So I got the iPhone 4s. Hilarity ensued!

[nolabear]

If you're inclined to bash anything or anyone skip it; I bought the thing anyway.

I LOVE me some nerds. Siri (the personal assistant function) not only is damned handy for everything from "wake me up at 9 am" to "Where's the nearest vegetarian restaurant" to "find me an eggplant recipe" to "When I leave here, remind me to call my husband". But I didn't even think, until someone pointed it out to me, that you can ask or say anything and will get some kind of response. Sometimes it's just "I don't understand the question" but not that often. It replies to "I love you" with variations on "we hardly know one another" or "I'm only your personal assistant", the kind of reply which I know goes way back to early computers, but it also answers things like "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" with an answer and a list of comparitively similar speeds. Her voice ain't much, but I'm getting fond of her anyhow.

In my case, though, the most fun comes out of the fact that my African Grey hates for me to be on the phone. She can emit a squeal that stands your hair on end, which, if I'm trying to say something to Siri, interrupts the flow badly. Siri thinks most often that the "MEEEEP" has something to do with trying to set up a meeting. Eventually I might just give up altogether and let them have at, except they need me to tilt the phone up to my ear or plug in an earphone to cue it to listen or reply. I suspect it's just a matter of time.

(She tells me that woodchuck could chuck 42 cords of wood, to be exact, and that EVERYONE knows that. Bitch.) :rofl:

[Kali]

1. parrots = 2 year-olds when it comes to phones aren't they?

happy and quiet all day until you get on the phone then is is a 500 decibel screeching tantrum

[REP]

2. Have you tried the other languages?

That's fun too!

[sakabatou]

3. What's it say.

[REP]

8. Ask it something in French, German or Australian English...

It insults my French.

Unfortunately, no option for Spanish, which I speak rather well.

[nolabear]

4. I did, but it won't find businesses in the US if it has a British accent!

I do like it being a guy though. Wish I could give it a sex change.

[Glassunion]

5. Try these...

Tell Siri "I'm horny"

Tell Siri "I need to hide a body"

Last night my wife and I were messing around with the dictation. I started to dictate a text message, and all I did was bleat like a sheep(baaa) five times. It typed out "Bad love now mad man."

Bad love indeed.

[nolabear]

6. I had no idea there was a mine shaft there! Thanks, Siri!

Technology is gooood. (And I found a good escort service, too!)

[WolverineDG]

7. My cat hates Siri

It must be emitting some sound waves at dog-whistle level because every time I activate Siri, the cat goes nuts. Even if she's not in the same room with me.


dg