For those of you who need some explanation, Google Voice is a service (offered by Google...or did you know that already?) that will, among other things, transcribe your voicemail. And not only is it free, but it doesn't work for shit! Actually, it is still in beta and available by invite only (I have a few, if anyone is interested), so to be fair, it is still being improved.
Doubtlessly it will become as finely-tuned as all Google products, so I am not making fun of the concept, but rather the execution as it stands now. So with no further exposition needed, I now present to you:
Today's Top Picks for Google Voice Madness on My Phone:
Ah yes, I see I have received a call from my cryptic friend who is just starting to learn 'the English'. I'm glad they are changing his whole oil though, sometime gas stations take advantage of foreigners and only change the half. Although that might explain why he has to "change that a lot".
Sweet, Fat Albert called. Oh wait - it's actually a completely blank voicemail, and apparently Google Voice feels bad, so it made up someone who was so excited to talk to me that they just shouted 'hey' over and over again, like I do when I call my own voice mail to cheer myself up. Hmmm...
Hello Peace, what's that you say? You want me to give you a chance? Very funny Peace, you need to get some new material. How did you get this number anyway? It was those bastards at MoveOn, wasn't it? They're pissed because I don't respond to their hourly emails...
Final Verdict: 4 out of 5 Shoggoths. We will try again tomorrow, but for now I will try to beat back the crawling horrors of the deep that have been summoned by my phone, the scurrying sound of a thousand fingernails barely audible over the hiss and pop of the poorly recorded voicemails...
