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Hi, I’m Blaine. I enjoy reading, building software, hiking, making music, and playing games.

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Scott lessthanthree's Kerry

Kerry is a babe #

This past weekend my wife and I went to a market event where I picked up a great mixtape.

A cassette tape case on a desk

The tape required fixing a previous repair job that kept the tape from rewinding or playing past the massive hunk of tape.

A hand holding a piece of broken tape next to a tape and notebook

The quality is shit, but A for effort #

The recording is very tinny and in several places almost difficult to listen to at normal volumes. The songs lack dynamic range, but I don’t think it’s from the tape itself. This specific model and manufacturing year of Maxell is highly regarded by modern tape scholars (tapeheads, as they cleverly call themselves). Since the sound is fairly consistently thin for each of the songs, I imagine Scott recorded this tape using a handheld recorder in front of his stereo speakers.

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