Back to Blogging?

I've been getting the urge to blog more and it seems that jimyounkin.com is probably the best place to do it.

In the past this blog has really been a place for me to dump posts and videos that I come up with from time to time.

I don't think that that will change much but I know that unless I start getting back in the habit of blogging the inertia will keep me from getting into the swing of things.

So what to write about? Well, that is a very good question. I recently completed a first draft of a book about technology in the first 30 years of my life.

I've also recently been older computers on eBay mostly Macintosh computers. I think that I've been doing it in service of nostalgia.

Nostalgia is a strong motivator. Many of the computers I've been buying have been ones I've had in the past.

I think I might want to write about those computers and my nostalgic experiences with them.

The Columbia House Music Club Was A Trap

The following is a small unedited excerpt from an unpublished memoir that I am currently writing. All text ©2016 Jim Younkin. Keep an eye out for the book sometime in the future.



A particular event that had a large influence on my cultural growth happened at this time: The Columbia House Music Club.



If you've never been in the Columbia House Music Club let me tell you a bit about it.

Cassette Tapes Were Serious Business

Image: stuart.childs

The following is a small excerpt from an unpublished memoir that I am currently writing. All text ©2016 Jim Younkin. Keep an eye out for the book sometime in the future.



Do you know what a pencil and a cassette tape have in common? Do you know what a cassette tape even is? Your answers the preceding questions will largely depend on when you were born.



I was born in 1977. The following is a reminder of the struggle all of us who grew up in the 80s had to go through to have our music.



I remember first starting my relationship with music when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I had a small radio cassette tape player and I remember listening to the radio at night and recording songs off the radio onto cassette tapes.