2008-01-29 Welcome, Emily
There's a new drummer on the planet! As of today (or yesterday? time differences still confuse me), Dennis and Leila are parents. They didn't want to know if it's was a boy or a girl before the birth. "It's going to be a drummer", they said.
Now we know. It's a female drummer and will be known by the name Emily. Woot!
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My parents sold my car. Finally! Dad spent the whole weekend cleaning it in places I never knew it had with cleansing agents I didn't know existed for a buyer we didn't know would exist. But it all worked out.
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It's amazing what one can do with an old vinyl record and an oven. This and this, for example. I wish I had brought some from Germany. I wonder if the same can be done with CDs. But I didn't bring any of these, either.
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It would be a shame to bring my running shoes all the way to New Zealand, only to put them in the closet. So I started running again. 4.2 km for a start. Don't laugh, that's one tenth of a marathon!
4 comments:
Yes, vinyl is cool. And the sleeves are pretty useful as well. I found this site yesterday: http://www.sleeveface.com/
Something to do with the sleeves while you turn the records into art...
For old magnetic tapes, baking them is sometimes part of a last-ditch effort to read and restore them.
Tape of a certain vintage decomposes in a way that the magnetic layer turns aqua-philic, binding air moisture and turning it all into sticky goo. You can't play that, of course -- the sound would stick to the tape heads. But putting the tape into the oven gets the water out of the mixture and makes the tape readable for one last time.
uva:
Great! Now you don't have to throw away anything when you build a melting clock. Way cool!
ray:
And that's what you can do with the tape, once you copied the music to a modern format. And that, of course.
And when will *you* start knitting? :D
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