Category Archives: General

Guest DJ Set On WVUD 91.3FM

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I’ve been invited to have a guest DJ set for All Tomorrow’s Parties on WVUD 91.3FM in Newark, DE. It’s simultaneously exciting and terrifying. The theme is synthpop, new wave and the Fairlight CMI. I’ve attempted to put together some cuts that I enjoy myself while trying to weave some threads through the artists. I’ll […]

Testing a Geiger Counter Kit

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I recently purchased a Geiger counter kit from Goldmine Electronics. I soldered everything together; attaching the Geiger tube was the trickiest as it’s not actually soldered to the board, just ” strapped” with some wire in three places. One end of the tube is the positive (+) side and the entire center of the tube […]

VHS Erasing Project

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I’ve been cleaning house lately. One thing on the chopping block was my massive collection of VHS tapes that I’ve accumulated over the years. Since they’ve been stashed in the basement and I haven’t needed anything from the collection in several years, I decided it was time to part with it. But, as with any […]

We’re a WordPress whore now!

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Yep, it’s official.  We’ve moved to the WordPress blogging platform, a new server and a new hostname.  Life on the Video Ranch is dead.  Long live LOTVR. It took a little bit of twiddling to get the old blog posts over to the new server and ingested (or indigestion) properly but it’s worth it.  The […]

Passive iPod Speaker

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File under “the lights went out,” this Phonofone II will passively amplify your iPod earbuds into sound that is audible in a room. It claims to do so at 55db which is pretty good but won't rock the house. $500 even and it too can be yours when the economy collapses and the coal runs […]