Strange and insignificant abilities

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I can flip coins with my belly. I can also flex my pecs to any music [eat your heart out, Arnold!]

how exactly does one flip coins with their belly??


i can make maps of places.

belly rolls with focused isolation of the abs. Also,I think the ability to make maps is very significant. and cool

Holding a scotch-tape dispenser with one hand, I can with the other hand alone end up with five small pieces of tape, one hanging off each figure, ready to use.

I can make my uvula dance. I can wiggle one ear, the other, or both at once. I can flare one nostril or the other or both at once. I can make faux-flatulent sounds by placing the heel of one or the other or both hands on the corners of my mouth and blowing. that used to get me in trouble in elementary school. maybe it was tourettes? I have perfect pitch, fat lot of good it does me musically as I don't seem to have sufficient musical talent to play any instrument adequately, but I keep trying. at least I can tune people's instruments for them. I used to be able to put both my legs behind my head. no more.

You have me beat! I can only do both nostrils simultaneously. Ears independently, or nose and ears together. The rest are beyond my meager skills.

I found that if you concentrate on hearing your sniffing on one side of the other, your nostrils will cooperate automatically.

I can swallow 8 omega 3 pills at once

wow you sound like you might want to start buying the 1 gram kind instead of the 300 mg kind.

I can digitally restore old and worn recordings to something more approximate of what they might have sounded like brand new, but record collectors are a strange bunch per se, because they LIKE to hear their old records with all the hisses and scratches and distortion, to them that is "music" to their ears and my services are most assuredly unwelcome at any price.

I can get any cat to let me pet him/her.

That's a skill I would love to have. I can twirl a baton, except for the throwing it up in the air and catching it part. Well, I can throw it, but there's no telling where it'll end up. and I learned the entire operatic parts of Carmen and Niklaus from Les Contes d'Hoffmann when I was a kid and still remember most of them. I just can't sing worth a crap.

I do that too and have had the same reaction. Interestingly I just read a book on the history of recording called "Perfecting Sound Forever," and apparently the argument over what constitutes a "pure" recording goes back to Edison, who thought it meant the sound of the performance and nothing else, and Victor records who thought that "pure" meant capturing the performance space (ambience, reverberations, etc.).

But scratches and pops? No. Don't miss them. However, there is one sound that might have a positive effect. If you put a perfectly clean vinyl disc on a perfectly balanced turntable, you will still hear a slight hiss-- like pink noise. And that background feathers everything else on the record. even though it has no basis in the reality of the musical performance, this noise is what I and many engineers believe is the softening element that many people who prefer vinyl are subconsciously reacting to.

I guess some of us are more sensitive to sounds than others- what sounds like a soft hiss to some sounds to me like a cacophony. I hear in such-
*high treble hiss
*upper midrange rushing
*lower midrange groove wall roar
*up to 300 cycles or so I hear rumble from disc bearings and subtle low-frequency variations in the vinyl surface.

typical phonographic crackle though, tends to overwhelm those other noises which only become apparent after CEDAR processing.

I can wiggle my nose and snap my toes.