Professor Trevor Cox, an acoustics expert at Salford University, spent a year researching the world's worst sounds. Cox posted clips of 34 objectionable noises online, which were rated by 1.1mil visitors. In 2007, the sounds voted most unpleasant were:
1. vomiting 2. microphone feedback 3. wailing babies 4. train wheels scraping on tracks 5. a squeaky seesaw 6. badly played violin 7. whoopee cushion 8. an argument in a soap opera 9. the hum of electricity 10. a Tasmanian devil's scream
DRIGGLE-DRAGGLE -- slovenly clothing "She insisted in dressing in hand-me-down driggle-draggle."
This is Terri's first full-length novel (her two-part Star Trek: Corps of Engineers eBook Remembrance of Things Past was 51,000 words, which is strictly speaking novel-length), and I couldn't possibly be more proud. *beams*
Portals... will be the memoirs that Dr. Elizabeth Weir was seen writing in the SGA episode "The Return Part 1."
(This is also why I've been up since 6.15. Fandemonium is a British publisher, so news from them tends to come first thing in the morning, and Terri, naturally, woke me up with the news.)
The month of April is shaping up nicely -- it looks like I'll have three comic books out that month: the second issue of Farscape: Strange Detractors, the Star Trek: Alien Spotlight: Klingons one-shot, and the first issue of the Comic Book That Shall Not Be Named (at least until the next Previews comes out). All in time for me to turn 40. *grin*