Amanda and I are running the Chicago Marathon this year. We’re hoping our friends will want to come watch us run on Sunday, October 12!
We are running as part of a fundraising group that supports the Chicago Children’s Memorial Hospital. So, Amanda made a fun video showing her unique Rocky Balboa training methods.
Anyway, hope you enjoy the video. If you like it and want to sponsor us, head to Amanda’s donation site and make a pledge to support her. Or, you can pledge to support me here.
I can hear up to 17.1kHz. Steve can only hear up to 14.7kHz. So I win
this round. Although maybe that means he can save more disc space and
compress his MP3s a little more?
If you want to perform your own test, you can use Python on Windows as
follows:
from winsound import Beep
Beep(14000, 1000)
14000 is the frequency 14kHz and 1000 is beep duration 1000ms (1
second). Crank up the frequency until you can’t hear it.
Update: alternate MATLAB one-liner for doing the same:
Update 2: Paul says he can hear up to 16.9kHz well but also claims to faintly hear 18-20kHz. I think that means he wins, because I cannot hear above 17.1kHz at all. He said he used headphones whereas I used crappy laptop speakers, so I consider that cheating a little.
Update 3: So apparently, the results are very dependent on the speakers being used. I tested Amanda at home using the Bose speakers and she can hear up to 17.5kHz. Funny thing: with these speakers, I can hear up to about 18.4kHz. Not sure what to make of that except that I’m winning again.
Last weekend, I became a proud double-uncle when my brother’s family grew from 2 to 4 overnight! Ashley Nicole and Lindsey Grace were born at 12:30 in St. Louis on January 12, 2006.
A journalist goes undercover as a salesman at 2 car dealerships. Read
it if you’re considering buying a car (or at least look at the
recommendations at the end).
A transcript of Robert F. Kennedy’s amazing speech about the some of the horrific things that we are doing to our environment. It touches on everything from coal-burning power plants to mercury in the water to strip mining to cultural values to draft dodging. Long, but well worth the read.
Steve is quite the photographer, getting some great-looking night pictures of us all last night. So here’s Alan & Amanda, Laura & Kris, then Dawn & Steve.
A sampling of thier proofs is now available. The couple did such
a great job of looking good, it must have made the photographer’s job
easy — some great pictures were the result.
Note: to download the photos on your computer, just go to the following
website. You can replace the number 16 with any picture number from 1
to 45 to see other photos.
