i have a thing about reel to reel tape recorders--i have two in my recording studio TEAC 8 track, reel to reels along with 4 various maker--cassette multi-track tape decks but the one reel to reel i have always lusted after which has eluded me is-- a NAGRA reel to reel..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagra
You may be familar with nagra's and not even know it. The company produced absolutely the best reel to reel tape recorder for tv-radio field recording. Any newscast done from VietNam was done on a Nagra---in fact this portable was so good, entire movie sound-tracks were made on it--so you have for sure without actually knowing it heard this piece of equipment--- Nagra also manufactured the smallest, highest quality, palm sized, reel to reel machine--- which has served as a (for then) high tech prop in countless 1970's spy vs. spy movies and spy tv shows like mission impossible. These are/were expensive and i promise you on mission impossible they really never self destructed a nagra! These are pain in the butt recorders, they take a special width tape and you have to adapt microphones and battery packs, but they are so functionally beautiful, and are clockwork built and some things in life are just plain cool...plus they make beautiful recordings. reel to reel nagra's are a a beautiful item that are going to disappear from the world never to be made again--


i just ordered "lifehacker" a book by Gina trapina(?) based on the website of the same name---http://lifehacker.com/ the basic premise is a series of 88 techniques to make your utilization of your personal computer and life functional, fulfilling and unified....i normally stay away from any type of self help book, but the title concept of hacking both your computer and your own individual process's at the same moment was appealing, since to me they are conjoined as a technohuman-----I'll advise how it reads......and if it's worth the trouble...





i am trying something different, text in white--i had some input that the gray text was difficult to read...so a short blog to test the text color and new graphics....