I hate the sound of alarm clocks. They’re very jarring. Really, any synthetic sound is. …it’s just plain mean.

But, seeing that my inability to wake up at a set hour far out weighs my hate of alarm clocks, I have 3 set around my room (bed side, cell phone on the bathroom counter, and clocky) and while they irritate me every time they go off, I’m a fairly spiteful person while I’m sleeping, so I wind up hitting the snooze button on all 3 of them for about an hour. Yes, this involves getting up, hitting snooze, and then going back to bed. Lather, rinse, repeat 10 minutes later.

Maybe the issue though is the terrible, spite inducing, noise? If that’s the case…. maybe this woodpecker alarm clock by Natalie Duckett (site down at the moment) is the solution.

It at least sounds fairly pleasant while I’m already awake.

[via MAKE]