https://davidhardiman.com A safe and legal literary drug. Now available in prescription strength. Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:52:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://davidhardiman.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Header-32x32.jpg https://davidhardiman.com 32 32 https://davidhardiman.com/blog/least-popular-sleep-inducing-white-noise-sounds/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:50:29 +0000 https://davidhardiman.com/?p=6549 The sound of a hummingbird that can’t quite find the tune Gentle rain falling on a corpse (Once they tell you that, you can’t get it out of your head) William Shatner singing the Beatles “Why………Don’t-We-Do-It-in-the-Road” A recorded loop of “Please listen carefully as some of our menu items have changed.” Another recorded loop of […]

The post Least Popular Sleep-Inducing White Noise Sounds first appeared on davidhardiman.com.]]> 6549 https://davidhardiman.com/blog/whats-in-your-sleep-app/ Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:09:49 +0000 https://davidhardiman.com/?p=5811 Top 10 (or so) Least Popular “White Noise” Ambient Sounds Rain falling on a corpse An endless loop of “Please listen carefully as some of our menu options have changed” Waves crashing on a Land Rover parked too close to the shore Nail guns operated by the Marine Drum & Bugle Corps Wind blowing through […]

The post What’s in Your Sleep App? first appeared on davidhardiman.com.]]> 5811 https://davidhardiman.com/blog/way-too-much-information-about-celebrity-white-noise-marketing/ Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:27:24 +0000 https://davidhardiman.com/?p=4067 Celebrities trade on their famousness. It’s a commodity of recognition easily monetized courtesy of the endorsement market and the underlying calculus often plays out like this: “Me like that person. If me imitate, me become like them. Then happy.”   Now, let’s cut to the idea of where Ambien’s magic ends, and white noise sleep-inducing […]

The post Way Too Much Information about Celebrity White Noise Marketing first appeared on davidhardiman.com.]]> 4067 https://davidhardiman.com/blog/apple-announces-new-white-noise-sleep-app-for-weirdos/ Mon, 25 Sep 2017 07:11:48 +0000 https://davidhardiman.com/?p=4064 Background White noises designed to promote deep & restful sleep in the Loosely Wrapped Endless loop of Oktoberfest Burping A soothing recording of a woman continuously saying, “The Sandman will see you now.” Repeated sound of a cat scrambling to get out of a bathtub with 2” of water in it For the Zen sleeper: […]

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