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November 14, 2004
The magic of nothingness
This morning I set out early (about noon) to procure the Bose noise-cancelling headphones. These are the headphones that produce an equal-and-opposite sound to cancel-out background noises like humming, buzzing, jet engines, etc. Chicago is not a very loud city--places like Bangkok and Athens are much louder with their thousands of motorbikes and large industrial sites and ports nearby. Nonetheless, I now realize that I live bathed in 10-20 decibels of noise that radiates up from the city below, over from the elevator shafts, and all around from the air handling system. All of this disappears with the magic headphones. And the best thing: when local urchins sit below my windows (albeit 850 feet below) and bang on buckets for the amusement of brainless suburb-dwellers, that horrible sound gets cancelled too.
At the office, we sometimes do these psychological profiles, one of which declares that I am an "extrovert." Maybe... I suppose maintaining this website (at a cost of $250/yr) would be some evidence of extroversion. Back in the States, I also find lots of reasons to like introversion. The biggest is that I really like being in a place where conversations are conducted in languages I don't understand. I always wondered what people in the streets of Paris, Oslo, or Krakow were discussing. If it's anything like what people here discuss, I am happy not to know the language. Religion. Personal problems. Shopping. "What a tall building." Into a mobile phone: "Yeah, I'm shopping on Michigan Avenue." That one is my favorite. Why is it that I never hear anyone on Oak Steet say anything similar?
Posted by adrianjo at November 14, 2004 11:42 AM
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