I love this. Sometimes we humans are so batshit crazy trying to build that next-big-mega-thing... and here we have an easy-to-use map of forest sounds, and it just works. Kudos!
THANK YOU for this! It's been a while since I've laughed out loud while reading an article on the web. As an owner of an ancient Land Rover, I feel this, physically.
Despite its impact on the company, I always found the lawsuit interesting because as a Nintendo child of the 90s, I knew Donkey Kong very well and my only encounter with King Kong is the Universal Studio Tour ride.
I work at a company where the majority of the employees complain about every new version of Windows, some rather aggressively. They resist adoption until the last possible minute. Then when they upgrade, what do they do? — continue to use Windows to make cool stuff so our company continues to grow and, in reality, persist with the same exact workflow they had the week before... it just looks a little different. Then the complaints die off, and, well, on to other things....
and then management have to upgrade PCs because it runs noticeably slower and tinker with services even more because it interrupts workflow (remember the windows update popups during weather forecasts?)
A friend of mine manages a large business on the outer edge of Portland. He pulls into work early one morning to find a couple of the homeless living in the community behind his office dragging a decent amount of power tools into the vegetation of the greenbelt. We're talking weed-eaters, chainsaws, etc..., that type of stuff. All rather expensive kit, organized and arranged in a very methodical manner, maybe 20 items or so. A call to the police results in a transfer to a third-party mediation team, as the police can't directly interact with "campers" in a situation of this type. There are several articles out there commenting on the "legal quagmire" that are Portland's policies dealing with the homeless community.
Did you know it's legal for anyone to sleep on your sidewalk in Portland? And where are they going to the bathroom? It's terrible. Don't move there. Go to Beaverton if you need to move to Oregon. But you'll be sorry. Stay away from Portland. They'll take all your stuff and the police won't help you. They are in cahoots with the street criminals. It's awful. Don't move to Portland.
