Tag: burp

Hey Siri

I need to share this before I forget about it. It is stupid and childish and it makes me smile.

I may have mentioned this on the blog a few hundred thousand times, but I am an Apple guy. iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook Pro, AirPods, AirPods Max, HomePod, HomePod Mini…. the whole kit.

I’ll give a little back story for those who aren’t fellow Apple people. Apple’s digital assistant is Siri. All devices that run Siri have multiple ways to activate it. Anything with a microphone has a voice command. You simply say, “Hey Siri” and it kicks off. It’s kinda fun to be in a room that is filled to the roof with Apple devices (like the room I am in as I type this) and say that voice command and watch all of them light up, though only one will respond.

Anyway, before work this morning I was sitting on the exercise bike trying to get about five minutes of work in. At one point I raised my AppleWatch to look at the Workout app to see how much longer I had to go. While I was looking at my watch I belched (excuse me) and the sound of the belch activated Siri.

That’s all. I told you it was stupid and childish, but Siri responds to burps. That pleased me to no end.

That’s it. Back to your regularly scheduled, belch-free day.

80 Decibels

My AppleWatch has a sound pressure level sensor. There’s a complication on the watch face that I put together that constantly shows the decibel level of whatever is going on around me. I have a mechanical keyboard that I am using to type this post. The clacking of the keys is about 64 decibels. Cool, huh?

A minute ago I was looking at my watch (I have another complication that displays the current value of the timer app. I have a timer running right now and I wanted to see how much time was left) and I unexpectedly burped. Like, not just a burp but a burp. Like an oh my brother you just chugged a can of diet pepsi burp.

80 decibels.

Kick ass.

Questions for the Universe

My wife and I were having an in depth conversation about a fascinating subject and we were left with two important questions:

  1. Do cats burp?
  2. Do cats fart?

There were two related questions along the same lines:

  1. Have you ever heard a cat burp?
  2. Have you ever heard a cat fart?

It is my belief that if our cat, Patches, does indeed fart it will likely be a very high pitched, dainty sounding fart.