"what's a CD for grandad"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

on sunday while workin on this*, word of a RECORD PLAYER popped up on hackney freecycle, and i sed ME ME ME and they sed OK

on monday after work i caught the bus to stoke newington to pick it up -- tortuous journey on an over-full 73 gah bah -- and knocked on the door

"hallo i'm here for the record player"
as dad ran upstairs to bring it down, his winsome kids (boys, 4-6 i'd guess) looked at me
"what's a record player?" asked the one nearer me
"it's an ancient technology of interest to just a handful of historians" i replied (i'm great with kids!) "well you say that," said mum coming out of the kitchen grinning and sipping her tea, "but you've no idea how many responses we got after yours!"

anyway D00D i can has phonograrf again yay

*(update: r0b has cut it by 800 words but i haven't looked at the cut yet as i am workin on helvetica today)

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portal to infinity

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i have wired it up, but when the kn0b is switched to phono and records AREN'T playing, it picks up some radio station really quietly and muffled

[koganbot]

We call it "gramophone."

(As for what CD to get Grandpa, you could do worse than CD-Rs of this five-volume set that went up while you were exploring that country to the southeast.)

(Or if that doesn't seem right for Gramps, you could give him the hip-hop mix I made called "Real Men Don't Worry 'Bout Who Anotha Nigga Fucked.")

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the best thing is that since i moved my computer desk i have finally created an ergonomically effective way to choose records and put them on WITHOUT STANDING UP

hence = i am playing GLENN MEDEIROS ftb i just can!

(well i could before but i had to walk across the room so i hardly ever picked merely stuff at random)

:D

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"Today, Medeiros is the host and performs at the Hale Koa Hotel's luau in Waikiki, and is a second grade teacher. He has taught music at St. Joseph's School in Waipahu, and 5th grade at Island Pacific Academy in Kapolei. Now he works at maryknoll highscholl teaching the 9th grade."

Re: :D

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

aw, lovely glenn and his bubbleperm...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

My dad claims that Edison nicked the idea for the phonograph off my great-great-grandad. Or something.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

kat get the story off him! i can put it in my book!

there's a conspiracy theory about the kinematograph also, except in that story edison had the rival inventor ASSASSINATED

[koganbot]

Edison's claim to priority in the movies is pretty flimsy, or at least that was what the books I was reading back in college said - though apparently he did invent a sprocket type grabber or something that made projecting work a lot better.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'll ask him about it when I next speak to him. In true Dad stylee I'm sure he will be v happy to tell the story again :)

[spittake.livejournal.com]

I made a comment about old records to my manager, and she replied "oh, you mean vinyl?"

I did not tell her about wax cylinders.

(you need to get a player for those!)