Old, as proven by the blog

Back in 2009, in the early days of this blog, I wrote a post expressing my frustrations with how things change and I am not told. 

"You know what? It's probably broadcast in that frequency only young people can hear, except no, I just clicked that link and that is a really obnoxious noise. Don't click that."

“Huh,” I thought. “I remember that noise. It's been fifteen years. I was 47. I wonder if I can still hear the really obnoxious noise.”

Nope. Dead silence. Very tiresome. 

 

 

Comments

[Big Dot]

Same. Ditto. Sigh.

[theQueen]

Big Dot - I suppose we should focus in things we’re better at than the young people, like coping with problems and understanding motivations.

[KC]

I'm just over 40 and I can't hear the NPR version, so there's that.

(part of me wonders if this is a computer/speaker thing, though, since a lot of these things were Different 15 years ago in terms of what they filtered, etc. I just had a go at recording it in Audacity, and that bit is nearly a flatline, so now I wish I had a pair of younger ears handy to try it on using the same speakers... I did find this short video on youtube, and if I record that, it's visible, and then if I set the pitch lower in Audacity, it *is* an audible but high-pitched annoying thing... but I can't hear the youtube video version of it directly, though for behold, I am apparently too old now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKl_sTh0oHE Anyway: maybe re-test your ears on that, but look, I'm not 47 yet and I can't hear it, so you got a few "can hear annoyingly high-pitched noises" years more than I did. :-) )(I *could* hear electronics buzz when I was a teen, so I did have that capacity, but: no more. Sigh.)

[theQueen]

KC - Not to brag, but I was 47 in 2009 and I could hear it. But now I can't but I love that you went into Audacity. I should have thought of that.

[KC]

I really wonder if NPR ran an audio filter over their clips between then and now, since the youtube mosquito is *very* definitely there and the NPR one basically isn't...

[theQueen]

KC - I heard it on the you tube https://youtu.be/GyNcpW8o-i4?si=lW6LX3PR38yxTlP- ... but I had to crank up the volume all the way.

[KC]

So not too old, after all! (well. a little old, because yeah, it turns out I can also hear it if I crank the volume up allll the way but if I record it in Audacity at a normal volume and pitch-shift it down a bit, that sucker is *LOUD* and awfully obnoxious, so we're probably only able to hear a little fragment of it. But sounds like our ears are in about the same shape, which I am going to mildly resent over here, being a Comparative Youngun'... ;-) )

That said: I do think, based on audacity recordings, that NPR has accidentally killed their mosquito. Maybe it was spreading Zika or something...

[theQueen]

KC - Zika! A blast from the past!