“I am enough.” - some mug

So what do you do when you need something, but don’t want to support the consumerist lifestyle? You put your hands together and you make your own stuff!

The flexi disc (also known as a phonosheet, Sonosheet or Soundsheet) is a phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet with a molded-in spiral stylus groove, and is designed to be playable on a normal phonograph turntable.

Flexible records were commercially introduced as the Eva-tone Soundsheet in 1962. They were very popular among children and teenagers and mass-produced by the state publisher in the Soviet government.

Because I managed to get a third batch of these photodiscs, I decided not to create an in-depth post about them, but to update the existing article. Here I will only feature the new photos and the new additions to the collection and the recording of these new discs posted separately, but you can find the entire collection in the main article.

To read only the new part of the article, go directly here

The Toshiba Libretto 100CT is a marvel of engineering. Launched in April 1996, it manages to fit a powerful Pentium processor and 32MB RAM (up to 64MB) in a laptop less than one kilogram, squeezing a full Windows 95 PC into a device the size of a paperback book.

More photos in this wonderful article by TurboMag, the source for most of the photos. The article itself is brilliant, but is in Romanian.

Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.28 (same as a modern Porsche Carrera) or even 0.22 (still rare among modern production cars), depending on the source]. This drag coefficient was far better that the 0.8–1.0 common with automobiles used at that time. This allowed for the fuel consumption to decrease[citation needed]. It was the first car to have the wheels inside its aerodynamic line, which we take for granted today. This was Persu’s main innovation compared to the 1921 Rumpler Tropfenwagen (“drop car”) of Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler. Persu’s design received German patent number 402683 in 1924 and US patent 1648505 in 1927.

I was able to find in the family, among other many nice records of Hungarian Folklore Music a Colorvox flexi disc. It seems that Hungarians did way more pressings that the Romanian counterparts (shown here and here). A pretty big collection of them can be found on discogs, as Publishing House of the Art Foundation (Képzőművészeti Alap Kiadóvállalat) also released, under the Cityvox label, a series of circular flexi-discs, with a normal cover.

Weather was nice, pretty warm and sunny, considering we’re still in the middle of winter. Nice day out, walked a bit, had some nice talks with friends. I’ve got to say today was a good day.

“Revelio!“ — You, all the time

Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live. — Jim Rohn

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. — Bob

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. — Bob