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Victor 74205 – No Noise Reduction

Posted in: by Matt on June 22, 2009

Answer (Robyn) – No Cleanup – Evan Williams, 3.4 MB mp3 file.

Yes, this is the same tune I posted last week. I figured it’d be kind of interesting to post the uncorrected file, scratches and all, so that you’d have a baseline file to compare to the quality of the tunes I’ve been posting. I did take the step of converting it from 45 RPM to 78, but otherwise it’s untouched.

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Technobabble!

Posted in: by Matt on June 19, 2009

Comic is up! Sorry it’s late, we’re having thunderstorms here.

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An awesome comic

Posted in: by Matt on June 16, 2009

Gunnerkrigg Court.

Just go read all the archives, OK? It’s very much worth it.

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Victor 74205

Posted in: by Matt on June 15, 2009

Answer (Robyn) – Evan Williams, 5.5 MB mp3 file.

Just a single sided record today. This one is a remarkable tenor singing a melancholy and slightly operatic love tune from 1919. I wish the noise reduction was a bit less obvious on this one.

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My wife has a garden…

Posted in: by Matt on June 14, 2009

I think we need some of these tomatoes….

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Eco-Comics: I’m really geeking out about ‘em.

Posted in: by Matt on June 13, 2009

Ok, let me just reiterate how much I’m loving Eco-Comics. The authors have just spent a couple days analyzing the return on investment for Batman villains cooperating. Using a combination of the Prisoner’s Dilemma and Utility Analysis they’ve determined that the best course of action is for members of Batman’s “Rouge’s Gallery” to pretend to cooperate, and then betray each other.

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Heh. I said “Unit”…

Posted in: by Matt on June 12, 2009

I played a lot of freeciv doing research for this week’s comic….

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Victor 2656

Posted in: by Matt on June 08, 2009

Navajo – Harry MacDonough. 4.5 MB mp3 file.

Ok, a bit of history on this one: back before I was born, my dad did some tinkering and fixed up an old Victrola that had been in the family for years. This was the record that he tested it with. It’s a goofy little novelty tune from 1904. There’s a bit of static, and the digital noise reduction is a bit obvious, but the record is a hundred and five years old so you gotta give that some respect…

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Victor 19841

Posted in: by Matt on June 06, 2009

Normandy – Edwin J. McEnelly’s Orchestra, 6.2 MB mp3 file.

What a Blue Eyed Baby You Are – Edwin J. McEnelly’s Orchestra, 5.4 MB mp3 file.

Prior to a big battle that happened some 65 years ago today, Normandy was best known as a seaside resort in the north of France. This recording predates “Operation Neptune” by about 19 years, and it’s a little bit of extra irony that the “B” side of the record is about a girl with extremely blue eyes…

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Pale and purple

Posted in: by Matt on June 05, 2009

If I can find it, I’ll post the recipe for the stuff in this week’s comic.

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