From: Wayne Hayes
Subject: Most boring 59MB audio file you'll ever hear
Message-Id: <03Apr23.213416edt.453141-426@jane.cs.toronto.edu>
Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:34:11 -0400

So there's this little lake called "Lake Artemesia" close to campus
here in College Park, Maryland.  "Lake" is a misnomer; it's about the
same size as Grenadier Pond in High Park in Toronto, which is to say
about 1km long by 200-300m wide.  I ride past it frequently while commuting
on my bike, and sometimes at night.

So last night I was heading to a friend's house and the frogs were making
quite a racket.  Then I heard something I haven't heard in a LONG time:
a bullfrog.  So I decided to put my new MP3 player / voice recorder to work.

[Aside: it's the iRiver IFP-195TC, with 512MB of built-in RAM, plus an
FM receiver and recorder that can record live or off the FM.  I'm very
satisfied so far.  Very nice interface, nice sound; highly recommended.]

I left it sitting in the grass in the dark for 2h43m while I went to
visit my friend.

So, if you want to hear 2 hours and 43 minutes of chirping spring
peeper frogs and crickets, feel free to download the following 59MB
audio file.  (Or you can quit the download after a few meg; it's pretty
much all the same.)  You can also hear the subway go by every 10-15
minutes and shake the ground mightily.  Woo-hoo!  Although I haven't
listened carefully to the whole thing yet, I scanned through it at high
speed and I think than damn bullfrog was silent the whole time.

Bastard.

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