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Another episode from the Arkansas Hall Soundtrack, this one features the amazing percussive abilities of some of my hallmates when they get hold of some snare sticks whilst listening to loud music.

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It has been absolutely gourgeous the last few days. I took my MD on a walk the other day just for the heck of it. While I was walking around my apt. I happened to walk by the office just as the schoolbus was dropping off kids. This is a snapshot of my walk by the schoolbus while the kids were unloading.

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The dorm I lived in my freshman year of college was notorious for housing all the freshman riftraft and my hall on the third floor set that standard. Besides activities like room to room porn distribution (occasionally tacked up in the bathroom) and the infamous peanut butter shower bandit (don’t ask) it was usually chaotic and loud. That all the other people were very friendly and social didn’t help either. My roomate and I were both quiet computer geeks and mostly kept to ourselves, trying to either ignore or endure the chaos .

Eventually I decided that since the noise wasn’t going away, I might as well try to record some of it to enjoy for later. Unfortunately, I lost all the original .wavs so all I have left are poorly encoded .mp3s, but they still capture the moment well enough. This one is a recording of the general noise one could expect at any given time of the day or night, displaying the typical volume level of my oh so lovely neighbors.

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It was beautiful weather this afternoon. And despite our reliance on technology and the comforts of conditioned air, there is nothing quite like nice weather to refresh yourself. This was the sound outside the university student center on a simply gorgeous day.

Download Audio: Outside Student Center

When I had a problem with my water meter a few months back, I learned two things:

1. All the meters in my apartment complex communicate the water data to a main server in the office via a 900mhz connnection. How this doesn’t interfere with cordless phones I have no idea. Also, it does this with a AA battery, so if I ever wanted to stop recording my water usage I suppose all I would have to do is remove that.

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2. The water service guys, while friendly and talkative people, seem to think I know more about their proffession than I do. Or at least that was the feeling I got listening to them talk about installing rack mount rectifiers for something or another. Well, interesting sound clip anyways.

Download Audio: Turn that water on John