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Feb 23 2006

Disgraceful

I go to the gym from time to time, since just paying is not sufficient, and they have a few tvs near the cardio equipment. If you tune a radio to particular stations, you can hear the sound, otherwise, they have the closed captioning on. Which is where the disgrace part comes in. If I were a deaf person I would be seriously pissed off about the quality of closed captioning these days; I believe it is now done by computer rather than by a fast-typing human, and it is absolutely horrible. There are entire lines of just boxes where the captioning couldn't figure it out, and when there are letters they often spell out nonsense, with ampersands in the middle of words and words mashed together. It's just terrible. Either computers need to get way better, or they need to get good humans; preferably both--get the humans to do it until the computers are better.

Because, you see, I can't tell the difference between a triple lutz and a double salchow unless the narrator tells me.