Shrinkage
You know how a wooden door will swell in the summer and shrinks in the winter? I think the cartilage in my ears is like that, contracting when its cold outside too. This has caused the hole that funnels into the ear canal to enlarge, allowing my earphones to no longer fit securily in the pinna* (the fancy word for outer ear). So lately I have been constantly fussing with them whenever I listen to my ipod, trying to keep them from falling out . . . and now that I think about it, months ago my ear used to hurt from having the ear piece jammed in . . . an interesting phenomenon.
* fact of the day from Wikipedia: the human pinna selects for sounds in the frequency range of human speech . . . "the more you knoooowwww"
posted by gordian knot @ Tuesday, February 21, 2006
2 Comments:
I hate to break it to you but ears just continue to get larger the older you get. So at your rate of growth, when you are my age you will be able to put boom boxes in your ears.
i can see the shooting star flash across the screen now. however, i think you can use that chime and slogan only after a c-list nbc celebrity tells you helpful information.
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