Welcome to my Other (strange) Interests!

Music

Vinyl/Shellac Records

I think these're neat as Hell. The first records were cylinders with grooves carved into them. The grooves have stayed all this time, but the cylinders have gone due to poor space management. Now, we have discs, which were concerning for sound (Which is why Edison stuck with the cylinder for so long), and these discs are much better for space. Edison tried to use discs, but he stuck with the vertical grooves he had already been using instead of the horizontal ones the other guy (his name escapes me right now) was using. Eventually, people got tired of one speaker and wanted two of them, so some real smart people combined the vertical and horizontal grooves and that's how we got stereo sound. (that's not a perfect explanation of how it works; Technology Connections on YouTube has a great video on the topic)

Cassettes

I have less to say about these, because I hardly think about them. Cassettes come in several varieties: the shit ones (most common and cheapest), the pretty alright ones (mid-range all around), and the good ones (great sound, but expensive). I forget the names of these different types, but oh well. The way cassettes worked was that the tape in the plastic shell would be magnetic in some way and the reading head would pull magnetic frequencys out of it and make digital sound and convert it to analog. Just for the record, do not trust a word I say on any of this. I know most of this because of the only live recording we have of the Jetzons :).

We do not care about any of that; what music do you listen to, for goodness sake!

OK, fine. I'm quite an emo bottle of glue, so therefore my music taste mostly aligns with that. I listen to MCR, Green Day, Paramore, Sleeping With Sirens, To Octavia, blink-182, The All American Rejects, Imagine Dragons (only stuff from their first two albums, though), Tencious D, and many more. A band I would like to mention, as they are quite good and aren't well known, is the Jetzons. Like most, I learned of them from the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 soundtrack.

Video Games

The Legend of Zelda

I have only played a few of the games and have beaten fewer. My favorite game in the series is Ocarina of Time, which has so few flaws that it can almost be considered perfect; the only thing dragging it down is motherfuckin' Bongo-Bongo.

Half-Life

The Half-Life series is one of the best video game series I have ever played; it is so utterly perfect in every way that I struggle to think of how Episode 3 (or Half-Life 3) could improve on anything from the first two games. My favorite game in the series is Half-Life 2, because of its absolute perfection of story and gameplay; it even still looks pretty good.

Making the Internet a better place

This is the place that inspired this section

I think that the internet has become a gross, icky mess that is capitalistic in nature and continues to become a place of shallow, half-baked opinions. It never ceases to amaze me how decentralized the internet was before I was even alive, the whole internet was a place of discovery and fun that a large amount of people were never able to experience, that I want to experience, and that many other people want to experience again. The site I linked above has more details and information on how you can help to make the Internet a better place, so please take at least a glance at it.