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[389 Hood]

Yep! I like air movement around me or I'll sweat the bed.

 

[Duck]

I sleep with the fan on all the time. I have read that most ADD people sleep with the fan on.
I am not sure if it is a white noise thing, I think it's more of an airflow thing. it could be both. I have tried white noise machines, and they just keep me awake.

I don't think white noise machines will work on anyone over 40 because it's the same sound an old TV would make if there's no signal.

For like the past 20 years or more, all modern TVs just go to silence and blue or logo screen if there's no input signal.

To us, that sound literally means "turn the fuckin TV off, fiddle with the knobs, turn down the volume, - just do SOMETHING to make it STFU.

Who can sleep when there's such an urgent pressing issue at hand like that?

 

[Electric Chicken]

My white noise is the train horns that seem to go by more and more often.

 

[Duck]

I've been thinking about trying to see if I can make a machine that makes the sound of wind blowing on a 108 year old, drafty house with cheap vinyl windows.

I sleep like a baby when it's like that.


I have a fan motor with its own little worm gear drive for the oscillator mechanism.

Thinkin I could use the oscillating mechanism to move some kind of whistle in & out of alignment with the fan's wind direction.

Not a regular whistle like a gym teacher uses. I'm talking about just some oddly shaped object that makes a little bit of noise as it interrupts the airflow in random turbulent ways as it rotates in front of the fan.



Or just download one of those wind noise apps for my phone that plays while it's charging.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I've been thinking about trying to see if I can make a machine that makes the sound of wind blowing on a 108 year old, drafty house with cheap vinyl windows.

I sleep like a baby when it's like that.


I have a fan motor with its own little worm gear drive for the oscillator mechanism.

Thinkin I could use the oscillating mechanism to move some kind of whistle in & out of alignment with the fan's wind direction.

Not a regular whistle like a gym teacher uses. I'm talking about just some oddly shaped object that makes a little bit of noise as it interrupts the airflow in random turbulent ways as it rotates in front of the fan.



Or just download one of those wind noise apps for my phone that plays while it's charging.

Why don't you just record your house and then play it on a loop?

 

[Rigjockey]

I've been thinking about trying to see if I can make a machine that makes the sound of wind blowing on a 108 year old, drafty house with cheap vinyl windows.

I sleep like a baby when it's like that.


I have a fan motor with its own little worm gear drive for the oscillator mechanism.

Thinkin I could use the oscillating mechanism to move some kind of whistle in & out of alignment with the fan's wind direction.

Not a regular whistle like a gym teacher uses. I'm talking about just some oddly shaped object that makes a little bit of noise as it interrupts the airflow in random turbulent ways as it rotates in front of the fan.



Or just download one of those wind noise apps for my phone that plays while it's charging.

Maybe a whistle like a tea kettle uses would sound more like wind through the windows because the sound changes from low to high.

 

[Rigjockey]

I don't think white noise machines will work on anyone over 40 because it's the same sound an old TV would make if there's no signal.

For like the past 20 years or more, all modern TVs just go to silence and blue or logo screen if there's no input signal.

To us, that sound literally means "turn the fuckin TV off, fiddle with the knobs, turn down the volume, - just do SOMETHING to make it STFU.

Who can sleep when there's such an urgent pressing issue at hand like that?

You are old enough to remember when the T.V. stations would sign off and then there would be the test pattern with an annoying sound.

 

[Duck]

Why don't you just record your house and then play it on a loop?

That only works if I happen to remember to set up a digital recorder using a good omnidirectional microphone, and keep the dog quiet long enough, on a day that happens to be windy.

For some reason it has to be freezing cold wind too. In the summer the wind makes no noise.

Probably something with colder air being denser.

 

[Rigjockey]

Technology...
We used to be able to remember Like 12 different 7–10-digit phone numbers now most of us don't remember many phone numbers.

I used to be able to spell until spell check came along.

Grammer correction feature, yes, that one is good because I don't think I was taught grammar in grammar school. Like when to use a comma as opposed to a period and a semicolon.

 

[389 Hood]

Technology...
We used to be able to remember Like 12 different 7–10-digit phone numbers now most of us don't remember many phone numbers.

I used to be able to spell until spell check came along.

Grammer correction feature, yes, that one is good because I don't think I was taught grammar in grammar school. Like when to use a comma as opposed to a period and a semicolon.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. My wife always asks me how to spell this or that and I have to stop and think about it now, whereas before, I'd just blurt it out.

 

[Rigjockey]

Back in my day we had pagers, In the 90's the price of pagers dropped. Before that mostly drug dealers and doctors could afford a pager. We would have to call back using a landline phone, Phone booth or home phone

Then we got cell phones. That was great, I got a phone in my pocket or more likely in a holster of sorts.

Now we got smart phones. We have a computer in our pockets, any information you want at your fingertips.
For me it is mind blowing.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I had a pager in high school. No one ever paged me but it made me feel important nonetheless. The office made me turn it in to them every morning then pick it up at the end of the day because they thought I might be a drug dealer. Despite being an A student with a bowl haircut.

I stopped taking it because it was too annoying and eventually got rid of it. Since you know, the only reason to have it was to flex.

 

[Duck]

I had a pager in high school. No one ever paged me but it made me feel important nonetheless. The office made me turn it in to them every morning then pick it up at the end of the day because they thought I might be a drug dealer. Despite being an A student with a bowl haircut.

I stopped taking it because it was too annoying and eventually got rid of it. Since you know, the only reason to have it was to flex.

I never had one.

My best friend did.

I was probably the only one who ever paged him and it was never a real page. It was always something like 5318008 so it would say "boobies" when he looked at it upside down.

We were like 14

 

[Electric Chicken]

I never had one.

My best friend did.

I was probably the only one who ever paged him and it was never a real page. It was always something like 5318008 so it would say "boobies" when he looked at it upside down.

We were like 14

I later got an early cell phone. Wasn't Zach Morris style but it cost $1 per minute so I told people to never call me. And I never called anyone. Because who TF can afford to just chat when it costs that.

Nowadays I have unlimited calls and texts but I tell people to never call me and I never call them because who TF wants to talk to people anymore.

 

[389 Hood]

I'd much rather text or email over talking to someone. Some people get on the phone and don't shut up. I have things to do and talking on the phone isn't one of them.

 

[Duck]

I'd much rather text or email over talking to someone. Some people get on the phone and don't shut up. I have things to do and talking on the phone isn't one of them.

I don't have a problem talking to people on the phone if I'm using a hands free device. A good one that I don't have to yell into.

Problem is my blue parrot has been on a hook on the wall behind my workbench, plugged in to it's charger, since like 2017. It's filthy, covered in workbench grime.

Metal shavings from the angle grinder, wood shavings, rust from a wire wheel, compounded by varying humidity levels, etc.. Because it's near the vise.

I just HATE holding the phone up to my ear. And I have to turn off the stereo and any other background noises.

 

[Rigjockey]

The most annoying thing for me is people leaving voicemail, then I got to go into my voicemail and delete the message. I don't need to be left a message I have caller ID, and your call will go into my call log. I know you called.
I don't know of any way to turn off my voice mail other than calling my phone company and that sounds more annoying than deleting voicemails.

 

[Electric Chicken]

The most annoying thing for me is people leaving voicemail, then I got to go into my voicemail and delete the message. I don't need to be left a message I have caller ID, and your call will go into my call log. I know you called.
I don't know of any way to turn off my voice mail other than calling my phone company and that sounds more annoying than deleting voicemails.

I let my voice mail fill up a couple years ago and never deleted any. No one can leave messages anymore.

My travel agent was like "your inbox is full" and I was all "yeah I know."

 

[Duck]

I let my voice mail fill up a couple years ago and never deleted any. No one can leave messages anymore.

My travel agent was like "your inbox is full" and I was all "yeah I know."

I did the same thing.

 

[Rigjockey]

Did Charles Manson use both reverse psychology and reverse psychiatry?

The reverse psychology would be getting people to do his bidding with psychological mind tricks.
The reverse psychiatry would be his patients gave him the drugs.