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[KevinH]

Wordle:  5/6

[Jrand74]

Technology is a mystery DR JANE.

[Jrand74]

Watching some tennis from Indian Wells.

[John G.]

Had a good lesson today, but I feel really behind. These new dances aren’t coming easy.

[Jane]

Technology is a mystery DR JANE.

  Maybe DR George will see the photo and copy it for me.

[John G.]

Then I had Thai food with friends. The restaurant was new to all three of us, and it was excellent.

[Jane]

I think Keith is popping corn again.  I am going to try and save half of it for tomorrow as I am not hungry.

[John G.]

Now watching a sad heist comedy called Mad Money with Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes. The score partly by James Newton Howard thinks it’s a 70s flick.

[Jane]

'night

[George]

We had a stereo-tv-radio combo......which was a drag because you couldn't play records if everyone else wanted to watch tv.

I got my own phono - also for my tenth birthday - and started buying records - but mostly 45 rpm "hit" records that I heard on the radio.

I don't think I ever had 16 1/4 rpm record......does anyone know what that speed was used for?

When we lived in Germany when my dad was in the army, he had a record player that played 16 1/4 rpm records.  I never knew what it was for either, but I had fun playing 45s and LPs at that speed.

[George]

Oh, tonight's rehearsal was canceled because the director has a migraine.

[George]

We had a stereo-tv-radio combo......which was a drag because you couldn't play records if everyone else wanted to watch tv.

I got my own phono - also for my tenth birthday - and started buying records - but mostly 45 rpm "hit" records that I heard on the radio.

I don't think I ever had 16 1/4 rpm record......does anyone know what that speed was used for?

I had heard those 16 2/3 were for radio transcription discs. This article seems to confirm that:

https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2011/05/slower-than-slow-16-rpm-records.html

Thanks for the info, MichaelG.

[ChasSmith]

The 16 2/3 rpm speed was very low fidelity, only good for speech, not music.

When my parents bought that first 4-speed record player, a promo item that came with it was "The Talking Bible". It was a box set of 45-size records that presumably had someone reading the entire Bible. I don't think they ever listened to it.

Later, a few audiobook-type things were issued at 16 2/3 on 12" records. I might even have one here, of someone reading Proust - "Swann in Love", most likely.

[George]

DR JANE it looked sort of like this.....

Using "quote" I can see , but not the photo. 

Googling the link shown it only says "Direct image access denied, please go to worthpoint.com to view images."

Well, Jane, if you still can't see it after your post, I downloaded it, so it definitely should be viewable by all here:

[George]

When I was a kid, I can remember visiting my aunt and uncle in California and they had a car with a 4-track tape player.  Its shape was just like an 8-track tape, but it played at a slower speed. 

[George]

Had fun with that one, too.

[John G.]

Oh, tonight's rehearsal was canceled because the director has a migraine.

Nasty. Vibes it’s over soon.

[John G.]

That movie was dreadful.

[John G.]

On to a documentary called Godard Cinema.

[Freddie]

We had a stereo-tv-radio combo......which was a drag because you couldn't play records if everyone else wanted to watch tv.

I got my own phono - also for my tenth birthday - and started buying records - but mostly 45 rpm "hit" records that I heard on the radio.

I don't think I ever had 16 1/4 rpm record......does anyone know what that speed was used for?

When we lived in Germany when my dad was in the army, he had a record player that played 16 1/4 rpm records.  I never knew what it was for either, but I had fun playing 45s and LPs at that speed.

[vixmom]

We went out stove shopping tonight

[vixmom]

We didn’t get one

[vixmom]

Why would you want to hook your stove up to Wi-Fi?

[vixmom]

We absolutely do not want that

[vixmom]

We refused the sleep number bed Wi-Fi too

[George]

Oh, tonight's rehearsal was canceled because the director has a migraine.

Nasty. Vibes it’s over soon.

Thanks, John (for Erin).

[George]

Why would you want to hook your stove up to Wi-Fi?

WTH??

[John G.]

An hour of Godard is enough for tonight. The man was an a—hole. Talented but a real a—hole.

[John G.]

Why would you want to hook your stove up to Wi-Fi?

So it can google a recipe or two?

[John G.]

What do you call bread with feet?