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by Joel Aufrecht
01:59 PM, 27 Sep 2011
Thesis: any food that cannot be improved with Sriracha sauce can be improved with Bacon Bits:
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by Joel Aufrecht
05:20 PM, 19 Aug 2011
The constant warble of sirens passing our apartment was starting to drive me crazy. I live ten stories up, and have a good view of a few arterial streets in central San Francisco, and just like when I lived on Florida Ave in DC, I seem to be on a favored route for fire trucks. And it often seems like they have nothing to do but send three or ten huge ladder and pump trucks (and those "little" red Fire Commander SUVs) out to every incident, even though you _know_ it's probably either a cat in a tree or somebody with shortness of breathe. (See for yourself). I swear they go by every hour, at least. And you can hear them for blocks and blocks away, what with the hills and all the high-rises. And why do they have to honk and siren while driving through _green_ lights! And then at night, when they try to be a little bit quiet, but instead of a continuous siren you can sort of tune out, it's *beep* *silence* *bwoop?* *silence* *silence* *bwoop?* *blarp!* *bwoop.* *silence* *silence* *silence* *blartbwoop!* all to cross one intersection. So, in an effort to get out my own neurotic mind, I actually started logging every siren I could hear from the apartment. 15 Aug 6:58 am 09:41 am 10:14 am 3:37 pm 5:40 pm 16 Aug 10:48 am 10:51 am 10:59 am 12:02 pm 09:12 pm 17 Aug 5:20 am 10:22 am 1:59 pm 18 Aug 10:17 am 3:32 pm The most interesting thing is that looking at this list makes me feel tranquil. The sirens are much less frequent than I felt, and just compiling the list changed my senses; now the routine traffic noise feels quiet instead of threatening. If sirens are driving you mad, you could do worse than to try this.
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by Joel Aufrecht
01:44 PM, 17 Aug 2011
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