It creeps me out when terms become obsolete during my lifetime. With the move from hard drives to flash memory in mp3 players, the term “spinning” with regards to music is on the verge of becoming purely analogical, and when this happens, the term “disc jockey” will also join its ranks. My guess is that both terms will remain, but that I’ll have to explain their original derivation to my grandchildren. Or, more likely, I won’t have to, but I will anyway. I base this on the fact that I still preach the superiority of the Atari 800 computer over the Apple II to anyone who’ll listen.
I’m really friggin’ tired right now, but there’s one more piece of business to be addressed before I shut up and go to sleep: The winner of the PartiallyClips Church Bake Sale Ad Contest is, hands down, Ruthie! Her winning submission was this glorious ad.
Congratulations, Ruthie! Please drop an e-mail to partiallyclips@flamingmayo.com with your name and address so we can get your prize package in the mail!
For those of you who never checked out the contest, all of the submissions can still be seen here, and there are a lot of seriously LOL-worthy gems in there. This contest was a blast, and I’ll definitely be doing similar things in the future.
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The Atari 800XL, heh.
If we can go to the moon on 32kb of RAM, then 64kb is more than enough for us.
I actually first learned the concept of Structured Programming with ATARI Basic.
Atari BASIC was my first programming language, not counting a brief false start on the Imsai. I think I was 7 or 8, and my parents (in a rather brilliant move of parenting that I intend to copy) restricted me to 30 minutes a day of video games, but I could spend as long as I wanted to on the computer if I was writing programs. So eventually I started writing video games, thus blurring the line.
At some point I taught myself Atari Pilot as well, a language nobody remembers, and the only one I’ve ever seen whose graphics modes have (0,0) at the center of the screen.
Neither language is on my current resume.
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Ever wonder where the term “Record Album” comes from? It comes from the fact that when 78 rpm records were in their prime, one song or part of a song took a whole side of a record, so to get a bunch of songs or a long symphony out, they put the records in a book of sleeves called an album. When 33.3 rpm came out, you could fit roughly 10 times the music on a record, so a whole album of songs could be saved on one Long Play (LP) record.
Well…what the hell. People still “dial” phones.
And use blueprints, and put “carbon copy” on email…
He’s going to be manually electromagnetically switching 0s to 1s and back, on either hard drives or solid state media, BOYEEEE!
Many Party DJ’s still use vinyl records. That’s one reason that 33 1/3 LP’s are still made and sold.
The Commodore 64 is the best!
After 40 years, his booty probably isn’t all that fresh anymore…
My son came upstairs the other day after poking around in the workshop downstairs… “Dad, what music is on these big black cd’s?” whilst holding a pile of my LP’s
Aww, he skipped 8-tracks and cassettes? I loved 8-tracks, and tolerated cassettes!