There’s Gizmodo, and there’s Engaget. They’re easy to confuse. Can both survive? Dunno, but my friend Tom has pointed out an item on Engaget about Ultra HDTV. I knew there was a good reason to not jump straight into 1080. Go to the link and see how pitiful the resolution of my 720p projector looks, compared to 33 megapixel video.
At the other end of the hi-tech spectrum is the lowly, long-lived vacuum tube. They’re still made, of course, for guitar amps and very expensive, esoteric hi-fi pre-amps and power amps. Here’s an amazing video of a triode tube being made the old-fashioned way, by hand. I’m embarrassed to admit that at the moment I can’t name the tune of the piano music, despite the fact it’s played multiple times in a chopped up repeating loop. Sounds like Gershwin.
Ah, of course. “The Man I Love,” by the Gershwin brothers, from “Lady Be Good.”
At least the beginning part of it sounds like,
“Some day he’ll come along,
The man I love,
And he’ll be big and strong,
The man I love,
And when he comes my way
I’ll do my best to make him stay! “
Could be Gershwin, or Porter, but I KNOW the lyrics are “The Man I Love …”