Why is it called The Rough Draft?


Because this is literally where I do all my rough drafts for my real blog The Anti-Puritan. I employ a speech-to-text process to write followed by a text-to-speech process to find misspellings. Inevitably in the process of speech to text the machine introduces errors which then have to be corrected. Since blogger won't allow me to do that within the blog editing system, I have to publish it somewhere, and then edit it while listening to it. If you catch me early enough in the publishing process you may see spelling improving in real time when you reload the page. This is because I am rewriting it in real time prior to publishing it at the Anti-Puritan blog. I usually write and edit here, and then schedule things for upload a day or two later over there. 


Why speech to text? Same reason I no longer read books if I can get them on audiobook. After reading over 100 books in my youth I'm completely tired of the text format for doing anything. Reading and writing should long ago have transitioned into the Star Trek era of just talking to a computer and it talking to you. Getting eye strain is lame and gay.



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