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I was biking across the stretch of patchy, squelchy grass in front of the Simon building listening to Surgeon, British DJ and purveyor of a clinical brand of the proverbial 'banging techno', on my iPod. Seeing a magpie in my path I barked at it and it flapped away to my right, landing a safe distance away. I did not scare it exactly but I certainly made it jump.

Though I am not saying the music definitely caused me to react to the bird in this way, I am reasonably sure that if I had been listening to some Debussy, I would not have barked at the magpie.