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11/11/09 That odd chirping noise I make
16 years ago
Just over a year ago, I was working away at my desk in the hot summer nite, and the crickets were doing there thing. Then they all stopped except for one, which promptly did the first seven notes of the Darth Vader song. Then they all came back with no distinguishing pattern.
I've worked on making the cricket chirp, and then worked on trying to make it a musical cricket. I'm not doing too well at it, since it's been over a year and I can't quite nail it on the first try.
The sound is actually quiet loud that I can make, and if I'm in public .... NO ONE HEARS IT!!! Because it's just hard wired in that it's normal noise. My friend knows the sound from me, and I can get only his attention from up to 100 feet away with out any one else looking up or twitching.
As of today, I found that humans aren't the only ones who ignore it. I was out on the disk-golf course and I lost my disk. I was just a little ways away when I here the trampling sounds of a deer (It's really cool to see them just trampling along), and I wanted to get .... it's attention before I scare it too badly. So I do my chirping noise. No luck, it doesn't get the deers attention, it gets in plain site of me, and I see him clearly to. I shift my weight and make twig breaking and rustling. It's a buck, a young one by my guess of how small he was. Any ways, he looks up straight at me and I don't want to scare him, so I cricket chirp. He relaxes and looks away like there was nothing there. ..... LIKE there was NOTHING there, I started to wave my hands to get his attention, and it was like "Gasp! HUMAN!" and he bounds off because he realized I was so close.
I would say this was a .... good 10 second confrontation, maybe 15 at the most.
I was thinking, with my chirping and a baseball bat, I might be able to hunt deer! Imagine my hunting bragging rights if I was to walk out of a forest with a bloody baseball bat and a deer being dragged along behind me! Seriously, I look unfit even though I'm not.
Anyways, that's it for now. I'll continue this madness later
I've worked on making the cricket chirp, and then worked on trying to make it a musical cricket. I'm not doing too well at it, since it's been over a year and I can't quite nail it on the first try.
The sound is actually quiet loud that I can make, and if I'm in public .... NO ONE HEARS IT!!! Because it's just hard wired in that it's normal noise. My friend knows the sound from me, and I can get only his attention from up to 100 feet away with out any one else looking up or twitching.
As of today, I found that humans aren't the only ones who ignore it. I was out on the disk-golf course and I lost my disk. I was just a little ways away when I here the trampling sounds of a deer (It's really cool to see them just trampling along), and I wanted to get .... it's attention before I scare it too badly. So I do my chirping noise. No luck, it doesn't get the deers attention, it gets in plain site of me, and I see him clearly to. I shift my weight and make twig breaking and rustling. It's a buck, a young one by my guess of how small he was. Any ways, he looks up straight at me and I don't want to scare him, so I cricket chirp. He relaxes and looks away like there was nothing there. ..... LIKE there was NOTHING there, I started to wave my hands to get his attention, and it was like "Gasp! HUMAN!" and he bounds off because he realized I was so close.
I would say this was a .... good 10 second confrontation, maybe 15 at the most.
I was thinking, with my chirping and a baseball bat, I might be able to hunt deer! Imagine my hunting bragging rights if I was to walk out of a forest with a bloody baseball bat and a deer being dragged along behind me! Seriously, I look unfit even though I'm not.
Anyways, that's it for now. I'll continue this madness later
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