![]() But it's very, very well known on Reddit.Īnd when someone posted that video last year in /r/nevertellmetheodds, Andrew, aka /u/110101002, decided to have a little fun with it. The umps ruled it a no-pitch so it's not in any official records. Probably the most famous point of his career happened in 2001, where, in a spring training game against the San Francisco Giants, he pitched a fastball, which then immediately barreled into a passing mourning dove. His fastball consistently clocked in at more than 100 mph, and he's in the Hall of Fame. Especially since there isn't a "never show me this skill again" button.That's Randy "The Big Unit" Johnson, one of the best pitchers of all time. It's all very nice that Amazon is now publishing every single approved skill. Now, if it had been more general, or could connect to any given reddit, that would have been something. There are dozens of skills that do exactly this. I guess I have to wait until tomorrow to get another one. Although the one for today was pretty funny, it would only give me the same one, over and over. ![]() I'm not quite sure how they work out the "most popular" thought. This just pulls from reddit's /r/ShowerThoughts.Įase of Use: 3 out of 5. This is a skill which will automatically fetch the Internet's most popular Shower Thought each day. ![]() Shower Thoughts are itty-bitty witty bite-sized clever thoughts. But the interface and diction bring it down to mid level. This has grand ambitions, and could have been really good. And this is probably would it would look like. I've often thought if I ever do a fortune cookie skill that I'd do a multi-plexed mash-up skill. But I have to give kudos to Mike Waldrop for having a topic based one. I'm really tired of "inspiration quote" skill. In this case quantity does not make up for quality. Someone just took them off the internet, and has Alexa spit them out. To fully get their meaning across, they need pauses at the right points. It is hard to be inspiring in the halting unnatural speech that you get when Alexa reads untailored prose. Although the breadth of quotes is impressive, number wise, it suffers in execution. This leads to irritating sequences like:Īlexa: "Yes is not a valid input at this point". Unfortunately the audio interface is rather clumsy and not well thought through. It weaves together a whole bunch of topics that it can provide quotes from. A full list of topics can be sent to your Alexa app at any time.Ī "fortune cookie" skill with a lot of variety.Įase of Use: 3 out of 5. You can ask for a random quote from the entire library or a quote on a specific topic such as love, happiness, or humor. We have over 75,000 quotes covering a range of over 100 different topics from over 11,000 people such as Sophocles, Bill Gates, Walt Whitman and many others. Even their privacy policy/terms of use site has expired! I'm not sure the developer is all that committed. But it has the feeling of having been quickly thrown together. If the skill was a little better articulated, it might have the potential to grow and serve up a wider variety of topics. Show it to the kids, and see what they think. However, being taking the bold step of combining two, it's a little better than most. Fortune cookies are the most frequent skill type to be found on Alexa (shortly followed by Bitcoins and cats). Also, one or two conversation starters might have been better classified as parenting tips. The parenting tips weren't really parenting tips, but more conversation starters for you with your kids. The conversation starters and parenting tips were. ![]() I expected this to be extraordinary lame. I like that it does more than one thing, but the rather verbose start up message gets old fast. It does both "conversation starters" and also "parenting tips". This, however, is two fortune cookies in one. Most fortune cookie skills have a minimal interface. We are constantly adding exciting new topics to help you liven up your dinner parties and family gatherings.Ī "fortune cookie" skill with a little bit of variety.Įase of Use: 3 out of 5. With Superpower, you can get an interesting conversation topic to start an engaging discussion with your friends and family. ![]()
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