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Sep. 5th, 2020 04:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsyCurrently, I am in the process of putting DCC decoders in as many of my locomotives as will take them. Some of them are easier than others, and I'm finding that putting a simple decoder in is easier than trying to add sound. I'll probably end up leaving most of the older non-DCC-ready ones as DC-only. While it would be a neat trick to put one into an old Tyco, the design of the motor makes that incredibly difficult.
The Rabbit House papercraft kit arrived. I have what I think is the right glue for it. As expected, the instructions are all in Japanese. Fortunately, the Translate app on my phone can use the camera and read Japanese text, then put the translation as an overlay, and then save that as an image. Unfortunately, Translate has its own issues. If I don't line the camera up just right, the results often make no sense. But, I'm clever, and I can figure out the hiragana/katakana and a handful of kanji.
In a trip to WonderBook lately, a store that epitomizes the word "vellichor", I found a couple books and a trio of CDs. One book was a compilation of photos (in color!) that someone took back in around 1970 of places he saw on various roadtrips, and the other is a book from 1950 about steam locomotives. (Every book collection needs old books.) For the CDs, one was from Japan, still in its original plastic wrap. Someone paid good money for that CD, and it was never opened. For $4, I had to go for it.
For an idea of what I found, the first track is "Ginza Love Story".
Y'know what, I ain't mad. I'm cool with this. This is music that I would have been completely unable to listen to half a lifetime ago. It's the kind of stuff that just didn't jive with me back then, y'know? But the thing about music is, it's an expression of memories and emotions. A couple decades will give anyone memories and emotions they previously couldn't imagine having when they were young. Music that would have been previously dismissed as slow and boring eventually becomes a lot more relatable.
Someday we'll have anime conventions again, and the parties that go with them. When that happens, I'm going to try to slide that into the playlist. Knowing who I hang out with, it'll go over well. With most of them. Probably.
Don't get me wrong, I still jam to the music I listened to when I was younger. I still have those memories and emotions. Those are still relevant. I can still feel most of them.
And then there's the songs that came out very recently and are instant hits for me:
The Rabbit House papercraft kit arrived. I have what I think is the right glue for it. As expected, the instructions are all in Japanese. Fortunately, the Translate app on my phone can use the camera and read Japanese text, then put the translation as an overlay, and then save that as an image. Unfortunately, Translate has its own issues. If I don't line the camera up just right, the results often make no sense. But, I'm clever, and I can figure out the hiragana/katakana and a handful of kanji.
In a trip to WonderBook lately, a store that epitomizes the word "vellichor", I found a couple books and a trio of CDs. One book was a compilation of photos (in color!) that someone took back in around 1970 of places he saw on various roadtrips, and the other is a book from 1950 about steam locomotives. (Every book collection needs old books.) For the CDs, one was from Japan, still in its original plastic wrap. Someone paid good money for that CD, and it was never opened. For $4, I had to go for it.
For an idea of what I found, the first track is "Ginza Love Story".
Y'know what, I ain't mad. I'm cool with this. This is music that I would have been completely unable to listen to half a lifetime ago. It's the kind of stuff that just didn't jive with me back then, y'know? But the thing about music is, it's an expression of memories and emotions. A couple decades will give anyone memories and emotions they previously couldn't imagine having when they were young. Music that would have been previously dismissed as slow and boring eventually becomes a lot more relatable.
Someday we'll have anime conventions again, and the parties that go with them. When that happens, I'm going to try to slide that into the playlist. Knowing who I hang out with, it'll go over well. With most of them. Probably.
Don't get me wrong, I still jam to the music I listened to when I was younger. I still have those memories and emotions. Those are still relevant. I can still feel most of them.
And then there's the songs that came out very recently and are instant hits for me:
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Date: 2020-09-05 11:37 am (UTC)So what does a DCC decoder do, just make the horn sound??
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Date: 2020-09-06 05:27 am (UTC)With regular DC, their actions are decided by the voltage and polarity of the power going to the track. So they ALL go at the same speed and in the same direction.
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Date: 2020-09-06 01:28 pm (UTC)Oh, that's handy if you have multiple engines!!