Earworm Eraser

Are you afflicted by earworms? I get them all the time, but my sister is plagued by them to the extent that she simply doesn’t listen to music on occasions when she otherwise might for fear that a song will be stuck in her head for days or more. My very superficial searching provided more data on the subject than I would have guessed existed — just look at all this research! Who knew scientists had so much time on their hands? But thank goodness they do bc, according to NPR, “Around 90% of people report this problem at least once a week, according to a 2011 study in the journal Psychology of Music.” And thanks to all that research, we can all benefit from the Earworm Eraser, “a 40-second audio track designed specifically to squash earworms.” 

I tried it. It worked! YMMV. 

Hello world! Again and again and again and again…

Hello again, Internet. Did you miss me? 

Of course you didn’t, but as The Cure tells us “if you pick up on it quick, you can say you were there . . . ‘cause everyone jumping everybody else’s train….”  The Cure is always cor

rect.

The thing about having your own little space on the Internet, your own tiny soapbox, your own microscopic megaphone, is that it doesn’t have to make a lot of sense. I just wa

 

 

tched the 2009 Star Trek movie with my kids and one of the little themes is that Spock learns that he

 

doesn’t always act logically or agree with “the logical” choice or action, and that’s ok. He’s part human, and sometimes we humans make things that really make no sense, but they often turn out ok, re

 

gardless. 

There’s lots of reasons to do this and I’ll probably talk about some of them more than I should in the future because one of the topics I’ve been interested in since I started blogging over 20 years ago is blogging itself. But those thoughts are for another day. Today I will say that recently learned about Simon Willison’s Weblog from John Gruber at Daring Fireball and Willison says simply: 

You should start a blog. Having your own little corner of 

the internet is good for the soul!

My soul feels better already.