test please delete

[zeitghost]

Unfortunately it means that there's no Sweeney tonight, which is a bit upsetting...

Ho hum.

[BrowneIssue]

And that curly haired astronomer fellow is busy playing his axe...

Take the tablets, zeity.

[zeitghost]

Have you been taking your tablets?

Yup... they don't seem to be doing much good though...

[BrowneIssue]

Unfortunately it means that there's no Sweeney tonight, which is a bit upsetting...

Ho hum.

So you don't need to hear that NickFitz (who is in the shower so don't flush the loo) was watching The Sweeney on DVD. So I won't tell you.

[zeitghost]

#83638





Well done!

I thank you...

someone's been busy today... 400 odd posts since last I was here...

[BrowneIssue]

Zeity, an idea.

Take a person whose hearing is failing through old age.

Do a hearing test of specific frequencies and determine their ability to hear at each frequency. That gives you a sort of bell-shaped graph, I expect.

Have a sample of the normal hearing population as a reference. Very likely a bell-shaped graph.

Have another graph which is the range of normal speech.

Produce a custom hearing aid for the individual that shifts the frequency range of normal speech into the range the person can hear. I expect the range would need to be 'condensed' and moved up or down.

In this way, the individual could hear sort of normally in that they would still have a range of frequencies an still at normal volume.

Am I right in thinking the electronics in this is now feasible?

[NickFitz]

Is this sort of thing (BCS Geospatial specialist group) of any interest to you? Linky.

Thanks, I'll have a look later.

Off to t'pub now - see you alter folks

(That's such a good typo, I'm going to leave it there )

[zeitghost]

Got home from the FMB bar (alone, as always - the only people who like exchanging witty banter with me there are the barmaids when they're being paid for it, and the doormen as they show me out )

I shall now watch the first episode of Boys from the Blackstuff - because I can, and because it's true.

If I said that in General they'd burn me - either because they knew what I was talking about, or because they didn't

Then again, that lot would burn Gandhi for being a Paki who didn't contribute sufficiently to the turnover of the food marketing industry

Gis a Job, I could do that... poor old Yosser...

Wot on earth has Freddy got on his head?

It looks absolutely ridiculous...

[zeitghost]

Anyway, I shall now retire to my sadly-neglected bedchamber

Nighty night - or good morning, if you live at that point of the clock's eternal circle

[zeitghost]

Goodnight/Morning

That as well