Posted on 02/20/2008 9:15:04 AM PST by dickmc
“Wife bought mine at Costco. Pretty cool.”
That does sound very cool. Thanks for the heads up.
LOL!
“Vinyl is on the come back. Yes it is.”
I kniow it is- I became aware of that in 2007.
Most of my collection is from the 60s and 70s.
still have my original Meet The Beatles, though that one is hardly in mint condition.
Here’s an obsolete skill:
VOTING FOR A CONSERVATIVE IN A GOP PRIMARY AFTER SUPER TUESDAY.
2. - Pig Latin
3. - Use an Abacus
4. - Use a white out strip on a manual typewriter
5. - Hand crank a car
6. - ?
P...... putty glazier.
Wow, it must have been fascinating to watch your grandfather. Do you have any of the shoes and/or boots that he crafted?
My nutty husband still says quite a few words in pig latin. Cracks me up.
No, as I recall the stylus for that was WAY more than $2. IIRC, that was a very highly rated cartridge, and very expensive.
Originally, the Dual turntable was supposed to have the "Ultra Low Mass" Ortophon cartridge, but the place I bought it couldn't figure out how to mount it. I recall that Dual used to advertise that the jeweled, gimbal mounting of the tonearm, combined with the ULM cartridge would allow it to track with the turntable standing on end!
Mark
Actually, I regret it now... But it was something that I grew up with... His "shop" was our garage and basement. I saw him doing stuff, but I never bothered with it. As I said, I really regret it now. I don't have any of his boots, but my aunts do have a few, mostly childrens boots, and I will get them when they pass on.
Mark
I can calibrate the speed of a 5 1/5 floppy drive. Add with out a calculator.
I don’t write checks because I pay my bills online and use a
check card for local purchases. I enter both kinds of payments in what you would call a check register. Those are two of the best changes I ever made.
Yup, I can do all that stuff. It started with tanning rabbit hides and just snowballed from there! LOL! At one point I brain tanned a buffalo hide. There is nothing better than cooking a meal from scratch with ingredients that you’ve grown and harvested.
Long division
Having your change counted back to you.
We had spaghetti last night ... I had canned the sauce last summer. Grew every ingredient in the sauce, the meatballs were made from elk and the italian sausage was from wild hog. Cheated and bought the pasta.
Nice to hear from a kindred spirit.
And that ledger -- is that paper or electronic? Paper ledgers generally outlast electronic form ones in storage by some decades -- the reason is many that the electronic storage formats do no age well. The stuff I had on 8.5 inch floppy is near worthless, and the like.
I keep both a paper ledger and a spreadsheet ledger.
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A caller on the Bob Brinker show last weekend recalled how corrective it is to pay in cash. Corrective to bad spending habits.
Not the same with a debit card. The physical experience of handing over dollar bills and change makes a purchase far more real.
Typing is no longer needed on a resume. EVERYONE including the boss can type now.
And records are back and outselling both of the CD formats they tried to introduce to replace 1980s CDs.
And DJs prefer vinyl so if you are going to spin you have to know how to (A)treat your records nicely and (B)how to put that needle on the record at the right spot. ALL NIGHT LONG.
“Adjusting a television’s color and hue adjustments”
This should still be done, along with brightness, and even sharpness controls.
They are optimized for appliance store viewing. The default is a SALES mode, not a home viewing mode. What’s more your viewing experience is different if you watch it in a brightly lit room with sunlight in daytime, a softly lit room at night, or complete darkness.
And that sharpness control will come into play as you watch the lossy/lousy DVD format. Y’see there are those in the DVD world who will complain if you say a DVD shows artifacting from compression. You the home viewer are supposed to blur the image a bit and maybe make it darker to disguise the fact that it wasn’t sampled at a good enough rate. Never had to do this with my laser disc player.
Vinyl today is better than ever. 180-220 gram pressings are common.
For some quality reissues (from the manufacturer) you can start with Sundazed.
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