.

Good luck with the Aussie one!

Lenny, where are our TTS?

Lenny, here's a long one for you. You should have your own podcast.

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That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

They'll come, don't fret.

I'm busy revising/doing Computing Coursework until the 15th May, when I start my exams, which I'll finish on the 6th June. After that, unless I've already done so, I'll get round to doing every TTS that I haven't done.

Promise.