Friday, October 23, 2009
Goethe
"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or dehumanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming."
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
First day in Berkeley
June 22
Today was my first day as an official Teach For America corps member.
I left Charisse in Las Vegas yesterday at about 6:30pm and began my drive across the desert, into southern California towards LA and cut north via Bakersfield. I was pulling a large 5x8 U-haul with just about everything Charisse and I own behind the new Jeep Liberty that replaced our 95 jeep Cherokee (that died). The Jeep made it fine, even with its poor mpg (It got an avg of about 13 mpg). At about 12:30 I was some 40 miles from Bakersfield and i was really tired, so I pulled off the road, pulled out my bedding, locked the jeep and trailer, and slept uneasily for about 3 hours on top of the U-haul under the stars. At 4 am I woke up and began driving, stopping intermittently to eat and rest, and I was finally in the Bay area at about 10 am (1/2 hour ahead of schedule) when I all of the sudden found myself one lane too far to the left. Instead of finishing of the easy 10 or so miles into Berkeley, I was crossing a huge bay bridge. Which would not have been so bad (I've been lost before) if it were not for the toll booth, which, again, would not have been so bad had I been required to pay the 4 dollars. But no, the stars would not have it that easy. I was towing a trailer so it had to be 6 dollars, two more than I had on me. So, they lady said she would take a photo of the license plate and bill me the fine/fare (which of course cannot have worked considering the lack of a license plate on the jeep, it being new and all). So maybe I got off lucky?
I finally found my way back across the bridge and gunning toward Emeryville where I had reserved a self-storage unit to keep all of our junk out of our way as we passed our little 5-week sojourn in LA. Unfortunately, there was only me to unload the back of the jeep and the entire trailer which, I am sure, amounted to about 40 tons of stuff and a freaking heavy record player (which I moved by my lonesome). After about 3 hours of that, I was completely unloaded and ready to take the U-Haul back to the place. But apparently UHaul and Berkeley had some sort of falling out that they don't allow them in the city anymore (or something like that). Either way, the result of which caused a surprising lack of a convenient place to ditch it. I called about 4 people trying to find someone on the internet to look up a drop-off and my brutha Eric told me to get the Verizon gps directional thing on my phone. So I did, it cost $3, but the direction was not found so I was still up the river.
At this point I thought I was late for the Teach for America Induction week sign-in, so I decided to forget about the stupid UHaul and go to sign in. Which I did. and they were nice to me and gave me a super nice computer bag with TEACH FOR AMERICA embroidered on it. there was internet in the lobby, so i got directions to a UHaul in Oakland, snuck out of the hotel, and returned the cursed trailer. It feels great to not have it on the back of the jeep anymore.
I got back to the hotel in time to sit down as the opening ceremony (of sorts) began so I had to sit through like 4 hours of speeches and talks (which were good) in my sweaty, gross, stinky pants and shirt. Then the meetings finally ended and I went to check into my room and my keys did not work and when i went to exchange them, the line was long as the freaking Bible and so I said screw it and went to eat dinner, still stinking.
I thought my mysterious, unknown and unnamed roomate had my key, but as it turns out, The receptionist at the hotel just screwed up the numbers. SO! now I am in my room, showered, and my roommate has yet to appear. Maybe I'll have my own room. That would be just delightful (seriously, not sarcastically) since I am beat and tired and anti-social. Dinner was good though.
As it stands at the moment, I am sluffing the video/photograph scavenger hunt social for some much needed relaxation. Socialism is for communists anyways.
And that is my first day of TFA.
Today was my first day as an official Teach For America corps member.
I left Charisse in Las Vegas yesterday at about 6:30pm and began my drive across the desert, into southern California towards LA and cut north via Bakersfield. I was pulling a large 5x8 U-haul with just about everything Charisse and I own behind the new Jeep Liberty that replaced our 95 jeep Cherokee (that died). The Jeep made it fine, even with its poor mpg (It got an avg of about 13 mpg). At about 12:30 I was some 40 miles from Bakersfield and i was really tired, so I pulled off the road, pulled out my bedding, locked the jeep and trailer, and slept uneasily for about 3 hours on top of the U-haul under the stars. At 4 am I woke up and began driving, stopping intermittently to eat and rest, and I was finally in the Bay area at about 10 am (1/2 hour ahead of schedule) when I all of the sudden found myself one lane too far to the left. Instead of finishing of the easy 10 or so miles into Berkeley, I was crossing a huge bay bridge. Which would not have been so bad (I've been lost before) if it were not for the toll booth, which, again, would not have been so bad had I been required to pay the 4 dollars. But no, the stars would not have it that easy. I was towing a trailer so it had to be 6 dollars, two more than I had on me. So, they lady said she would take a photo of the license plate and bill me the fine/fare (which of course cannot have worked considering the lack of a license plate on the jeep, it being new and all). So maybe I got off lucky?
I finally found my way back across the bridge and gunning toward Emeryville where I had reserved a self-storage unit to keep all of our junk out of our way as we passed our little 5-week sojourn in LA. Unfortunately, there was only me to unload the back of the jeep and the entire trailer which, I am sure, amounted to about 40 tons of stuff and a freaking heavy record player (which I moved by my lonesome). After about 3 hours of that, I was completely unloaded and ready to take the U-Haul back to the place. But apparently UHaul and Berkeley had some sort of falling out that they don't allow them in the city anymore (or something like that). Either way, the result of which caused a surprising lack of a convenient place to ditch it. I called about 4 people trying to find someone on the internet to look up a drop-off and my brutha Eric told me to get the Verizon gps directional thing on my phone. So I did, it cost $3, but the direction was not found so I was still up the river.
At this point I thought I was late for the Teach for America Induction week sign-in, so I decided to forget about the stupid UHaul and go to sign in. Which I did. and they were nice to me and gave me a super nice computer bag with TEACH FOR AMERICA embroidered on it. there was internet in the lobby, so i got directions to a UHaul in Oakland, snuck out of the hotel, and returned the cursed trailer. It feels great to not have it on the back of the jeep anymore.
I got back to the hotel in time to sit down as the opening ceremony (of sorts) began so I had to sit through like 4 hours of speeches and talks (which were good) in my sweaty, gross, stinky pants and shirt. Then the meetings finally ended and I went to check into my room and my keys did not work and when i went to exchange them, the line was long as the freaking Bible and so I said screw it and went to eat dinner, still stinking.
I thought my mysterious, unknown and unnamed roomate had my key, but as it turns out, The receptionist at the hotel just screwed up the numbers. SO! now I am in my room, showered, and my roommate has yet to appear. Maybe I'll have my own room. That would be just delightful (seriously, not sarcastically) since I am beat and tired and anti-social. Dinner was good though.
As it stands at the moment, I am sluffing the video/photograph scavenger hunt social for some much needed relaxation. Socialism is for communists anyways.
And that is my first day of TFA.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Wake up! Swoopo.com is Scamming You
I took an Economics 101 course at BYU a couple of years ago taught by James Kearl. I admit, the class was stupid hard and required a ton of work, but at the same time, I learned a lot.
One of the lectures, Kearl managed to sell a $1 bill for like $1.25. Yeah seriously. He gave a kid a $1 bill and the kid gave him $1.25 for it. Incredible!? yes. I'll explain.
Kearl got up and said to the 800 or so people in the lecture hall, "We are going to have an auction today. i am going to auction off a $1 bill. but there is a catch. The person who wins the bill has to pay what he bid for it AS WELL AS the person who bidded just before him." Meanining, of course, if i bid $ .45 for the dollar and someone outbids me at $.50, the winner pays $.50 and I still have to pay my bid. So what do I do? I bid again because paying $.55 and getting $1 is better than losing my $.45. Well, the other guy knows that too, so he bids...then I bid...then he bids...$.60...$.65... and eventually, $.85 .... $.90 .... I bid $.95 and he bids $1.
So at this point, the dollar will be paid and a dollar will be recieved. Except that I also will have to pay my bid of $.95. I will LOSE $.95 if I dont win, so i decide to bid again, $1.05 because paying $1.05 and getting $1 back is better than losing $.95. But he does the same thing for the same reason. and so it goes, each person reasoning that paying $1.25 and getting back $1 is better than paying $1.20 and getting nothing.
I didn't bid, two other guys decided to go for it and sure enough, Kearl made about two dollars even after having to give up the dollar he was auctioning off.
Well, I really thought it was just a clever way to make to guys feel stupid in front of their peers, but I was amazed to find out it has a real world application. It is on www.swoopo.com. Here's the gig...
www.swoopo.com boasts that it is an online auction site (like ebay) that runs a little differently. It brags that it sells high end, brand new items (including brand new Apple macbooks) for pennies on the dollar. And it is true, they really have sold brand new apple notebooks for like, $255. But the gimmick is that the bidders have to pay $.75 for each bid, even if they do not end up winning. each bid also adds some 15 or 20 seconds to the auction. lets take the apple notebook scenario:
The auction starts at $.01 (one penny) and it is set up so each bid increases the price by another penny. When I started watching the auction, the price was up to $9.53 with some 3 min until the end of the auction. Curious, i waited until the auction got to about 20 seconds and sure enough, people started to bid and with each bid, the clock jumped up fifteen seconds, counted down, and popped back up to 15 seconds when someone else placed their bid. So i did the math after watching the auction get to about $10.35.
lets say the computer eventually sells at $255.35, a great deal for a computer that regularly costs $1200. so there were eventually 25,535 bids each costing the bidder $.75. The winner takes the computer home, adding up the selling price and however many bidding "credits" he used up in the auction, lets say he bid 200 times at $.75 each, add some 20 bucks for S/H, and the total he would pay for the computer would be some $420 saving $800. Nice.
Now lets look at swoopo.com's income they pay $1200 for the computer and they receive 255.35 from the winner, so they are in the hole som $800. But since there were 25,535 bids on the computer, they were able to pull in about $19,151.25. Add to that the $255 they received from the winner, $19,406.60 Yeah. thats correct. They sold a $1,200 computer for more than nineteen and a half THOUSAND dollars. and where did the extra money come from? the dozens of people who thought they actually purchase a brand new laptop for fifteen bucks.
It is dishonest and bad business. Shame on www.swoopo.com.
P.S. Check out the actual auction winner at http://www.swoopo.com/auction/apple-macbook-mb466ll-a-13-3-inch-laptop/139701.html
This is what it said to the winner...
savings = he paid 85% more than if he had just walked down the street and bought it at the store. Summary, "take an economics class" and "don't be stupid"
One of the lectures, Kearl managed to sell a $1 bill for like $1.25. Yeah seriously. He gave a kid a $1 bill and the kid gave him $1.25 for it. Incredible!? yes. I'll explain.
Kearl got up and said to the 800 or so people in the lecture hall, "We are going to have an auction today. i am going to auction off a $1 bill. but there is a catch. The person who wins the bill has to pay what he bid for it AS WELL AS the person who bidded just before him." Meanining, of course, if i bid $ .45 for the dollar and someone outbids me at $.50, the winner pays $.50 and I still have to pay my bid. So what do I do? I bid again because paying $.55 and getting $1 is better than losing my $.45. Well, the other guy knows that too, so he bids...then I bid...then he bids...$.60...$.65... and eventually, $.85 .... $.90 .... I bid $.95 and he bids $1.
So at this point, the dollar will be paid and a dollar will be recieved. Except that I also will have to pay my bid of $.95. I will LOSE $.95 if I dont win, so i decide to bid again, $1.05 because paying $1.05 and getting $1 back is better than losing $.95. But he does the same thing for the same reason. and so it goes, each person reasoning that paying $1.25 and getting back $1 is better than paying $1.20 and getting nothing.
I didn't bid, two other guys decided to go for it and sure enough, Kearl made about two dollars even after having to give up the dollar he was auctioning off.
Well, I really thought it was just a clever way to make to guys feel stupid in front of their peers, but I was amazed to find out it has a real world application. It is on www.swoopo.com. Here's the gig...
www.swoopo.com boasts that it is an online auction site (like ebay) that runs a little differently. It brags that it sells high end, brand new items (including brand new Apple macbooks) for pennies on the dollar. And it is true, they really have sold brand new apple notebooks for like, $255. But the gimmick is that the bidders have to pay $.75 for each bid, even if they do not end up winning. each bid also adds some 15 or 20 seconds to the auction. lets take the apple notebook scenario:
The auction starts at $.01 (one penny) and it is set up so each bid increases the price by another penny. When I started watching the auction, the price was up to $9.53 with some 3 min until the end of the auction. Curious, i waited until the auction got to about 20 seconds and sure enough, people started to bid and with each bid, the clock jumped up fifteen seconds, counted down, and popped back up to 15 seconds when someone else placed their bid. So i did the math after watching the auction get to about $10.35.
lets say the computer eventually sells at $255.35, a great deal for a computer that regularly costs $1200. so there were eventually 25,535 bids each costing the bidder $.75. The winner takes the computer home, adding up the selling price and however many bidding "credits" he used up in the auction, lets say he bid 200 times at $.75 each, add some 20 bucks for S/H, and the total he would pay for the computer would be some $420 saving $800. Nice.
Now lets look at swoopo.com's income they pay $1200 for the computer and they receive 255.35 from the winner, so they are in the hole som $800. But since there were 25,535 bids on the computer, they were able to pull in about $19,151.25. Add to that the $255 they received from the winner, $19,406.60 Yeah. thats correct. They sold a $1,200 computer for more than nineteen and a half THOUSAND dollars. and where did the extra money come from? the dozens of people who thought they actually purchase a brand new laptop for fifteen bucks.
It is dishonest and bad business. Shame on www.swoopo.com.
P.S. Check out the actual auction winner at http://www.swoopo.com/auction/apple-macbook-mb466ll-a-13-3-inch-laptop/139701.html
This is what it said to the winner...
Congratulations,
Koschili!
Koschili!
Savings: 0%
| Savings: | ||
| Worth up to: | $1,299.00 | |
| Placed bids (2872): | $2,154.00 | |
| FreeBids (0): | $0.00 | |
| Final price: | $255.29 | |
| Savings: | $0.0 | |
savings = he paid 85% more than if he had just walked down the street and bought it at the store. Summary, "take an economics class" and "don't be stupid"
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Status Update
Here is what is happening in life!
Charisse was accepted to Duke University (Fully funded w/ stipend), University of Texas Austin (funded with an ok stipend), Vanderbilt (Funded and stipend comparable to Duke), and Berkeley (not funded for 2 years). She has declined U of T, Austin and recently Vanderbilt after visiting Duke and being very impressed. So she was flying home last weekend and missed a call from Berkeley encouraging her to come to the recruitment weekend because they are "confident the funding will work out" which is being translated as "you are number one on the alternate list." So they will likely offer funding and stipends comparable to Duke. SO! as it stands now, we are deciding whether to live in North Carolina (Duke) or Northern California (Berkeley).
We are visiting Berkeley this next weekend for a few days where Charisse will be able to meet the faculty and see campus/the area.
Charisse will be working on her PhD in English literature focusing on Eighteenth Century British works.
I am graduating from BYU in April in Middle East Studies/Arabic so my schedule is full of capstone, writing, religion, and politics classes and for those that were wondering, I am writing my capstone on Mark Twain and Theodore Herzl/Early Zionism.
For the past few weeks I have been going through the application process to become a corps member at Teach For America. TFA hires new college graduates and trains them to be public school teachers for 2 years in urban and rural struggling school districts all over the country. Since they have programs in Eastern North Carolina and the Bay Area, CA, I decided it would be a good fit. In addition to being a teach for 2 years, I will likely be able to earn my Master's degree in Education in the process.
I have passed the first round of cuts and was invited to participate in a phone interview which I completed last week. If I did well and they are still interested, I will be invited to a face to face interview at the end of march. I'll find out tomorrow (March 9) if I made it. From there, I attend the day long interview, and if I pass, they will give me an assignment to accept/decline.
So the sum of it all is we are in a crazy waiting period with big possibilities if they all pan out. And if they don't, the worst case scenario is Charisse being 100% funded for 5-6 years, getting her PhD, and myself finding a job that will set me up for my next jolt of schooling.
On a different note, Charisse and I just got back from Cedar City where we spent the weekend at her parent's house with her family. We played Swashbuckled, slept in, went to Zion National Park (looking for my great great grand father's grave but to no avail), ate at Golden Corral, visited Charisse's Grandmother in St. George, ordained her brother Brett to the Melchizedek Priesthood (he was called to be a missionary in Budapest...Buchapest....err....Bucharest! Romania), and ate a wonderful family dinner together. It was a delightful weekend.
We are living in my late great grandmother's condo in Orem which is going on the housing market this week. So we have a laundry list of tasks to complete during the 4 day interim between weekend jaunts. Grandpa Stephens and his brothers have been working with a realtor to fix the place up and get it on the market. So Charisse and I get to earn our stay by keeping the place spic-n-span and "lived in." It is a lot of work, but we are grateful for a place to live. We will be even more grateful if the economic downturn gives a a place to live for a few more months. It sure would suck to have to move out at the same time as finals...
All in all, Life has given us some tough decisions to make, but we can't really complain because the choices we have are evidence and consequences of some pretty spectacular blessings.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Belief o Matic tells me I'm a Mormon
Hey this is cool. You answer a bunch of questions and the Belief o Matic tells me what religion I should be. Also, it is interesting to see how much I can relate to other faith systems! check it out Belief-o-Matic on Beliefnet.com.
To send your Belief-O-Matic Quiz results to a friend please click here.
Your Results
The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.
Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.
1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (100%)
2. Jehovah's Witness (87%)
3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%)
4. Baha'i Faith (74%)
5. Sikhism (73%)
6. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (73%)
7. Orthodox Judaism (70%)
8. Islam (60%)
9. Orthodox Quaker (59%)
10. Liberal Quakers (55%)
11. Reform Judaism (49%)
12. Eastern Orthodox (47%)
13. Roman Catholic (47%)
14. Jainism (47%)
15. Unitarian Universalism (46%)
16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (45%)
17. Hinduism (45%)
18. Seventh Day Adventist (45%)
19. Mahayana Buddhism (40%)
20. Theravada Buddhism (39%)
21. Neo-Pagan (34%)
22. Taoism (27%)
23. New Age (26%)
24. Secular Humanism (26%)
25. New Thought (24%)
26. Scientology (22%)
27. Nontheist (17%)
To send your Belief-O-Matic Quiz results to a friend please click here.
Your Results
The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.
Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.
1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (100%)
2. Jehovah's Witness (87%)
3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%)
4. Baha'i Faith (74%)
5. Sikhism (73%)
6. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (73%)
7. Orthodox Judaism (70%)
8. Islam (60%)
9. Orthodox Quaker (59%)
10. Liberal Quakers (55%)
11. Reform Judaism (49%)
12. Eastern Orthodox (47%)
13. Roman Catholic (47%)
14. Jainism (47%)
15. Unitarian Universalism (46%)
16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (45%)
17. Hinduism (45%)
18. Seventh Day Adventist (45%)
19. Mahayana Buddhism (40%)
20. Theravada Buddhism (39%)
21. Neo-Pagan (34%)
22. Taoism (27%)
23. New Age (26%)
24. Secular Humanism (26%)
25. New Thought (24%)
26. Scientology (22%)
27. Nontheist (17%)
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Mark Twain and Satan
Mark Twain wrote:
"I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue Bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. We have none but the evidence for the prosecution, and yet we have rendered the verdict. To my mind, this is irregular. It is un-English; it is un-American; it is French. Without this precedent Dreyfus could not have been condemned. Of course Satan has some kind of a case, it goes without saying. It may be a poor one, but that is nothing; that can be said about any of us. As soon as I can get at the facts I will undertake his rehabilitation myself, if I can find an unpolitic publisher. It is a thing which we ought to be willing to do for any one who is under a cloud. We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order. In his large presence the other popes and politicians shrink to midges for the microscope. I would like to see him. I would rather see him and shake him by the tail than any other member of the European Concert."
I just thought it was interesting!
Oh. and I have decided to write my capstone on late 17th Century Zionist writings (mostly Theodore Herzl) and the phrase from Twain:
"Speaking of concentration, Dr. Herzl has a clear insight into the value of that. Have you heard of his plan? He wishes to gather the Jews of the world together in Palestine, with a government of their own—under the suzerainty of the Sultan, I suppose. At the Convention of Berne, last year, there were delegates from everywhere, and the proposal was received with decided favour. I am not the Sultan, and I am not objecting; but if that concentration of the cunningest brains in the world were going to be made in a free country (bar Scotland), I think it would be politic to stop it. It will not be well to let that race find out its strength. If the horses knew theirs, we should not ride any more."
Interesting. At least I hope so.
Until Next timE! - Cory
PS Apple let me download the soundtrack to Rocky...so I will probably start working out finally.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Magnavox Cabinet! a picture tour
As many likely know, Charisse and I live in my late Great Grandmother's condo in Orem. As we were cleaning one day, we discovered that the cabinet in the front room was not actually a cabinet, but rather a large cabinet radio, record player, and 8-track deck. Since then we have collected a few records and think it is probably the coolest thing ever. We were indeed very grateful when Aunty Sheila said we could have it as an inheritance. Sweet. To the best of my knowledge, it was top-o-the-line when it was made in 1974.
Even better, I was able to disconnect the 8-track and in its place I put a 3.5 mm Audio in cable so i can now play my iPod through the cabinet.
On a more recent note, I have a story! I decided to play the Beatles "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" when Charisse and I realized that it was playing painfully slow. So, using my highly developed problem solving skills, I took noted a point on the record as it passed the stabilizing bar and set my iPod stopwatch for 1 min. Counting, I found out that the table was only spinning at a meager 28rpm. I proceeded to take the face of the spinning table off, separate all of the washers and ball bearings, cleaned them up, sprayed some WD-40 throughout and put it back together. Great DAY! it was now at a notperfectbutacceptable speed of 32 rpm (of the correct 33 1/3 rpm). Sweet.
To my dismay, though, the speed soon decreased again. It was actually the reason I realized that the thermostat was out of whack and the room was only 55 degrees. I figured the cold was affecting the speed somehow. So in summary, the record player tipped me off that ir was freezing cold in my house.
Here are cool pictures:
Even better, I was able to disconnect the 8-track and in its place I put a 3.5 mm Audio in cable so i can now play my iPod through the cabinet.
On a more recent note, I have a story! I decided to play the Beatles "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" when Charisse and I realized that it was playing painfully slow. So, using my highly developed problem solving skills, I took noted a point on the record as it passed the stabilizing bar and set my iPod stopwatch for 1 min. Counting, I found out that the table was only spinning at a meager 28rpm. I proceeded to take the face of the spinning table off, separate all of the washers and ball bearings, cleaned them up, sprayed some WD-40 throughout and put it back together. Great DAY! it was now at a notperfectbutacceptable speed of 32 rpm (of the correct 33 1/3 rpm). Sweet.
To my dismay, though, the speed soon decreased again. It was actually the reason I realized that the thermostat was out of whack and the room was only 55 degrees. I figured the cold was affecting the speed somehow. So in summary, the record player tipped me off that ir was freezing cold in my house.
Here are cool pictures:
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