Actually Hawking has ALS (which is what farker Sunburn had, RIP) which is related to MND.

Hawking's website

I can't believe I missed that Sunburn died. I remember when he posted his picture on some Fark thread.

So am I a bad person if I cut and paste that into a text to speech engine and listen to it? Yes? I thought so.

If you are looking for trouble, mister, you found it.

Fark rule No. 1. Don't read it at work, or you're gonna cause a commotion over why you're laughing so hard.

"He's possessed again!"

Sapa-dpa, indeed!

/Scientist Professor

"Sometimes the smartest of us can be the most childish."
"Even you?"
"No... not me. Never."

/"Hey! You read that off my screen!"

You can try it out here.

mrCasual;

Apparently when I went to lunch someone thought it would be clever to turn my speakers up - after I substituted biatch for another choice word.

now stephen radiates too...

Another geek story...

Today was first day of school for my 3rd grade son who has Asperger Syndrome (similar to high functioning autism). When I dropped him off he ran immediately to this nerdy looking kid wearing a Strongbad t-shirt. The kid was smiling nervously and lamented, "Oh, no! He's going to talk endlessly about nintendo for another year!" I am so very proud to be the mom of an uber-geek.

Sapa-dpa!
Supa-Dupa!

Thanks GooberMcFly, I just had my own personal audioedit contest there.

Actually the blinky thing isn't that new - a friend of mine had an interview with him for a PhD position about a month ago and he was using it to talk to her. She was really struck by the willpower required to do every single thing by just twitching your eye - he's incredibly tough mentally.

Homer. Your theory of a donut-shaped universe intrigues me.

Say what you like about Steven Hawking, at least he's clear.

Data: I am surprised you are still here.
Hawking: That's what my doctors keep saying.

lemming mark

Dammit, that beats my brush with genius, I nearly bumped into him in town the other day (well about a month ago). Just as I was coming out of the public toilets at the back of the Lion Yard.

Is this one going to have a British accent?

Gash:
Say what you like about Steven Hawking, at least he's clear.

That's scientist not Scientologist. Unless... Please tell me the good professor is not a Hubbardite...

Heh. These are entertaining.

Dammit,all the good Simpson's references have been done!

I came in here EXPRESSLY for the 'if you're looking for trouble' line.

Good show.

Boom shacka-lacka-lacka-lacka.
Boom shacka-lacka-lacka-lacak.
Boom.

Also, one of the various dictionary websites (might be Merriam Webster) has an application similar to this, where you type in a word, it gives you a definition, and then gives you option to hear the word said aloud.

Great fun had with this thing, 'pubes' comes out as 'pyoo-beez'. Fornication, vagina. It's like I was back in middle school.

I have seen the man "speak" in person. He is most awesome. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. He rolled by 2 feet away from me!!

So no more Creative Labs Soundblaster voice?

Someone's got to Dr. Sbaitso...

GooberMcFly Did you stick a broomstick in his spokes? That would have been funny.

He's been known to perpetrate acts of violence with his chair, such as ramming cars that park across wheelchair ramps. He was quoted as saying something like "If anyone accuses me of using my wheelchair as a weapon, I'll run over their feet". If you're gonna stick a broomstick you'd better be ready to run :-)

bee-ahtch

Why don't you have you wife come over for some...

Boom. Shaka. Laka.
Boom. Shaka. Laka.
Boom. Shaka. Laka.

Wow, does the man still teach? That would be something to see. I am always amazed that he has lived so long with ALS.

Had an uncle with it--killed him in less than 10 years.

I think the new unit looks like this (also comes in black and gray):

Stephen Hawking is one of my personal heros, and that link just further confirms his awesome quotient. I mean, how many people who have a degenerative disease that makes it impossible for them to speak, let alone get out of bed, would make a Dr. Who reference to their text-to-speech synthesizer?

cryinoutloud

He doesn't teach like most professors. He gives occasional lectures but these are big events, rather than regular "teaching" lectures. He also supervises PhD students, although most of the time they'll be following the normal PhD model of working with someone less senior on a day-to-day basis.

I misread 'blinky' for 'binky' and couldn't figure out how a baby product was helping. Doh

The image of Hawking rolling around yelling "EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE!" will now not leave my head.

Remember Dr Hawking playing poker on the holodeck with Data in TNG?

lostindustrial

I have seen the man "speak" in person. He is most awesome. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. He rolled by 2 feet away from me!!

I've seen him give presentations twice - once was at UCSC in the late '80s - the line was so long that they ended up seating the overflow in the next lecture hall over and showed his presentation on closed circuit video. I was in the overflow room.

the second time I saw him was just a few years ago at the local community college - he was due to give a real presentation at the theater that weekend, but this Friday afternoon lunch thing was just for the students. I cut my Assembly Language class to attend, and got a seat behind the stage - so I also had him roll by just a few feet away.

during the set-up for that show, a crew was inexplicably setting up a drum kit. I remarked to the person next to me, "so, Prof. Hawking is going to play drums for us?"

it was some school glee club opening act, tho... oh well.

Great. Now I've got that Richard Cheese song stuck in my head.

/the doggone girl is mine

OK I call Bullsquat on the whole Hawking hoax. Those nerds at MIT been foolin us for years, he does not really exist, its just a remote controlled dummy thingy.

I heard his son works at Microsoft, or used to.