Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there! I'm thankful for everyone that has supported this blog and making sure that #ScienceLooksGood! Thank you so much and be on the lookout for more things to come!
More Tapes, More Problems: The YTSW3 Aftermath
Thanks to everyone for the feedback on my latest Yeah They Still Work (YTSW) video on cassette tapes. Many people asked to see my collection, so here are some pics!
The motherload. Not as organized as usual, but the tapes go two levels deep.
i always labeled my mixtapes with a number. I added the date for later ones. Here's close to the end of my mixtape era in 1999.
I also labeled the backs with Title and Artist. if I didn't know, I just guessed
I also had plenty of store bought tapes ... Don't Be Cruuuueeelll
I always loved the font choices for album covers. This one is particularly fancy, especially given Bobby Brown's content
I'm a huge fan of liner notes, and I miss them from most digital downloads.
And of course, you get amazing album art!
Yeah They Still Work 3: Cassette Tapes
This is the latest post in my Yeah They Still Work (YTSW) series, where I review my old tech that still works and brings me joy.
Do you still have your cassette tapes? I grew up in a family of DJs so I was surrounded by vinyl records and cassette tapes. In fact, I didn't switch over to CDs until the late 90s. I still have a subset of my favorite tapes even though the majority of my music is now digital.
Check out YTSW 1 on the minidisc (post and video) and YTSW 2 on the Double Dribble Tiger handheld (post and video)
If you can't see the video below, click here.
Circuits Are For The Children
I went to college for electrical engineering, which means that I made a lot of things blow up and risked electrocuting myself on my daily basis. Unfortunately even though I grew up as a geek, college was the first time that i ever interacted with one of these devices.
Luckily, parents today have much greater choices to engage their children in the wonders of electronics. Littlebits is an awesome device playground for young children that I wish I had as a kid. As a matter of fact, I'll likely order one and review here because it looks very cool, and much more user friendly then what I had to use ten years ago.
If you can't see the video below, click here.
Happy Birthday Carl Sagan!
Carl Sagan is a major reason why this blog exists. I've been into science as a kid, but I always envisioned it as a niche, nerdy thing. Carl Sagan showed me that science can be mainstream and cool because it affects everything around is, every day! He directly inspires my #ScienceLooksGood hashtag.
Check out this amazing video from Sagan's audiobook for Pale Blue Dot. Sagan describes how humbling it is that the earth is nothing more than a pale blue dot in the vast openness of a much larger universe that we have yet to understand. If you can't see the video embed below, click here.
Happy birthday, Carl.
