Vinyl-record factories race to keep up with demand surge

[Islandman]

LOL.

[Mosiah]

I believe one can. AutoCAD and tools like that just improve the efficiency with which one can get things done. They do not change the underlying principle of the process however.

You know, I like to use new technology as much as possible. I do not have any desire to go back to the old ways of doing things. So for all those who want 8-track and cassette tapes and vinyl, I say go ahead. I just won't be caught in those realms anytime soon. Just like cars and old cars. I see a lot of people raving over older cars from the 60s and 70s etc. I have no such love for those. For me, the newer, the better especially if they come with all the latest technology and added safety features.

Yes Mo, call me shallow...

I love technology too and have no desire to go back to the abacus or slide rule! But I still think that setting that 30-60 triangle against a t-square and all the rest of it teaches one about angles like no computer can.

[Tilla]

Yes, I have to admit, using T-Square, slide rules and the like really lay down a foundation that is indispensable for us who used that method in the past. I am not sure if I would say the younger folks of today are at a disadvantage though not having that type of experience.

[Mosiah]

And maybe you really can learn about all those things on a digital camera, but I grew up on a Minolta SLR camera, SRT-101, to be exact, and had to do everything manually. Now that I have a DSLR camera, 9 times out of 10 I leave everything on auto. I may as well use they camera on my phone!

With those old film cameras, one really had to give some serious thought as to what kind of film, ISO, you were going to need on certain occasions - 100, 200, 400? These days, I allow the camera to do all that for me.

Hey, someone who used to have to use the cotton loom to make the cloth for their trousers would think we have lost something in being able to just walk into a JC Penney and pick out something.

[Mosiah]

Yes, I have to admit, using T-Square, slide rules and the like really lay down a foundation that is indispensable for us who used that method in the past. I am not sure if I would say the younger folks of today are at a disadvantage though not having that type of experience.

Exactly! We feel they might be, but are they really?!?

[Islandman]

I confess I do miss having my pants and suits built by my local tailor.

Gone is that thrill of buying your yard and third pants lengths, taking it to the tailor and coming back in a few weeks only for him to tell you him never really get fe build it yet, but trust me it a go ready before the big event!

[Mosiah]

I confess I do miss having my pants and suits built by my local tailor.

Gone is that thrill of buying your yard and third pants lengths, taking it to the tailor and coming back in a few weeks only for him to tell you him never really get fe build it yet, but trust me it a go ready before the big event!

HAHAHA! No man, fi mi tailor never ramp fi gi mi mi tings pon time. Cah even if him nuh start it yet, yuh know dem can do it in couple hours if dem want?

Hey, nothing you buy in a mall store can compare to a well-tailored pants. As dem used to say, di pants dem used to siddung pon yuh!

[Islandman]

True ting. Dem call dem "bespoke" or some fancy name like dat inna America , and the price well fancy too!

[Mosiah]

Re vinyl, there is definitely something about wiping off that record, putting it on the turntable and carefully setting the needle that I miss seeing and doing when playing music. It somehow feels like it added more drama to the occasion!

I never did like the CD era of music much though, mostly because we were forced to buy a whole album of trash to get one decent song!

This digital era of music of course has its own challenges , most significant of which are probably the ease of piracy and the reality that the low cost of production results in waaay more garbage being produced than would otherwise be the case. I am still of the view though that taken as a whole, modern technology makes art better when used effectively.

I heard a funny story once from an old school music lover who was mostly out of touch with developments in the music world. He said he went to some event and saw a young kid who said he would be playing music for the evening. He asked where his music was and he showed him his flash drive and small laptop. He thought it was a joke until he watched the kid selecting songs all night from every era, hit after hit after hit! he couldn't believe how things had changed.

I remember having to lift heavy crates of records and big ole dutty speaker boxes whenever we put on dance in college.

Yuh remember when the disc players came out? They either couldn't mix well, from song to song, or the DJs had not learned how to do it yet. So, we thought vinyl would be around for a while longer. Well, that was then. I guess you can do more now on your computer than you can do with any disc player or vinyl!

Love technology!!!

[Mosiah]

Good article comparing the old and the new.

Handwriting vs typing: is the pen still mightier than the keyboard?
Computers may dominate our lives, but mastery of penmanship brings us important cognitive benefits, research suggests
fountain pen handwriting
Some neuroscientists think that giving up handwriting will impact on how future generations learn to read. Photograph: Erhan Dayi/Alamy
Anne Chemin
Tuesday 16 December 2014 06.08 EST

In the past few days you may well have scribbled out a shopping list on the back of an envelope or stuck a Post-it on your desk. Perhaps you added a comment to your child’s report book or made a few quick notes during a meeting. But when did you last draft a long text by hand? How long ago did you write your last “proper” letter, using a pen and a sheet of writing paper? Are you among the increasing number of people, at work, who are switching completely from writing to typing?

No one can say precisely how much handwriting has declined, but in June a British survey of 2,000 people gave some idea of the extent of the damage. According to the study, commissioned by Docmail, a printing and mailing company, one in three respondents had not written anything by hand in the previous six months. On average they had not put pen to paper in the previous 41 days. People undoubtedly write more than they suppose, but one thing is certain: with information technology we can write so fast that handwritten copy is fast disappearing in the workplace.

In the United States they have already made allowance for this state of affairs. Given that email and texting have replaced snail mail, and that students take notes on their laptops, “cursive” writing – in which the pen is not raised between each character – has been dropped from the Common Core Curriculum Standards, shared by all states. Since 2013 American children have been required to learn how to use a keyboard and write in print. But they will no longer need to worry about the up and down strokes involved in “joined-up” writing, less still the ornamental loops on capitals.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...ping?CMP=fb_gu

[Jangle]

Orange Street and Princess Street fi go buy me 'Terleen n Wool or me yard n third pepperseed lengths. Gi yuh tailor fi "build" a wikkid pants wid two pleats in the front and the burglar bar pon the back pocket.

[Islandman]

LOL. Priceless memories.