On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:56:39PM -0800, Nytemuse wrote: > And > likewise, I can't explain to some non-musical people what kinds of > qualities I look for in some white noise music. Yeah... I have yet to find any way to predict what kinds of white noise / background / working music that a person of a given musical background will like. > > Are you actually processing the TV/music at the same time you're doing work? > > or is it white noise in this case? > > Depends on the TV show, music, and work being done. When I'm just doing > some search & replace work or fixing bad code where I already know what > the problem is, then I generally process both. Meaning, I can remember > the story and dialogue or tune and also remember what I changed and what I > did. If I'm writing original content or creating new pages with new > codes/scripts, it's more white noise. *nods* That seems to be pretty consistent with my general set of observations. > > Do you listen to music with clear and obvious lyrics, or no? If you don't, > > that would seem to imply that verbalized language interferes somewhat with > > the part of your brain that's processing the book. That is certainly the > > case with me; I can follow a conversation or process lyrics and read at the > > same time, but my reading speed drops by about 75% when I do. > > Sometimes. If it's a CD I'm REALLY familiar with or if the words are in > another language, I can read to it. But I generally prefer ones w/o > clear lyrics or w/o lyrics at all. :) So I guess I do have a little > trouble with language interfering, but under conditions. I'm sort of the same way, though I have this weird thing were I can filter music such that I'm not linguistically processing the lyrics, only musically processing the voice, and thus I can successfully use it as background. TV, otoh, because it is spoken instead of sung, will give me fits. I can barely read in a room with a TV on if it's at normal listening volumes. I don't know why this is different for me than a group of people conversing in my presence. I just can't block the damned thing out unless it's turned down. > > Query, does chatting include in-person, > > online, phone, or some combination thereof? > > Um, all of the above? eMail, AIM (and like systems), phone, in-person, > eavesdropping... One of the effects of modern technology that I appreciate the most are the multiple avenues of communication that can be used at the same time. I especially like IM, in which the speed (of typing) is just right so that one can carry on two simultaneous threads of conversation with the same person. Anon, Kat