On the weekend I was suffering from fatigued ears. I had had my head in the cans for a couple of hours and the noise level in the house  , oh heck I'm making up excuses for  missing items that are embarrassing.  So in this ego boosting post  I'd like to say that I realize just  how sensitive we are to sound  while at the same time our brains can be totally fooled into hearing what's not really there. 

Quick digression.

I used to mount photographs ( until a gallery took out an injunction  da da bump)  and the degree at which people can that an item isn't in line is amazingly  narrow e.g  under a degree.For me audio has been a little more forgiving  since most people seem to think compressed music with no dynamic range is just the thing , the only thing , so  surely they won't notice a  change in background noise about 60db down ..  er well yeah  chalk that one up to learning experience.   I know more now in  four weeks of practical work  than I have in the two years prior  which  means I'm  two bloody years behind

now the Ego Boo

On my way to lunch today I switched channels in under 1/4 of a word I had  gotten the fact that this was not a radio program but an infomercial.   There was no music or other elements just a female voice but it just didn't sit right. It wasn't real  and I wonder how many people get that "hit" of realization   from such minimal cues and  hopefully if the market does go the way of the conversation  such fakes will become as annoyingly hissy and distasteful that  we can mind-gate them out of our existence.  Before we win the battle with the robots we first need to defeat the marketers