Technology Connections doing a deep dive into something like how a VHS cassette tape works. I’m interested, but if it’s late, the topic also knocks me out in about 15 min.
Technology Connections: REAL SHIT
Technology Connextras: I sleepThis is mine too. Half the time my brain records bits and pieces when I’m asleep and I wake up knowing a few facts about how street lamps work or some shit.
Audiobooks.
Mostly the one I’m currently reading, but I have to listen to that part again the next day.
If that’s too engaging I listen to Nothing much happens, Bedtime stories where as it says, not much is happening, read in a soothing voice.
Same. Whatever I’m currently listening to I add a bookmark before bed and go back to that point the next time I listen.
The I cant sleep podcast. Just a guy reading random wikipedia articles.
A book.
Cosmos with Carl Sagan
There’s a few short fiction podcasts I like for bedtime stories:
- Myths & Legends
- Fictional
- LeVar Burton Reads
- The Magnus Archives
Fucking quiet. Which is damn near impossible to get, which is what gives me insomnia
Reading paper books.
Pink Floyd: Dark side of the moon
https://www.youtube.com/@JohnMichaelGodier
This guy’s videos. He has the perfect cadence and voice for it, and the right video length too. To be perfectly honest I have no idea if the content of the videos is good, but they’re very useful.
This… JMG is the best. Him and Isaac Arthur…
A fan and total darkness.
…my fan broke earlier this year; i’m shopping for a mechanical white-noise generator…
…when our central air conditioner failed during this summer’s hundred-degree spell, i installed a temporary window-box unit and sleeping was BLISS: tinnitus gang needs fans…
Anything presented by Simon Whistler.
Am I married to you?
I use Futurama. It’s my comfort show and I’ve watched it so much it makes me sleepy now haha
Hell yeah Futurama sleepers ftw. There used to be a sub for it.
Anything but jurassic bark 😭
The crickets and frogs outside through an open window.
My kid swears by train-crossing channels on YT.
Same. I’ve listened to so many I have a playlist pared down to just Japanese trains and specific crossings I found on YT. okok, Imma nerd. But still.