Years ago i lived on Capitol Hill in Seattle and i never got used to the astonishingly loud noise that two crashing post office carts would make in the dead of night...now i live in a big stone house in Catalunya that is so quiet that i can hear a single woodworm in a beam and where visitors almost invariably sleep in by many hours. All of which to say, i could really relate to your rant!
There has been a lot of recent research and development into quieter supersonic booms with improved plane design. Boom Supersonic is one of them. I believe there could also be other ways to reduce the noise of elevated trains through better construction.
That train tirade was the best thing I've read all week, which is a huge compliment considering its Monday. Is there a support group for people being aurally accosted by trains and other loud noises? Or a white noise generator that will violently shake your house every 8 minutes? I feel like at least one of those is an untapped market for sure.
So Colonel Sanders cursed a baseball team? I just finished reading Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (yeah, it took me 20 years to get around to it.) Baseball fandom is an element in the novel, and Col. Sanders is a character in it. Here's from Wikipedia's article on the book:
Colonel Sanders
An 'abstract concept' who takes the form of a pimp or hustler. He is named after, and takes the appearance of, Harland Sanders, the founder and face of Kentucky Fried Chicken. He helps Hoshino to find the 'entrance stone' to the 'alternate reality.'
Years ago i lived on Capitol Hill in Seattle and i never got used to the astonishingly loud noise that two crashing post office carts would make in the dead of night...now i live in a big stone house in Catalunya that is so quiet that i can hear a single woodworm in a beam and where visitors almost invariably sleep in by many hours. All of which to say, i could really relate to your rant!
I just did an interview of the curator of BarfBags.com. I feel like you could spend your life exploring weird tiny museums like this. https://www.newtomephrases.com/p/ntmp-85-spark-bag
Similar to the Office Museum, there's also the Slide Rule Museum! https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/
There has been a lot of recent research and development into quieter supersonic booms with improved plane design. Boom Supersonic is one of them. I believe there could also be other ways to reduce the noise of elevated trains through better construction.
That train tirade was the best thing I've read all week, which is a huge compliment considering its Monday. Is there a support group for people being aurally accosted by trains and other loud noises? Or a white noise generator that will violently shake your house every 8 minutes? I feel like at least one of those is an untapped market for sure.
So Colonel Sanders cursed a baseball team? I just finished reading Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (yeah, it took me 20 years to get around to it.) Baseball fandom is an element in the novel, and Col. Sanders is a character in it. Here's from Wikipedia's article on the book:
Colonel Sanders
An 'abstract concept' who takes the form of a pimp or hustler. He is named after, and takes the appearance of, Harland Sanders, the founder and face of Kentucky Fried Chicken. He helps Hoshino to find the 'entrance stone' to the 'alternate reality.'