I thought that it was just the stylus that my kid broke on my turntable. The record player sat idle for years as a result.
I bought an upgraded stylus, which arrived today. However, after re-situating items in my setup to connect the ‘table, and pulling a crate of records out of storage, I learned the drive belt was wrapped around the gears in the mechanism under the platter. Unwinding the belt and returning it to its proper position was too little, too late.
I’m guessing there was probably some grinding or something stopped and was forced, unbeknownst to me, during a play session with a box of grandma’s 45s.
I believe I had personally played a single record when It was initially connected. In the intervening time I had been focused on converting digital media.
Today I’d love to play and convert analog media, but that project will have to wait.
Recoil’s Want - The Architect Mixes were released in 2010, but are still available for download. The 24-bit WAV files are amazing. There is a video set to the first track, but I haven’t found that for download, yet. The lyrics were my introduction to Nicole Blackman.
EBN - Electronic Behavior Control System — For those who appreciate a little commentary with their beats. Though the track was composed circa 1995, and the video clips and technology come from another era, it still hits.
The All Souls series is the first I have been excited about in a very long time. Going to dig in to this one tonight. Witches, Vampies, Demons. No zombies—at least none that I recall in the first four books.
Alas, my Series 4 Apple Watch and my 2019 MacBook Air are not going to get the next OS releases this fall. Everything else is rolling forward and I will have to think about what eventually will get replaced or recycled.
I’m federated everywhere I can, except on Meta products. I want them to be endpoints and Meta wants me to put them at the top of the pyramid. If they allow inbound posting, I’ll include them, too. Deleted X a while back. Occasionally I follow a link to a post there but generally don’t miss it.
One fun thing in the midst of my CD Re-rip project has been digging into the contents of the “Enhanced CD.”
For the most part, I just grab anything that has the MOV extension.
But it’s a window into a brief period of history when playing video on our computers was amazing. Further, it made production sense to try to cram several video files into the space a song occupies, instead of delivering the content online. It would have taken many hours to download each of those small files.
The later Enhanced CDs really are just interfaces to launch hyperlinks to content on a server somewhere, and probably long offline by now.
The artists seem so young and little, though they were once giant to me.
Just did Ancestry DNA. The surprised at the regional focus. My genetic background is less diffuse than others close to me. Nearly half Swedish and Norwegian. The percentage of German is actually lower than I anticipated.
I have had the diagnosis of ADD (ADHD now) for almost 30 years. I no longer take meds nor do I attend any type of therapy. Instead, I’m protective, and I have the luxury of surrounding myself and working in places with people where I do not have to explain or defend myself.
To be fair (sung in three-part harmony), all operating systems suck. This is one of my three simple truths, to be embraced as a professional who supports such things.
