{"id":6317,"date":"2016-07-28T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2016-07-28T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T02:27:08","slug":"at-the-sound-of-my-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=6317","title":{"rendered":"At The Sound of My Voice . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a link to an interesting article<\/a> on some recent research on what people think about their own voices. It turns out that many people “cringe” when listening to their own voices played back from a recording. <\/p>\n

And I thought that I was the only one !!<\/p>\n

Albeit — another study<\/a> found that when people were asked to rate their impressions regarding the attractiveness of another by listening to their voice, on average they rated themselves most attractive (i.e., they were asked to rate 3 or 4 different voice samples, and unbeknownst to the listener, one of the voices was their own). So perhaps many of us don’t like the sound of our own voices, but we still like the image of the person behind the voice. Ah, we humans are such complex creatures.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s all from me for tonight. Despite all the Democratic Convention hubbub, I don’t find anything too interesting going on in politics right at the moment. But here are two “other shoes” waiting to drop. First — regarding Hillary — good old Julian Assange and Wikileaks got the convention off to a rough start with the DNC leaks about Bernie Sanders. And then there was the Russian angle . . . were those e-mails given to Wikileaks by Russian government interests who obtained them via hacking, who then saved them up for the start of the Convention, for maximum damage and chaos? <\/p>\n

We can’t say for sure right now. But don’t forget that Assange also claims<\/a> that he has a cache of incriminating e-mails from Hillary’s “damn” e-mail server from her tenure as Secretary of State, yet to be released to the public. And even though the FBI let Clinton off the hook, if Wikileaks has some juicy stuff courtesy of the Russian Army or whoever, that could be a bombshell as far as the election goes. Is this going to be another matter of timing? I.e., are the Russians going to give Wikileaks the good stuff just before the election, say around October 30? Something to think about.<\/p>\n

The second political shoe in the air fits Donald Trump, and also has some Russian leather to it. I.e., conservative commentator George Will just speculated that Trump is refusing to release his tax returns because they will show that Trump has strong financial ties with Russian oligarchs. And that could also be a bombshell. Trump is controlling the damage so far by making up a wide range of excuses for his secrecy. But you can bet that a host of investigators are staying up late working this question. And if one of them hits paydirt before November, well, get ready for some more big headlines. This time, advantage Clinton. <\/p>\n

Even if things are boring at the moment (same old Democratic blah blah), there still may be more fun on the way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a link to an interesting article on some recent research on what people think about their own voices. It turns out that many people “cringe” when listening to their own voices played back from a recording. And I thought that I was the only one !! Albeit — another study found that when people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6319,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}