No matter what hotel you've ever stayed at in your entire life, there will be a smoke detector near, or aimed directly at, your face. And there aren't enough pillows or blankets in the world to hide you from it. And it blinks...
blinks...
blinks...
blinks...
And you can't help yourself from waking from the most intense and deep sleep of your life just to see it
blink...
blink...
Because you have to count the delay and ponder why on Earth a smoke detector manufacturer chose Pi to the cubic root of seventeen as the delay time. The interesting thing is that there are two extremities to this annoyance. The first is too slow of a delay. After a flash, you forget about it, get over it, and start to fall asleep. By the time you are just about to touch Level One, it flashes again and the process starts from square one.
The other extremity is when a light flashes too fast and there is barely any delay in between assaults. For example, the power light on my desktop PC. My desk is situated in the opposite corner of my room with the tower facing towards the head of my bed. To conserve energy, I put it into standby mode. If any of you have an Acer Aspire E300 series, you can attest to the agitating pattern of the power LED when it's sleeping. Which, if you ask me, the computer isn't really "sleeping". I'd classify it more as silent turret's. So instead of a nicely paced, calm blink every now and then, it's more like
onoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoffonoff
And did I mention that the LED is BLUE?! In case you are not aware, blue LED's are the most aggravating, bothersome, irritating, troublesome, and vexatious lights in the entire existence of technology; and it's in my face. All night. Flashing rapidly. I swear, a lighting strike inside my bedroom would be more pleasant than the constant onslaught of my PC.
But seriously, who knew that a somewhere-close-to-a-quarter-watt LED could be bright enough to light an entire room?
P.S. Oh, yeah, I know I could just turn my computer OFF, but it's just easier to throw a black hoodie over the front cover.
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