There was an article in the New Yorker about tinnitus recently. Apparently it's a kind of complicated thing.
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Emily - Feb 26, 2009 9:52:10 am PST #8414 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Liese S. - Feb 26, 2009 9:57:12 am PST #8415 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
That's a link to a file with a sweeping (descending) tone ranging from 22kHz to 12kHz. I can start to hear it at 17.
tommyrot - Feb 26, 2009 9:57:58 am PST #8416 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Have I said, "Fuck John Bolton" before? I believe I have.
John Bolton At CPAC: Jokes About Nuking Chicago
More at Mother Jones:
"The fact is on foreign policy I don't think President Obama thinks it's a priority," said Bolton. "He said during the campaign he thought Iran was a tiny threat. Tiny, tiny depending on how many nuclear weapons they are ultimately able to deliver on target. Its, uh, its tiny compared to the Soviet Union, but is the loss of one American city" – here Bolton shrugged his shoulders impishly – "pick one at random – Chicago – is that a tiny threat?"
Bolton wasn't the only one who thought this was funny. The room erupted in laughter and applause. Was this conservative catharsis, with rightwingers delightfully imagining the destruction of a city that represents Obama? Or perhaps they were venting vengeance with their laughter. (Bolton is no stranger to inflammatory remarks. He once infamously quipped, "There are 38 floors to the UN building in New York. If you lost 10 of them, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.")
Fuck John Bolton.
Dana - Feb 26, 2009 10:03:11 am PST #8417 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
That's a link to a file with a sweeping (descending) tone ranging from 22kHz to 12kHz. I can start to hear it at 17.
Huh. I hear it right away at 22.
Jesse - Feb 26, 2009 10:05:12 am PST #8418 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's a link to a file with a sweeping (descending) tone ranging from 22kHz to 12kHz. I can start to hear it at 17.
That one I heard at 16.
Dana - Feb 26, 2009 10:05:29 am PST #8419 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Okay, do I have mutant hearing?
JZ - Feb 26, 2009 10:05:49 am PST #8420 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I can hear the teenager sound. To me, it sounded nothing remotely like water running in a toilet tank; it was so unpleasant I had to shut it off after the first couple of seconds. Ugh. If malls are really-truly using that to ward off loitering teens, I am gladder than ever that I generally avoid the damn places.
Ugh. It's giving me the shudders just remembering the sound.
Jesse - Feb 26, 2009 10:06:16 am PST #8421 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And I could hear the teenager one! Once I adjusted the volume on my computer...
Okay, do I have mutant hearing?
Apparently.
flea - Feb 26, 2009 10:06:17 am PST #8422 of 30000
information libertarian
Dana is either a teenager, or possibly a dog (because on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.)
(Until you admit to hearing 22kHz sounds.)
meara - Feb 26, 2009 10:07:47 am PST #8423 of 30000
Huh, interesting Liese--I didn't hear it until 15!! (But I also couldn't hear the teenager one. And I"m pretty sure I've got hearing damage--I HATE talking on the phone because I have to keep saying "what? what?"--that's why I prefer b.org and LJ and IM and such for keeping up with people!)