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[breakinglight11]

A lot of the time if my phone is on my desk, my speakers will start making feedback-like sounds just before it starts ringing. Not when it starts ringing, just before. Sometimes they make that sound spontaneously, but I've become conditioned that when I hear them going off, I expect to be shortly getting a call. 

Tonight I will work until I finish "Woodsmen." There isn't much left to do, just some editing and planning. I am determined to get this done.

I hope I have enough d10s. There's something very satisfying about throwing a handful of dice when you need multiple in a roll. It also make it easier to count successes when you don't need to keep track of both those and the number of dice remaining to reroll because you don't have enough to roll them all at once. 

Eight days till I'm back in Waltham. I need to get my act together on collecting all the stuff I'm going to be bringing with me. I'm trying to put together a list of all the stuff everybody's bringing for communal use, so we can figure out what we have and what we still need.  

Comments

[morethings5.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh my radio does that feedback thing! I feel slightly psychic when I know my phone is about to ring.

[bleemoo.livejournal.com]

rigel just bought GTA4. In GTA4, you have an in-game cellphone. You also have (and by have I mean steal) many cars, in which you can listen to the in-game radio. In the game, if you have the radio on and are about to get a cellphone call, the in-game car radio has simulated in-game feedback. It's insanely well-thought-out.

[laurion]

The feedback is because the cell tower and cell phone ramp up their transmit power to negotiate the connection, and then it bleeds over with so much electromagnetic field strength that it interferes with the electicity and the magnet in your speakers. Different cell phones will do this to different degrees, and better shielded speakers are more immune.

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

Yowza. I'm not a huge GTA fan, but that is impressive. I love little details.

[(Anonymous)]

imagine what that radiation is doing to your brain?