aging

[eeyore_grrl]

Have you heard about Mosquito Ringtones (apparently this is not in fact new, just new to me)? as we age we naturally lose the ability to hear certain pitches. kids are using these as ringtones so teachers (or parents) can't hear the ring.

http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/ ian can hear some i can't. pillar seems to be able to hear more than either of us and wasn't particularly thrilled.

it's kinda creepy.

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[firinel.livejournal.com]

Riordon could only hear down to 19khz. I could clearly hear 17.4khz, and could hear 18 well enough that though I might not notice it for the brief time it would sound for a ringtone would certainly be generally annoyed, even if I wasn't sure why, by a shop keeper using it constantly. I kept clicking it to see where Rio and I differed, and I got a headache, felt a bit off, and got kinda irritated/wanted to get away from it feeling. :/ I think it's plausible even some of the higher ones I can't hear in the slightest would produce the same affect.

Rothko didn't seem to care, he was in the room the entire time we were playing with it.