[Kzyxtalk] Merlin Tinker's retirement interview.

[Erif]

Thank you, Marco!  I will be sure to listen.
And thank you, Merlin, for being the wonderful being that you are, and 
being part of our community.
Best wishes all around,
Erif.

On 3/15/2018 3:04 AM, Marco McClean wrote:
> On 3/14/2018 7:59 AM, Jacque Armstrong wrote:
>   > Me Too!!! Just make sure you announce several time as I do not stay
> up late, and will have to borrow a radio.
>
>
> So, Jacque and others, Merlin gave me directions and I went to his house
> and recorded the interview on my old tablet, set on a hassock in the
> living room. There's a little noise, but that kind of adds to things.
> There are these lovely chime clocks every once in awhile bonging out a
> collective aimless tune together --kind of like at Juanita's house,
> except these ones have real bells in them, not a chip-- and the rain
> starts and stops on the roof. The refrigerator compressor clicks on and
> off. Somewhere in the distance a dog barks. The sound quality changes
> abruptly when I pick the recorder up and we move into the shop, a small
> room, to examine the tools, including of course the wondrous antique
> dentist's drill that he uses for fine work. You get to hear it whizz and
> spark. And photographs. Photographs on the radio.
>
> It's neat; we all know Merlin Tinker fixed sewing machines and other
> machines for umpty-ump years, but most of what he talks about in the
> interview is his previous life in early-and-mid-1960s computer
> programming for various companies: airlines, railroads, American
> Cyanamid, DuPont. And his ending-up-in-Northwest-Nowhere story is at the
> same time your ordinary story and not your ordinary story. Also we find
> out how his hand got that way.
>
> I'll just play the whole thing for the first hour of my show on Friday,
> and then if you miss that because 9pm is too late, even after daylight
> saving time, the recording of the show will be up on my weblog, as
> usual, by Saturday night, and you can get it there.
>
> Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio: Every Friday, 9pm to 4 or 5am on
> 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg, and 105.1fm KMEC-LP Ukiah. And also there
> and anywhere else via http://knyo.org or http://kmecradio.org and if
> none of that works for you try http://TuneIn.com and look up KNYO-LP.
> (TuneIn might play a loud thirty-second-long ad of their own for soda
> pop or condoms or laxative beer or something before it passes you
> through. Don't be frightened away.)
>
> --
> Marco McClean
> memo at mcn.org
> http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com
>
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