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Great moments in Marketing - Marriott Edition

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Spotted at the "Breakfast Bar" at a Marriott in San Jose. Words fail me. Seriously, this needs a ™ ?

Transcription FIAL - Episode #37

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I received this little piece of #Awesome today Hey   bash.   We   have   problems   with.   If   with   the   people   that   you   can   use   terms   of   the   time,   though.   Does   The.   In   addition,   we're   at   the   the   I   was   with   the   beach   a   right   through   a   skunk   that   I   wait.   Poppers   right   now.   I'm on   my   way   school,   check   it.   But   the   Hey   need   to   put   our   switch   to   the   either.   If   you   do   it.   Thanks. As it turns out, the sender called me shortly thereafter, and now that I know what he was trying to say, I can confidently say, the above makes no sense whatsoever. Automated transc...

Siri - What are Egg Freckles?

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Remember this immortal Doonesbury bit? I'm one of the suckers that actually bought a Newton, and I remember its shock and awe approach to handwriting recognition.  Shock that it recognized something , and Awe at the sheer badness in an actually released product. Anyhow, Siri has pretty much been an EPIC FIAL for me, right up there with the Newton.  After messing with it for a while, I've found that its actually faster for me to just Google stuff then to go through the possible results. Someday...