Although I am on target in dealing with my pressure at work, I did want to post a short and silly/funny blog. I can’t help admiring how adolescents today have such a wide variety of electronic gadgets at their disposal–especially cameras and video cameras. I had a primitive reel-to-reel tape recorder when I was about 10 years old, and one of those automatic point-and-shoot instant polaroid cameras. Nothing like these capabilities!
Make sure you see the end, before the bloopers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMQdhqd_r3g&feature=plcp&context=C39f588eUDOEgsToPDskKLgtsHnISFseVsVI85bGDj
Oh–and thanks to Athene for nominating me as a “versatile blogger.” I don’t think I deserve it, but I couldn’t thank her on her own blog because for some reason it doesn’t allow comments (Richard?)…
About Steve Caplan
I am a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska where I mentor a group of students, postdoctoral fellows and researchers working on endocytic protein trafficking. My first lablit novel, "Matter Over Mind," is about a biomedical researcher seeking tenure and struggling to overcome the consequences of growing up with a parent suffering from bipolar disorder. Lablit novel #2, "Welcome Home, Sir," published by Anaphora Literary Press, deals with a hypochondriac principal investigator whose service in the army and post-traumatic stress disorder actually prepare him well for academic, but not personal success. Novel #3, "A Degree of Betrayal," is an academic murder mystery. "Saving One" is my most recent novel set at the National Institutes of Health. Now IN PRESS: Today's Curiosity is Tomorrow's Cure: The Case for Basic Biomedical Research (CRC PRESS, 2021).
https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B006CSULBW?
All views expressed are my own, of course--after all, I hate advertising.
Thanks for the laugh, Steve. Are any of these thespians related to you, by any chance? Don’t answer that if you don’t want to.
I never owned a Polaroid as far as I can remember. I did have a 126-format box camera though, which arguably takes much, much worse photos.
And in supreme geekiness, I once borrowed my high school’s reel-to-reel for the summer, using it to create interesting feedback noises. Some of which were used in electronic musical compositions, much later on.
Indeed, I can claim the camera-man (boy) who made a short appearance, and the narrator. The other is a friend, and they form a small group that goes by the name “Barnyard Productions” or some such.
By age 12 or 13, I think 8-tracks were still “the thing” and cassettes were only coming into their own!