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pseydtonneI'm on vacation. This obviously means I'm still logged into the office network. I have to hand my cases to individual team members. There are eight people suitable to the cases I have and 20 cases to hand out. I started on this process in the morning and I'm still working on it. It's a slog.
I have learned something wonderful about my company issue laptop: it can rip a entire music CD in about five minutes (it may be less but I wasn't really timing it). This is using CDex with the 192 VBR to 320. In other words, I'm ripping my CD collection at a quality even I can accept on a laptop and the laptop isn't even concerned. I write a few lines, swap disks.
Man, I'm juiced. I've added about 2 GB of music this evening. We're talkin' variety here. I tossed in the first CD I ever bought used -- Replacements, Pleased To Meet Me, which came out in 1987 and I bought in early 1989; I think it was the fourth CD I ever bought. Then I tossed in some of the stuff I bought this summer. In fact, take a look at the list and see whether there are bands that intrigue you:
A - Hi-Fi Serious
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Boards Of Canada - the campfire headphase, in a beautiful place out in the country and music has the right to children
Cab Calloway - Are You Hep to the Jive?
Death From Above 1979 - Heads Up
DJ Danger Mouse - The Gray Album
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
godfaTHErs - Birth, School, Work, Death
Great Big Sea - Up
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Long Fin Killie - houdini
Michael Manring - Soliloquy
Michael Penn - Free-for-all
Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Nields - Gotta Get Over Greta
The Pursuit Of Happiness - The Downward Road
Paw - Dragline
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me and Hootenanny
Rare Air - Hard to Beat
Self - Breakfast with Girls
Spring Heel Jack - 68 Million Shades
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Swords Project - Metropolis
Trash Can Sinatras - Cake
Walt Mink - Miss Happiness
Whistlebinkies - Wanton Fling
I have only made a small dent in my collection. The stack above is perhaps 5% of my music CDs, let alone the vinyl (many of which are much better albums). I have much work ahead and all of it can happen in the background.
I was thinking that percentage of discs I've had since high school or college would be larger. That Walt Mink album came out my freshman year of college (1992) but I only replaced my cassette copy recently (after all, they used the title track in a TDK blank tape commercial for years). The Whistlebinkies came to my college from Scotland when I was a senior in college (1995 or 1996).
Wow... commercials for blank cassettes. There isn't even a large enough mark-up to advertise blank CDs on television. "Why watch TV when you could be bootlegging stuff?" Memorex should sponsor eMule when you consider how much of their product will be the medium for the transferred data.
No, I don't have a real point. I'm simply reflecting on the changes. They've hired a bunch of recent college grads at my office. Most of these kids are 22 to 24, meaning they were born during Reagan's first administration. They've never seen a 15-cent first class stamp (that's 1979) nor double-digit inflation (1970 through 1982). They've never dialed a phone number nor can they understand why we had to lease phones from "the phone company". They have no idea what Betamax was. They think I'm making stuff up when I explain about tapered leg jeans. Then again, they never had to suffer antenna television nor the Cold War.
Does it ever bug you out that we worried about being ten seconds from nuclear annihilation from a country that isn't even explicable let alone extant? When I was seven (1982), I worried about nukes all the time. Now the Air Force base that had the job of watching out for these nukes is so long gone that it's only remembered for the flop of a Woodstock revival held on it in '99.
Okay, I guess I'm a codger. I caught myself enjoying Good & Plenty today. Next I'll be sitting in front of the bowling alley telling kids "when I was your age, you only had top-loading VCRs to tape your TV shows and they cost $400. Then again, gas cost 85 cents a gallon but the speed limit was 55. Oh, and we were supposed to go metric but then..."
Actually, VCRs were $400 in 1983 but gas wasn't down to 85 cents again until 1986 and VCRs were down to $250 by then. Oh just break out the billy club or I won't stop talking...
-get off my lawn you brats!
I have learned something wonderful about my company issue laptop: it can rip a entire music CD in about five minutes (it may be less but I wasn't really timing it). This is using CDex with the 192 VBR to 320. In other words, I'm ripping my CD collection at a quality even I can accept on a laptop and the laptop isn't even concerned. I write a few lines, swap disks.
Man, I'm juiced. I've added about 2 GB of music this evening. We're talkin' variety here. I tossed in the first CD I ever bought used -- Replacements, Pleased To Meet Me, which came out in 1987 and I bought in early 1989; I think it was the fourth CD I ever bought. Then I tossed in some of the stuff I bought this summer. In fact, take a look at the list and see whether there are bands that intrigue you:
A - Hi-Fi Serious
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Boards Of Canada - the campfire headphase, in a beautiful place out in the country and music has the right to children
Cab Calloway - Are You Hep to the Jive?
Death From Above 1979 - Heads Up
DJ Danger Mouse - The Gray Album
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
godfaTHErs - Birth, School, Work, Death
Great Big Sea - Up
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Long Fin Killie - houdini
Michael Manring - Soliloquy
Michael Penn - Free-for-all
Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Nields - Gotta Get Over Greta
The Pursuit Of Happiness - The Downward Road
Paw - Dragline
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me and Hootenanny
Rare Air - Hard to Beat
Self - Breakfast with Girls
Spring Heel Jack - 68 Million Shades
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Swords Project - Metropolis
Trash Can Sinatras - Cake
Walt Mink - Miss Happiness
Whistlebinkies - Wanton Fling
I have only made a small dent in my collection. The stack above is perhaps 5% of my music CDs, let alone the vinyl (many of which are much better albums). I have much work ahead and all of it can happen in the background.
I was thinking that percentage of discs I've had since high school or college would be larger. That Walt Mink album came out my freshman year of college (1992) but I only replaced my cassette copy recently (after all, they used the title track in a TDK blank tape commercial for years). The Whistlebinkies came to my college from Scotland when I was a senior in college (1995 or 1996).
Wow... commercials for blank cassettes. There isn't even a large enough mark-up to advertise blank CDs on television. "Why watch TV when you could be bootlegging stuff?" Memorex should sponsor eMule when you consider how much of their product will be the medium for the transferred data.
No, I don't have a real point. I'm simply reflecting on the changes. They've hired a bunch of recent college grads at my office. Most of these kids are 22 to 24, meaning they were born during Reagan's first administration. They've never seen a 15-cent first class stamp (that's 1979) nor double-digit inflation (1970 through 1982). They've never dialed a phone number nor can they understand why we had to lease phones from "the phone company". They have no idea what Betamax was. They think I'm making stuff up when I explain about tapered leg jeans. Then again, they never had to suffer antenna television nor the Cold War.
Does it ever bug you out that we worried about being ten seconds from nuclear annihilation from a country that isn't even explicable let alone extant? When I was seven (1982), I worried about nukes all the time. Now the Air Force base that had the job of watching out for these nukes is so long gone that it's only remembered for the flop of a Woodstock revival held on it in '99.
Okay, I guess I'm a codger. I caught myself enjoying Good & Plenty today. Next I'll be sitting in front of the bowling alley telling kids "when I was your age, you only had top-loading VCRs to tape your TV shows and they cost $400. Then again, gas cost 85 cents a gallon but the speed limit was 55. Oh, and we were supposed to go metric but then..."
Actually, VCRs were $400 in 1983 but gas wasn't down to 85 cents again until 1986 and VCRs were down to $250 by then. Oh just break out the billy club or I won't stop talking...
-get off my lawn you brats!
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Date: 2006-08-30 05:49 am (UTC)*cries*
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Date: 2006-08-30 11:32 am (UTC)BTW, according to the Spiral posters, DFA1979 broke up a little while ago, and the bassist will now be playing w/Queens of the Stone Age on their next tour/album/whatever. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...but hey, I could introduce you to a whole bunch of nifty local music... :-)
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Date: 2006-08-31 03:18 am (UTC)By the way, the croc (http://somethingpositive.net/sp11222002.shtml) was introduced when Pepito was trying to escape his sexually abusive owner for the wilds of Canuckistan.