The day I was born, the doctor decided I wasn’t done cooking yet and stuck me in an incubator.  I don’t conciously remember it, but I am willing to bet the incubator made a soft steady shhhhh sound that I now can’t sleep without.  White noise.  As a kid I went to bed with a humidifier.  Not the noiseless ones you buy today, but the old ’70s models that ran on a chainsaw motor.  These days I use a fan.  In the dead of winter when it’s 15 below, I’ll still have that sucker blowing full blast, shhhhing me to sleep.

But what happens when due to a mild snoring condition, your girlfriend requests you sleep in another room or risk accidental suffication by pillow?  Enter http://www.simplynoise.com/ .  Last night after being banished to the deathly quiet TV room, I googled “white noise”.  Google suggested I take it a step further with “white noise generator”.  I hit the jackpot on the first click with simplynoise.com.

Simplynoise really is simple.  You can download the white noise, but there really is no need as the site plays a continuous seemless loop of white noise.  You can control the volume and select from three types of noise:

White – the high end static of TV snow

Pink – mid ranged sound similar to a rushing waterfall

Brown – low end whoosh like a fan or air conditioner

Brown was the easy winner for me.  I set the volume, let it ride all night and slept like a baby in an incubator.

A conclusion paragraph normally requires multiple sentences, but in this case I am going to go with the Simplynoise motto: enough said.

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