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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 15, 2020 20:39:47 GMT -5
I threw out the last of my cassettes about 5 years ago.. I haven't had a player in ages. I did have some bootleg concerts I bought in college that are missed for sure.
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Post by junkmonkey on Nov 15, 2020 20:43:29 GMT -5
"a daughter born in July 2007,[25] and a son born in December 2008.[26]"
What???
That confused me for a minute. The son was born a year after the daughter and is a year older? and they're already in their mid twenties when my first two kids (who were born before either of them) are in their teens?
Then I realised the numbers in square brackets were the remains of links to footnotes.
I was about to start a really groovy 'Jason Moama is a time-travelling hunk' theory running...
The numbers are footnotes, not ages...they refer to the sources references in wikipedia.
I know. That's why I said, "Then I realised the numbers in square brackets were the remains of links to footnotes."
It was (intended as) a joke.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 15, 2020 20:53:25 GMT -5
I threw out the last of my cassettes about 5 years ago.. I haven't had a player in ages. I did have some bootleg concerts I bought in college that are missed for sure. I had my Tiger R2-D2 Data Droid player for ages that I thought bit the dust when it ironically ate an audiobook for Attack Of The Clones, but it survived for a little while longer than I thought.
I now have a Yellow Sony CFD-E75 (minus the radio aerial) that I got at work for a song that I love |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2020 20:55:36 GMT -5
If I saw the R2D2 for sale in working condition, I'd get it.
I'm a sucker for things like that...there's a DVD player that looks like a Terminator skull too  |
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 15, 2020 21:02:19 GMT -5
If I saw the R2D2 for sale in working condition, I'd get it.
I'm a sucker for things like that...there's a DVD player that looks like a Terminator skull too It also has buttons at the bottom that make some of the classic R2-D2 sounds and it's red eye illuminates with the audio. But yeah, I loved it and was sad to see it bite the dust :/ |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2020 23:48:01 GMT -5
I still have a mini-cassette recorder and tapes that I keep at my drawing table in the studio for when I want to record an idea, thought, bit of dialogue, etc. without stopping working. But since I haven't gotten any work down at my drawing table since I went back to work after the first covid shutdown, I haven't used it in a while.
As for recorded music on cassette, We have a box of old cassettes somewhere on one of the storage platforms down in the basement that has our old cassettes that didn't sell at a tag sale ten years ago, but they haven't seen the light of day in years. The last working cassette layer we had was in the old school all in one stereo we had that was my last working turntable. The turntable and the CD player on it had both ceased to work and it was discarded during that first COVID shutdown when I was setting up my attic space. I had planned on having it up there, but alas, it died and I haven't gotten around to replacing it with something else yet.
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Post by impulse on Nov 17, 2020 13:10:33 GMT -5
I remember cassettes, but I don't miss them at all. They were a pain to use, prone to breaking, and too short. I like my LPs for a novelty, but by and large I am all-in on digital. So much more convenient.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2020 13:26:43 GMT -5
I like digital, it's so convenient but I also like album art on a vinyl lp, and that vinyl smell. I can't smell my mp3s. Just don't sniff your vinyl around people, cuz they look at you funny.
There, i am having a private moment with my 12' vinyl.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2020 13:30:50 GMT -5
A lot of the music I like was only available via like fourth generation dubbing, with lots of warping, hissing and audio cutting out. It's certainly much easier to obtain and manage that stuff now thanks to digital, but it's also a lot clearer, and the "blemishes" of those old cassettes is such a part of the music that it feels like something is missing now.
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Post by impulse on Nov 17, 2020 13:54:51 GMT -5
Yeah, I appreciate album artwork and the cool factor of holding the thing, etc. It's just that for me, the quality and ease of use are so much improved on digital that's hard for me to deal with the analog tech for routine listening. For a novelty or specific experience? Sure, I'll switch on the record player, find the disc, put it on, etc, but if I just want to listen around the house or while I work, it's just a nuisance to get up every 20 minutes or so to flip the side, stop to notice and wonder why the music stopped playing, hearing scratches and skips etc. I get the appeal, and there is a time and place, but for me, it's an exception now.
Though to be honest, that could largely be me. I've kind of grown away from my "collector" side, not just in music, but comics, etc. The stuff just takes up so much room and time that I'd rather not deal with it.
That said, I kept my essential trade paperbacks for repeat reading when I sold the rest of my comics.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2020 13:59:40 GMT -5
What I wish I still had was the reel to reel tape player with all the tapes of music from the 60s and early 70s my parents made (plus tapes of family gatherings or interviews with toddler me). I remember listening to those tapes a lot when I was a pre-schooler, but with all our moves, I can't remember having it after our moves to Maine and back in the early 80s, so I think it was discarded in one of those moves.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 17, 2020 19:38:33 GMT -5
Just curious, who has the oldest music cassettes that still play? Either self-recorded or actual albums.
Was going through some things in a store room and found an unused pack of TDK SA-60s....last time I used tape was in the 90s, and mostly to grab something quick of the radio. Then I'd either go buy a single, an album, until the internet came along and I discovered MP3s....
Might put those tapes to use if only for the nostalgia....
There, I recorded it.
Such a weird question for me, as my dad e-mailed me yesterday to tell me that he found some of my grandmother's old cassette tapes and wanted to know if I wanted them (they were things like Tennessee Ernie Ford and a bunch of old Southern Gospel artists). I told him I did not and that he could take them to the thrift store. Our last cassette player broke about two years ago, but it had been years since I had listened to anything other than a CD or mp3. I still have a bunch of tapes, most of them professionally produced, but there are a few bootlegs that I wouldn't mind transferring to mp3 if I could, live shows from The Dead Kennedys, Nine Inch Nails, and They Might Be Giants that would be worth saving in a different format before the tapes are no longer playable. |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 17, 2020 20:20:19 GMT -5
My sister has gotten coronavirus for the second time! She had it back in late February and early March, but their house cleaner tested positive a couple of weeks back and, quelle surprise, she and her husband have come down with it again. Exactly the same textbook symptoms as before. She's OK though, I believe...it wasn't as bad a bout as last time, maybe because she already had plenty of anti-bodies in her. But still, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde: catching COVID-19 once may be regarded as misfortune; to catch it twice looks like carelessness.
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Post by impulse on Nov 18, 2020 10:50:19 GMT -5
Ugh, sorry Confessor. Once again, I don't even know what to say.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 18, 2020 11:01:54 GMT -5
My sister has gotten coronavirus for the second time! She had it back in late February and early March, but their house cleaner tested positive a couple of weeks back and, quelle surprise, she and her husband have come down with it again. Exactly the same textbook symptoms as before. She's OK though, I believe... it wasn't as bad a bout as last time, maybe because she already had plenty of anti-bodies in her. That's indeed the way the immune system is supposed to work. Each time she's exposed to the virus, The titer of her memory cells and the ensuing production of highly specific antibodies will increase. Accordingly, each new exposure to the virus should lead to fewer symptoms; in fact, for diseases like the common cold or scarlet fever, we don't even realize the virus is there for a second or third time. A genuine worry would be that SARS-CoV-2 might mutate quickly and give rise to numerous new strains, which might require our immune system to start over from scratch; luckily, it doesn't seem to be the case. So we do have a good chance of controlling it with a vaccine. Glad to hear your sister is doing O.K. ! I just read this morning that barely over 50% of the French population would agree to get vaccinated against COVID. I'm starting to think that social media should be considered a serious health risk!!! The number of insane conspiracy theories and ridiculous pseudo-science going around is just nuts. |
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