This past week has been one of reminiscing, talking about, and finding lost treasures from and about my late friend Jill Sobule. I turned off the monetization so that I could put this one together.
2025-05-12 19:04:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Easy Good - Bloat Bad!!
2025-05-12 14:45:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Whatever happens, it will happen soon. Stay tuned...
2025-05-12 01:38:03 +0000 UTC View Post
What is this thing?
2025-05-10 16:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to fill the case and get everything in place.
2025-05-08 10:14:54 +0000 UTC View Post
If you think I don't know what I'm talking about, you do know that I started and ran an all American manufacturing company right? Enjoy!
2025-05-05 15:32:48 +0000 UTC View Post
What is it that I do again? Maybe someone can remind me what my REAL job is... I really don;t remember. Enjoy!
2025-05-05 15:28:01 +0000 UTC View Post
All Jill Songs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS-nqU4ZztWRc3akeLUeERQ America Back - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX47ObjShLA Somewhere In New Mexico - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIlJ6P0-kP4 Soldiers of Christ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0c3HK0Z6Y Heroes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlsAdYjUzI4 Trains - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5muMsuIf7s Underdog Victorious - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSAWJIUMwAw Mexican Wrestler - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stqs_svY1Ok Rock Me To Sleep - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CChBqurz3n0 The Jill Sobule Super Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMYJuo6kGEQ
2025-05-05 04:23:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Part Two of my BINA VIEW Control project has me creating the front panel artwork using a technique I have never tried before. Let's see how it turns out! Enjoy....
2025-05-01 22:26:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Bots Bots Everywhere! Oh, those lovable little scamps... what clever things will they think of next? Enjoy!
2025-04-28 18:18:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Major Fran to Ground Control....
2025-04-26 19:35:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we go - another project! I am using a vintage NOS Archer case for the BINA VIEW Controller project, and so we go to the Phactory to get it ready. Enjoy!
2025-04-25 21:28:56 +0000 UTC View Post
For April 20, 2025... Enjoy!
2025-04-23 20:47:18 +0000 UTC View Post
There can be only One - power indicator in my BINA VIEW Controller!
2025-04-21 21:54:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Another Week in Crazytown.
2025-04-19 13:27:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the Texas Instruments model TI-71 digital alarm clock, and so far as I know it is the first example of a full sized display LED table clock that could be bought retail. The shape reminds me of a Star Trek prop. The World's First BIG LED Displays! (Dialco 7-Segment displays from 1975) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q43GbRAL9dU
2025-04-18 21:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This US Army film contained copyrighted music from start to finish - so much of it in fact that I held off posting it here for over a year - but recently YouTube introduced AI music deletion tools that I employed to remove the copyrighted audio from this film, with some interesting artifacts left behind. You can really hear the foley absent from the music, and even hear the voice-over actors breathing and other noises that were originally drowned out by the music. It stars Cliff Robertson, but you may recognize the voices of other uncredited actors in this film. Anyway - add your own music to taste, stir, and Enjoy!
2025-04-15 13:53:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
2025-04-14 14:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Get the lights.... Thread the projector.... Pop the popcorn.
2025-04-13 00:59:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
2025-04-11 12:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Just when you think you've seen them all here comes something unusual - definitely a piece of transitional technology somewhere between projection displays and flip clocks. It takes what was readily available at the time and puts that tech to use in a bedside clock radio. Enjoy!
2025-04-10 20:10:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-04-10 15:57:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, the pain - How many times have I worked on this amazing all-mechanical 7-segment Lumitime clock??? Too Many is the answer - but here I am once again to do a postmortem on one of my favorite clocks that has finally bitten the dust. Let's take a look...
2025-04-04 17:41:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Sent in by viewer Chris in the last Viewer Mail, this little Personal Assistant from 1988 is unusual and a bit puzzling - not really a professional device, but made to look like one. Let's take a closer look...
2025-04-02 16:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to viewer Jesse for sending in these two Electro-Dice games from 1965 - a forgotten piece of history rediscovered! Nostalgia Neon Blinky Tree - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Phk-Ow7gU
2025-04-01 16:16:20 +0000 UTC View Post
