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Morning, and happy Eleventy day! As it appears no rapture will be occuring we can be confident that adventures with a madman in a box will continue.

While I wait, I'm gonna get morbid on y'all for a bit here, because I want to talk about this article in the NY Times about palliative sedation (more bluntly called terminal sedation).

Do not follow behind the cut if you are not up for talk of death and dying.

( Going with a whimper works for me )

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Now that I am sitting at the brother's restaurant waiting on my download (go FASTER, I needs my Eleventy) let us talk about something far less morbid.

Headphones. Or more specifically vidding/vids and headphones. My preference both for making and watching vids is to do so with headphones. Maybe it is that I have difficulty blocking ambient sounds (don't ever try to talk to me in an airport, all I will hear is 'wahwahwahwah' like the Peanuts teacher), but without headphones I have a lot of difficulty picking up the kind of subtleties in music that I love to play with and love seeing other vids play with.

What leaves me pondering this is when I then watch vids on a regular tv or with speakers and how much of that feels like it is lost or reads differently. So, I guess my question is how much of that is my weird hearing issues, and how much is that universal. And is it better to vid assuming the viewer will be using speakers/television?