But it is a fun little meter...

for instance, a good way to get yourself a nice couch-sleeping spot would be to hold it up the next time your wife is yelling at you and ask her to keep it under 60 dB.

another example, my friend's car has a big old hole in his muffler, and he refuses to get it fixed. So I measured the dB level in the passenger seat and sent him some email links to hearing loss websites.

Also you can look up your local noise ordinance and find out what volume you can crank things up to while remaining below the legal dB level. It would be fun to explain to the police when they showed up to ask you to turn it down that you were technically "below the legal limit"

I'm sure I'll come up with some more as time goes by...

[black]-"The further we go and older we grow, the more we know, the less we show."[/black]