{"id":2789,"date":"2010-01-16T12:48:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T03:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2011-07-28T05:45:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T20:45:05","slug":"the-youth-of-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/16\/the-youth-of-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Youth of Today…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It eventually happened.<\/p>\n

It took a while, but I think I finally know how it feels to be the ancient one<\/em>, sitting helplessly while the younger ones try to operate antiquated machinery from another era… say, a turntable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Picture if you will: a standard Berlin bar<\/a>, two cheerful yet terminally hopeless barmaids, a pair of standard-issue decks, a [presumably rather cheesy German] record to be played…<\/p>\n

It went a little bit like this:<\/p>\n

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  1. Barmaid places record on deck, tries to play it for 2 minutes before realising said deck has no needle (stylus or cartridge, for that matter).<\/li>\n
  2. Barmaid repeatedly tries to spot the beginning of some track she is presumably looking for, using a lighter for sole light source. Gets ever so slightly pissy when yours truly points [as gently as possible] toward the button to enable the dedicated target light that comes standard on all SL-1200.<\/li>\n
  3. Barmaid #2 [unsuccessfully] tries to fit a raw stylus<\/a> into the standard needle<\/a> connector, apparently oblivious to the obvious size\/shape difference.<\/li>\n
  4. Barmaids have stroke of genius and finally decide to switch the entire deck with the other<\/em> deck (changing cables and all), yet again failing to notice that simply switching the cartridge, would have been a considerably easier endeavour.<\/li>\n
  5. After finally plugging the new deck in, barmaids enter long struggle to figure the on\/off dial on the new deck. Get increasingly pissy at any attempt to point them in the right direction… Finally give up in frustration and put a CD instead.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Seriously: now I know exactly how old-timers feel, when they see condescending-yet-clueless youngsters trying to operate a 1930s radio… and miserably failing at it, as if it was some alien technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It eventually happened. It took a while, but I think I finally know how it feels to be the ancient one, sitting helplessly while the younger ones try to operate antiquated machinery from another era… say, a turntable. Picture if you will: a standard Berlin bar, two cheerful yet terminally hopeless barmaids, a pair of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parties","category-berlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}