Don't understand why all the LED flashlights today, just use AAs and AAAs. A C or D cell version would run for ever, and it is still plenty hand-sized.

Oh Yes! . asmr reminds me of a quote from someone
great in music -- I believe that it was either Satchmo --
Louis Armstrong -- or Berry Gordy of Motown records,
when asked how they knew that a song was good.
the response:::
"When it makes the hair on my arms bristle."

when it happens to me -- mental bristling like that --
I try to capture the moment in some way, to be able
to add the music to my collection. . an example:::
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=ka...

and another:::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuI23wEa...

I have hundreds in the collection. . Sneaky Pete
Kleinow, Vladimir Horowitz, Mark Knopfler, Olivia
Newton John, Ayn Rand's favorite piano concerto
by Saint-Saëns ....... a fine rendition::: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt...
it could almost be a young Richard Halley!
this makes for an eclectic selection.

I didn't know that it had a name. . WoW. . Thank
you very much, Marsha !!! -- john
.

we have one here -- german monster -- really stable!

I invented a different way to do waterjet cutting, and
the company did not choose to patent it. . was working
at the manhattan project plant then, y12.

but the most fun thing is the teflon spindle which
can be used to carefully center an LP for transcription.
like the careful work done on this youtube LP
transcription::: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYXAVp0N...

we used the cassette tape transcription of the LP
of this song as a set-up song for the outdoor sound
system (1kW) and people asked why it sounded
so good. . transcribed LP with an effective sampling
rate well beyond the 44kHz of a CD, we answered. -- j
.

sweet wife and I never had kids, so I need a confuser .......
and this one has lotsa miles on it! . still runs well.

I am still friends with my "high school sweetheart"
and still feel a tinge of the jitters when I call her.
like on her birthday. . april 19. . especially when
her husband answers the phone! -- j
.

mine wasn't actually leather -- it was some kind of
early vinyl-over-fiberboard stuff. . when new, it looked
like leather. . cost like leather, too! -- j

p.s. it contained six d-cells and would run all night
on the beach at decent volume!
.

Just the remote control for a TV has has millions. Amazing delta!

Wasn't it great?? Yet the kids today hardly have any of that, and they're really missing out on the interaction with nature. In the Montessori world, we're concerned about that, because all that stuff is so restricted. We call it "nature deprivation." Being out in nature is not only intellectually enriching, but very calming.

I have a friend who has trouble falling asleep and he sometimes listens to videos made to trigger ASMR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_...

When I went to listen to those videos, the sounds in them reminded me of why I like to garden - leaves rustling, birds calling, all kinds of soft, soothing sounds.

Didn't know that! Whoa.

""Free Range Kids."
The book has a funny story where she quotes something from Amazon about an adult-only video that makes it sound like a porno. It turns out the video is selections from Sesame Street from the 70s. Apparently the most offensive scene is when a kid is out playing in his neighborhood and meets an empty-nester couple who he hangs out with for a while. This is considered scandalous today.

Maybe more transistors meant more sensitivity, selectivity, dynamic range, better shape factor of the filter so that it's flat but rolls off quickly at the boundary of the adjacent channel. Maybe it was marketing too. I better this HD radio next to me has millions of transistors. :)

I held a patent on a new style of tripod. No one would manufacture it. Once the patent expired, several Japanese firms produced it. Now, with digital photography, no one needs full sized tripods anymore.

Getting up the nerve to call her (pre-rejection jitters). Ah, sweet innocence. Seems like there's no such thing today. It's as if they know everything from the time they were toddlers. Like a friend of mine once said, "I don't need a computer, I've got a teenager."

Can you imagine how much the leather case would add to the cost today?

now, invention can occur in parallel, sir -- I invented
the tuned exhaust for a 4-stroke engine as a kid
with a go-cart, and then nascar started to use it,
and I never told them about it!!! -- j
.

I have a harley bike photo book which weighs
so much that it could be made of solid kaolin clay!!! -- j
.

yes, we were invincible back then -- not scared
of anything except being rejected by That Girl ... ! -- j
.

back then, the classier the radio, the more the number
of transistors. . my favorite, a silvertone 7 transistor
which looked kinda like this 6 transistor version:::
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sears_roeb_...

I suppose that they used the transistors for more
than just final amp -- IF amp, maybe? -- j
.

What is the deal with the number of transistors? Better gain with better fidelity, (e.g. a better amplifier)? There really aren't other functions in an AM radio, right? FM has a modulator, AM jut has carrier.

it was a 2-transistor radio at first, then a 6-transistor
which just fit. . I was a hit during the world series! -- j
.

I thought I invented that phrase until I saw several other Gulchers used it also. What are the odds?

I love the expression "free range child!" That was me, walking to kindergarten at age 5; riding the city bus to the movies and shopping center at age 9; leaving the house at 7:00 a.m. and not returning home until I was hungry at age 3 or 4. I actually don't remember a time when my mother came looking for me; we had the whole neighborhood as our domain, including the woods behind the house that was full of such dangerous things like trees and rocks. We built forts, explored, made up games, made tents out of bed sheets, and many other fun activities that kept us out of our mothers' hair!

I always walked home from grade(elementary) school. I seem to remember it being more than a mile.
Kudos to this kid for his spirit of self-reliance. He is gonna be a handfull for his parents. :)

Oh, yes. And they have to be replaced every other year with the newer version. It's a racket.

Oh, I wasn't trying to convince you to move to the city, but only show that city life isn't necessarily dangerous for kids and even has benefits.

Chicago and Illinois are a mess, doubtless - and much of that is due to the fact that we're such a great place to live, the pols get away with a lot. BTW, Chicago, as a place to live, is very different from LA and Phoenix, much more tight-neighborhood and friendly. Also, the crime is very, very neighborhood dependent. Huge majority of murders drug-gang related, so I can't wait for the legalization of marijuana, as I see that as the first domino to fall in getting rid of the drug war and therefore drug gangs!

Sorry I don't feel your appreciation for city life. I can get news casts on net of various cities. Murders, rapes, car jacking, etc on a daily basis. Before shrugging I lived in LA and Phoenix not a life I would want to return to ever. I now live next to a state that borders Illinois where your state doesn't recognize my right to carry concealed weapons and the bad guys do illegally. I glad you feel the way you do and best of luck but I think I'll stay right where I'm at.