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Very scary, it would be very hard to see this happen to someone close to me. But important to be able to recognize it. Nicely composed article.

Awesome article. I have to agree with each of them, especially the repetitive ones. I get tired of the relentless, blatant 'sex sells' commercials. It's frustrating when you have small kids around, and hate to expose them to some of these way too sexual commercials.

Hmmm! I hadn't heard of these before but it's a neat concept. Thanks for sharing this with us!

Good scan, good points, a number of which I have learned along the manner additionally (humility, grace, layoff the controversial stuff). Can share with my colleagues at work as we begin blogging from a company perspective.

I'm grateful for the new update, over night I went from not listed (a site that was less then a month old) to first page on a few keywords.

JShea - No, I can tell louder or quieter, but not coming towards me or going away. Obviously if I can see the, say, car in the street, I know what's going on. Finding it is usually a matter of luck or deduction though!

Terry - I didn't know that you could do that! LOL Nice trick! That's definitely the best of both worlds there.

The nice thing with my implant is that if I want I can take it out and dive into the nice quiet blanket. It would be weird for me not being able to control the volume of things around me. Its a nice way to take a nap in a busy airport.

There's a phantom scent of bread floating around me as I read this article, lol. :D There's nothing quite like the smell of baking bread. Mmm, heavenly. I'm going to give my mom this recipe and subtly hint that she should make me some in her bread machine. ;)

I have stereo hearing but monovision, due to an uncorrected lazy eye. I suppose that trying to explain stereo hearing to someone deaf in one ear is like trying to explain 3D vision to someone like me. Without the second sense receiver, the sensual information is flat. With it, you get a fuller picture -- with sound, the picture of direction and movement of the sound. With vision, you get a better picture of depth and distance. But you should still be able to tell, somewhat, the direction of sound -- whether it's coming toward you or away from you -- just as I can tell, somewhat, how far away something is from me.

Run-on sentences are the biggest bane to comprehension out. Glad to have dropped the reminder here. :D

It's the direction of sound thing that fascinates me most. My (stereo hearing) friend once stood behind me at a Roger Waters's concert. She wrapped her arms around my waist, so that she was positioned to speak a running commentary into my left ear.

She kept telling me precisely where the sound was now. Sometimes it was over there; sometimes over here. I think I got it then, but still only in imagination. It was quite a bizarre experience!

I'm glad that you've got new interests in life. I'm not convinced that I want stereo hearing though. You'd have to give up the peace and quiet part of it, because I imagine that stereo is ridiculously noisy.

Thank you Katie, I appreciate the tweet!

Thanks, Jo. I tend to write long lines, and have to consciously be aware of when my lines are getting drawn-out and hard to read -- after all, I can read them fine, but then, I wrote them! :P This article was a good reminder. And I love your examples. :D

#4 is not true. depending on your mobo set up. There are alot of mobo's out there that have a Wake on LAN feature. This is met for large networks where an admin might have to take a look at your computer when your not there and its off. I have used this myself on my personal computer several different times. It used to be this feature was turned on by default but i don't know if this is true any more.

The best way that I can tell you is its like walking around all day with an eye patch on so you get used to no depth then removing it. Before music and movies sounded flat, you probably under stand how that is but people that have there hearing cant grasp that idea. Now I find myself looking to where the sound comes from. It can be a problem when I'm playing music that keeps switching from right to left, my wife tells me that my eyes go back and forth like the old 50's black cat clock. I hope that someday you find something that can help you because it really opens new things up. For the first time I am looking to go to a play with my wife, I think I'm going to surprise her with tickets to one soon. I avoided them before because I wouldn't of been able to hear half of what is going on.