1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,871 Well, apparently I have a million subscribers now. 2 00:00:05,367 --> 00:00:06,628 Thank you. 3 00:00:06,628 --> 00:00:11,562 I truly never thought that that would happen, but, well since it has 4 00:00:11,562 --> 00:00:13,967 I suppose it’s  time for a celebration! 5 00:00:13,967 --> 00:00:16,841 Roughly an entire month later… 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:18,824 So what are we gonna do? 7 00:00:18,824 --> 00:00:21,528 We’re gonna talk  about this set 8 00:00:21,528 --> 00:00:24,106 which is real and exists. 9 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,531 I oughta know, I built the thing and moved it! 10 00:00:27,531 --> 00:00:31,783 Now, a lot of you have wondered what exactly all the things are amongst the shelves, 11 00:00:31,783 --> 00:00:35,084 and now you won’t have to wonder anymore because I’m going to tell you! 12 00:00:35,084 --> 00:00:36,906 With words and visuals! 13 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,526 First, what is the set? How is it built? 14 00:00:40,526 --> 00:00:44,787 Well, it hails from everyone’s favorite source of meatballs, IKEA. 15 00:00:44,787 --> 00:00:46,812 A 5 X 5 Kallax, 16 00:00:46,812 --> 00:00:47,819 kalLAX? 17 00:00:47,819 --> 00:00:48,601 Kaylax? 18 00:00:48,601 --> 00:00:50,214 unit makes up the main bit, 19 00:00:50,214 --> 00:00:53,673 and there are two 1 X 4 units on either side. 20 00:00:53,673 --> 00:00:56,793 These drawers and doors: they actually hold things! 21 00:00:56,793 --> 00:00:57,639 Look! 22 00:00:58,417 --> 00:01:00,871 I keep some of my camera gear  behind my head, 23 00:01:00,871 --> 00:01:02,476 and up here... 24 00:01:03,405 --> 00:01:04,318 is some junk. 25 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,532 I got some white board markers in here, 26 00:01:08,532 --> 00:01:10,555 some probes in there for my oscilloscope 27 00:01:10,555 --> 00:01:13,099 which sits on top of the set where you can’t see it… 28 00:01:13,099 --> 00:01:15,946 and, uh, oooh! 29 00:01:15,946 --> 00:01:17,618 a TV remote! 30 00:01:17,618 --> 00:01:18,462 Curious. 31 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,088 I also got some lighting from the meatball  store, 32 00:01:21,088 --> 00:01:25,291 just the basic warm white puck things but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by them - 33 00:01:25,291 --> 00:01:29,916 I did, though, spend quite a few hours with an industrial Sharpie making them black 34 00:01:29,916 --> 00:01:31,651 and not cream colored. 35 00:01:31,651 --> 00:01:34,533 I used electrical tape to make the wiring less noticeable 36 00:01:34,533 --> 00:01:35,904 against the black shelves, 37 00:01:35,904 --> 00:01:39,411 and the wires are run vertically along the edges behind it. 38 00:01:39,411 --> 00:01:44,569 Up at the very top there’s some cheap LED tape light  attached to a piece of quarter round trim, 39 00:01:44,569 --> 00:01:46,626 also blacked out with sharpie. 40 00:01:46,626 --> 00:01:50,176 And all the power cords and other junk ends up down here 41 00:01:50,176 --> 00:01:53,061 in this terrible rat’s nest of wires! 42 00:01:53,061 --> 00:01:58,017 But it’s on a switched outlet so all I  need to do is flip a switch and it all comes on. 43 00:01:58,017 --> 00:02:00,990 Then of course there are the lava  lamps in a couple of the shelves 44 00:02:00,990 --> 00:02:06,514 (and I really should consider moving them, or perhaps  add more…) 45 00:02:06,514 --> 00:02:09,378 and we’ll get to the colored light elements in a bit. 46 00:02:09,378 --> 00:02:12,503 Oh, and the rest of these cubbies down here are empty because 47 00:02:12,503 --> 00:02:15,094 I haven’t been bothered to figure out what to  put in them yet. 48 00:02:15,094 --> 00:02:16,880 I am terrible at organization! 49 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,130 But let’s get to the more interesting bits: the  contents of the shelves. 50 00:02:22,130 --> 00:02:25,101 Things have been rotated in and out a fair bit over time, 51 00:02:25,101 --> 00:02:28,034 and in fact  I’d like to do more of that as time goes on, 52 00:02:28,034 --> 00:02:30,535 but it’s been fairly consistent. 53 00:02:30,535 --> 00:02:33,730 A not insignificant portion of the stuff in this set 54 00:02:33,730 --> 00:02:36,605 was given to me by friends and family over the years, 55 00:02:36,605 --> 00:02:39,296 and my fascination with these various objects 56 00:02:39,296 --> 00:02:42,934 is pretty much the reason I’m the  particular weirdo I am. 57 00:02:42,934 --> 00:02:44,000 So let’s discuss! 58 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:46,525 We’ll start with these things. 59 00:02:46,525 --> 00:02:49,090 These are LED  traffic light modules. 60 00:02:49,090 --> 00:02:52,974 I bought them for the first video that was made in front of the fully completed set, 61 00:02:52,974 --> 00:02:56,679 "The LED traffic light and the danger of But Sometimes!" 62 00:02:56,679 --> 00:03:01,512 I still kinda want to get one that has a green lens so it’s a little more obvious what these are, 63 00:03:01,512 --> 00:03:06,535 but it turns out the clear lens on green is a rather common safety feature! 64 00:03:06,535 --> 00:03:11,173 If the sun hits traffic lights in the right  way, they can appear to be lit - 65 00:03:11,173 --> 00:03:16,761 a clear lens on the green light prevents it from appearing  green unless it is actually lit. 66 00:03:16,761 --> 00:03:18,027 Neat! 67 00:03:18,027 --> 00:03:20,435 But let’s move on to where there’s more stuff. 68 00:03:20,435 --> 00:03:23,968 Up  here is my now dead Sony PRS-505 69 00:03:23,968 --> 00:03:27,732 which died with this excellent ghost image on the screen. 70 00:03:27,732 --> 00:03:33,147 It sits  atop a fully-functional NES which is now a prop because I don’t use it enough. 71 00:03:33,147 --> 00:03:36,171 A gamer I am not, really. 72 00:03:36,171 --> 00:03:39,873 If nobody’s noticed this cartridge, this is for a Commodore 64, 73 00:03:39,873 --> 00:03:43,139 a copy of HesWare Turtle  Graphics II - 74 00:03:43,139 --> 00:03:48,762 a sort of educational programming game slash software thing, if I remember right. 75 00:03:48,762 --> 00:03:51,931 I used to have a C64 and a bunch of random stuff for it, 76 00:03:51,931 --> 00:03:57,360 but I lost interest in it and, uh, well  no longer have much of anything related to it. 77 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,045 Yeah… I regret that. 78 00:04:01,045 --> 00:04:05,270 Anyway, finishing it up we  have a Mold-A-Rama bust of Abraham Lincoln, 79 00:04:05,270 --> 00:04:08,038 made at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, 80 00:04:08,038 --> 00:04:12,061 the transparent paints from my latest Christmas light coloring nonsense 81 00:04:12,061 --> 00:04:14,344 (which was now over a year  ago) 82 00:04:14,344 --> 00:04:16,893 and this old 12V battery from Radioshack. 83 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,132 Next we have the Camera Corner! 84 00:04:19,132 --> 00:04:22,673 This is where the Canon F-1 and Canon T90 live. 85 00:04:22,673 --> 00:04:25,662 These were both permanently loaned to me by a family  friend, 86 00:04:25,662 --> 00:04:27,503 and I learned photography on these. 87 00:04:27,503 --> 00:04:31,955 Truly I wouldn’t have the proficiency to operate  a camera that I do without these, 88 00:04:31,955 --> 00:04:37,757 especially since I use a mirrorless camera which behaves more like a stills camera than a true cinema camera. 89 00:04:37,757 --> 00:04:40,358 Oh, and to those in the know, don’t worry - 90 00:04:40,358 --> 00:04:44,159 I do take the T90 out and exercise its shutter periodically. 91 00:04:44,159 --> 00:04:50,985 The T90 sits atop a stack of VHS tapes and a couple  of CDs to elevate it above this 120 box camera, 92 00:04:50,985 --> 00:04:53,394 which I have yet to actually use. 93 00:04:53,394 --> 00:04:55,157 That was an antique store find. 94 00:04:55,157 --> 00:04:59,659 And back here is a rather phallic sandcastle I found at a thrift  store, 95 00:04:59,659 --> 00:05:01,859 and behind it is a fake Swedish plant. 96 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,489 Next we have a crystal radio! 97 00:05:04,489 --> 00:05:06,926 Yep, that’s what this box is. 98 00:05:06,926 --> 00:05:11,504 I don’t know if it actually works - it was a gift and I’ve no idea how to use it properly. 99 00:05:11,504 --> 00:05:14,549 But up here is the actual crystal and cat whisker, 100 00:05:14,549 --> 00:05:16,252 as well as the tuning knobs. 101 00:05:16,252 --> 00:05:19,657 I’m pretty sure this was a hand-made kit given the writing on here. 102 00:05:19,657 --> 00:05:22,349 It’s filled with some colorful audio cassettes up top, 103 00:05:22,349 --> 00:05:24,395 and some plain ones to its side. 104 00:05:24,395 --> 00:05:27,120 Sally the Snail sits slimily in front of it. 105 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:29,951 And here’s a rather hodge podgey shelf! 106 00:05:29,951 --> 00:05:34,754 Center and most important is a somewhat rare telephone model called the Galion, 107 00:05:34,754 --> 00:05:40,892 hailing from the 1940’s and made by North Electric as a competitor to the Western Electric 302. 108 00:05:40,892 --> 00:05:45,390 It’s notable for being oriented sideways compared to most other desk phones, 109 00:05:45,390 --> 00:05:47,767 being wider than it is deep. 110 00:05:47,767 --> 00:05:50,985 It works, but unfortunately its ringer does not. 111 00:05:50,985 --> 00:05:54,566 I do however like that its original phone number label is intact. 112 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,897 In front of it is a can of Silvertone recording  wire and a double light switch, 113 00:05:59,897 --> 00:06:05,840 and behind it is what I thought was a skein of red yarn, but is  probably large enough that it’s really a hank.   114 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,971 Yes, a hank of yarn. 115 00:06:08,971 --> 00:06:10,845 Learn something new everyday. 116 00:06:10,845 --> 00:06:13,022 You can’t really see it head-on but it’s there, 117 00:06:13,022 --> 00:06:14,491 and that’s what counts! 118 00:06:14,491 --> 00:06:17,171 Back when I made the videos on analog television, 119 00:06:17,171 --> 00:06:20,352 I used this yarn to make the scanning animation. 120 00:06:20,352 --> 00:06:25,053 We also have a functional light socket holding a squirrel-cage Edison-style light bulb, 121 00:06:25,053 --> 00:06:28,808 and a modern LED version of this sits unused for… 122 00:06:29,086 --> 00:06:32,426 reasons. Oh, and there’s another fake Swedish plant. 123 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:34,920 Next is the soldering station. 124 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:39,055 This is actually where I keep my soldering iron and its associated junk, 125 00:06:39,055 --> 00:06:41,405 as well as my DC power supply. 126 00:06:41,405 --> 00:06:45,645 If you’ve been paying really close attention, you’ll see that this shelf has changed the most 127 00:06:45,645 --> 00:06:49,170 because I actually need the things in it from time to time. 128 00:06:49,170 --> 00:06:51,159 And right now the soldering iron's missing! 129 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:57,205 There's also a pin from Epcot’s Millenium  celebration I found in one of my junk box goings through. 130 00:06:57,205 --> 00:07:00,168 Oh, and a fake Swedish plant, of course. 131 00:07:00,168 --> 00:07:02,329 Here’s a trick I actually learned in school - 132 00:07:02,329 --> 00:07:06,226 the DC power supply is sitting on  a plastic storage container 133 00:07:06,226 --> 00:07:11,213 that’s been covered in black fabric to make a tasteful  but cheap makeshift display stand. 134 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:13,982 And now here’s another hodge podgey cube. 135 00:07:13,982 --> 00:07:18,733 On another tupperware stand is my late grandfather’s 8mm movie camera. 136 00:07:18,733 --> 00:07:22,582 It is… sort of functional - you can get it to run 137 00:07:22,582 --> 00:07:24,760 if you force the winding key forward, 138 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,539 I suspect it just needs a good lubrication. 139 00:07:27,539 --> 00:07:30,609 Opposite to it is a movie reel that it shot. 140 00:07:30,609 --> 00:07:33,392 There’s also the basic thermostat from the thermostat video, 141 00:07:33,392 --> 00:07:35,111 one of the many additions over the years, 142 00:07:35,111 --> 00:07:39,341 and a 5 inch CRT from a cheap portable black and white television, 143 00:07:39,341 --> 00:07:42,400 the same one I used in the analog television videos years ago. 144 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,284 And then we have yet another fake  Swedish plant, and a lava lamp. 145 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:51,066 Down here is the Betamovie and  some Beta cassettes. 146 00:07:51,066 --> 00:07:52,182 [extended pause] 147 00:07:52,571 --> 00:07:53,269 That’s it. 148 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:57,302 Next we have a Sony television set that many of  you have asked about. 149 00:07:57,302 --> 00:08:00,612 This is a portable model, the TV-750, 150 00:08:00,612 --> 00:08:03,852 and It appears to have been introduced  in 1972. 151 00:08:03,852 --> 00:08:06,722 It still works, but barely. 152 00:08:06,722 --> 00:08:11,622 The picture tube is quite dim and I’m sure this could  do with a complete electronics restoration. 153 00:08:11,622 --> 00:08:16,079 I would show you but I don’t know  where its power cord is at present so… 154 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:17,172 sorry. 155 00:08:17,172 --> 00:08:21,120 A monochrome Rubik’s cube sits  atop it because it’s insufferably clever. 156 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,529 This next cube is an assortment of objects. 157 00:08:24,529 --> 00:08:29,166 This mug is covered in the original Future World pavilion logos from EPCOT Center, 158 00:08:29,166 --> 00:08:32,814 released in mug-form as part of EPCOT’s 35th anniversary. 159 00:08:32,814 --> 00:08:35,060 Then there’s a lava lamp behind it. 160 00:08:35,060 --> 00:08:37,676 This snake was just a thrift store find - 161 00:08:37,676 --> 00:08:40,926 I sort of suspect somebody’s child painted this thing? 162 00:08:40,926 --> 00:08:43,888 I dunno, sorry Jimmy  if your parents didn’t keep it. 163 00:08:43,888 --> 00:08:48,817 And behind it is a very strange and slightly suggestive clown  figure. 164 00:08:48,817 --> 00:08:50,800 I’ve named it Disposo, naturally. 165 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:57,600 Directly behind me which you can’t ever see during  talking heads is a very important-to-me radio.   166 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:03,664 This is a Philco 42-PT7, a basic tabletop radio  from 1942. 167 00:09:03,664 --> 00:09:05,685 It’s a simple design, but very nice, 168 00:09:05,685 --> 00:09:09,154 and while it’s missing a knob it’s still quite beautiful to me. 169 00:09:09,154 --> 00:09:13,639 It’s important to me because it was really the first electronics  project I ever embarked on - 170 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:19,827 I recapped this radio many years ago, and it introduced me  to the world of antique radio collecting. 171 00:09:19,827 --> 00:09:22,351 I found it at an antique store in Michigan. 172 00:09:22,351 --> 00:09:28,977 Behind it is a framed Laserdisc of 1776 that sits there simply to hide what’s behind the set. 173 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:31,709 Next is another rather simple assortment of  things. 174 00:09:31,709 --> 00:09:34,779 It’s mostly reel-to-reel tape stuff, with a reel at the back, 175 00:09:34,779 --> 00:09:37,920 Scotch boxes, and of course a Spaceship Earth mug 176 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,576 which stays as part of the set because  it's a ridiculous mug to drink from. 177 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,280 There’s another functional light socket  with a squirrel-cage filament bulb,   178 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,534 though this one is a globe shape, 179 00:09:47,534 --> 00:09:50,754 and that pear is another random thrift store knick knack. 180 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,387 Over here is a pair of lanterns, 181 00:09:53,387 --> 00:09:57,555 one an old railroad lantern which leaks and the other… 182 00:09:57,555 --> 00:09:59,612 well I don’t know the origin of this exactly 183 00:09:59,612 --> 00:10:01,091 but it’s not an antique, 184 00:10:01,091 --> 00:10:03,158 just a bit of decor. 185 00:10:03,158 --> 00:10:06,705 And there’s a white Mold-A-Rama figure of the Space Shuttle. 186 00:10:06,705 --> 00:10:10,320 Lanterns will be coming as a subject in  the not-too-distant future, by the way. 187 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:12,887 Let’s talk about this cubby. 188 00:10:12,887 --> 00:10:15,066 Nothing has ever really gone here. 189 00:10:15,066 --> 00:10:19,001 I’ve been meaning to fix that for ages but… haven’t. 190 00:10:19,001 --> 00:10:22,619 Almost the entire time this set has been in use, 191 00:10:22,619 --> 00:10:27,081 there has been a DVD copy of The Terminal  starring Tom Hanks sitting there. 192 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,142 Don’t ask me why as I truly do not know, 193 00:10:30,142 --> 00:10:33,683 and in the last couple of months this loudspeaker driver and crossover 194 00:10:33,683 --> 00:10:35,520 have been sitting here because I’m lazy. 195 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,214 On the bottom-right is the closed captioning  decoder, 196 00:10:39,214 --> 00:10:42,321 and a dolphin figurine that I claimed when my parents moved 197 00:10:42,321 --> 00:10:44,265 sits on top because I like it. 198 00:10:44,265 --> 00:10:47,361 And yes, the Teletext video hasn’t happened yet. 199 00:10:47,361 --> 00:10:50,698 I'm very aware of that. I’m just… 200 00:10:50,698 --> 00:10:53,360 well we’ll get there eventually. I promise. 201 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:55,782 Alright, and top row! 202 00:10:55,782 --> 00:10:59,184 This is the vast majority of my Laserdisc collection. 203 00:10:59,184 --> 00:11:02,240 I’ve got a few things that aren’t  here but this is mostly it. 204 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,094 Yep, I’m not a huge collector of them - 205 00:11:05,094 --> 00:11:08,725 they’re just delightfully giant optical discs and fun to use. 206 00:11:08,725 --> 00:11:11,680 Definitely not, like, my favorite way to watch a movie, though. 207 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,046 Then we see the wee little GE TV that me got for free 208 00:11:16,046 --> 00:11:17,209 (tee hee) 209 00:11:17,209 --> 00:11:19,183 at a garage sale years ago. 210 00:11:19,183 --> 00:11:22,212 A couple of VHS sleeves for Cosmos sit atop it, 211 00:11:22,212 --> 00:11:27,564 and the RGB electron gun of flashlights from the shadow mask video sit atop it as well. 212 00:11:27,564 --> 00:11:31,156 Unfortunately something went wrong with the deflection yoke on this thing 213 00:11:31,156 --> 00:11:33,360 and now the screen is all trapezoidal and messed up. 214 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:38,955 Not too much of a shame, though, as this thing  is more useful as a prop than a TV, anyway. 215 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,179 Next to it are my CEDs, 216 00:11:41,179 --> 00:11:44,733 they’ve been up here since before the CED series ever got made. 217 00:11:44,733 --> 00:11:50,438 Sitting in front of them is a Walkman which is  aesthetically excellent but functionally a little off - 218 00:11:50,438 --> 00:11:55,176 it’s got a new belt but there’s a lot of flutter so I never really used this thing, 219 00:11:55,176 --> 00:11:59,366 even though it’s an auto-reverse Walkman with  Dolby B and again is… 220 00:11:59,366 --> 00:12:01,546 just excellent looking. 221 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,800 Marty the Squirrel, another thrift store knick  knack, sits in front of a pair of Sony Dynamicron   222 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:12,033 VHS slipcovers, and an L-750 Beta sleeve is  above it at a wonky angle. 223 00:12:12,033 --> 00:12:14,852 There are also two books given to me by a friend - 224 00:12:14,852 --> 00:12:17,040 including a penny collector’s collection collector. 225 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:20,182 And lastly there’s the top right cubby. 226 00:12:20,182 --> 00:12:21,719 This has another antique radio, 227 00:12:21,719 --> 00:12:24,575 an AM-FM tabletop unit from Silvertone, 228 00:12:24,575 --> 00:12:26,612 and I also restored this one. 229 00:12:26,612 --> 00:12:28,441 Last time I fired it up it worked great, 230 00:12:28,441 --> 00:12:30,659 and I really do love the design of this. 231 00:12:30,659 --> 00:12:36,990 In front of it are spare knobs that I harvested from a different Silvertone radio long ago that happen to match it. 232 00:12:36,990 --> 00:12:42,281 On top of it is the Olympus Pen EES-2 which actually got a mention not too long ago 233 00:12:42,281 --> 00:12:45,553 (and a Sears brand flash unit is attached to it), 234 00:12:45,553 --> 00:12:50,614 and another Rubik’s cube, though this one with normal colors sits on top the radio. 235 00:12:50,614 --> 00:12:53,360 Oh, and behind it is some fake Swedish grass. 236 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,946 Finally, there’s an assortment of miscellanea  up top. 237 00:12:56,946 --> 00:13:01,228 A pair of Inifinity RS-2000 speakers sit atop the smaller cases 238 00:13:01,228 --> 00:13:03,264 because they’re aesthetically pleasing 239 00:13:03,264 --> 00:13:07,524 (and actually quite nice, though they have fairly weak bass response). 240 00:13:07,524 --> 00:13:12,091 Then there’s this 3D printed model I made basically at the very start of this channel 241 00:13:12,091 --> 00:13:16,523 to help visualize the difference between Edison’s vertically-cut cylinder records 242 00:13:16,523 --> 00:13:18,998 and Berliner’s laterally cut discs. 243 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,391 That’s right, I used to have a 3D printer, 244 00:13:21,391 --> 00:13:24,800 or rather I still do but it’s crap and broken. 245 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:29,057 Then there's the deflection yoke for the little 5 inch  CRT. 246 00:13:29,057 --> 00:13:31,149 It sits here because… 247 00:13:31,149 --> 00:13:33,198 because it was a good place to put it I guess? 248 00:13:33,198 --> 00:13:36,556 And there’s also a lonely  drill bit up here because… 249 00:13:36,556 --> 00:13:38,365 of course there is. 250 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,440 And that’s all the stuff you can see. 251 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,899 But before I go, there’s one other important thing goin’ on. 252 00:13:43,899 --> 00:13:45,232 The colors. 253 00:13:45,232 --> 00:13:48,008 Lately the set has looked  like this more often than not, 254 00:13:48,008 --> 00:13:51,684 but if you’ve been paying attention you’ll have  seen those colors change, 255 00:13:51,684 --> 00:13:55,642 and sometimes they’ve not been colors at all, but instead  imagery. 256 00:13:55,642 --> 00:13:58,862 And that’s what this remote is for. 257 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,255 See … those colors? 258 00:14:01,255 --> 00:14:03,335 Those come from a TV. 259 00:14:03,335 --> 00:14:05,218 Two to be more precise. 260 00:14:05,218 --> 00:14:08,669 There are two very cheap 55 inch TVs 261 00:14:08,669 --> 00:14:12,592 literally hanging off the back of this set facing me. 262 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:17,035 This set isn’t against the wall for this reason,  and that’s why the items at the top 263 00:14:17,035 --> 00:14:18,940 completely fill the cubbies. 264 00:14:18,940 --> 00:14:22,777 I didn’t want the chains that the TVs are hanging from to be visible, 265 00:14:22,777 --> 00:14:26,614 or for you to have much of a clue what exactly was  going on. 266 00:14:26,614 --> 00:14:29,109 This wasted cubby here with the drawers? 267 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,423 That wasn’t planned, I genuinely I had  this idea 268 00:14:32,423 --> 00:14:36,457 after I had already built this and started making inserts. 269 00:14:36,457 --> 00:14:39,428 But truthfully I think it makes the illusion all the better. 270 00:14:39,428 --> 00:14:43,744 Because I’m unforgivably lazy, the TVs are powered  by Chromecasts 271 00:14:43,744 --> 00:14:47,594 which mirror the desktops of my PC and Chromebook. 272 00:14:47,594 --> 00:14:52,190 I just set them up before I go  to film the talking head or B-roll, and that’s that. 273 00:14:52,190 --> 00:14:55,677 I made templates forever ago which I can  use to make more stuff, 274 00:14:55,677 --> 00:14:59,611 but I’ve been using this standard color grid for a while because I like it. 275 00:14:59,611 --> 00:15:03,316 Though, I may finally do what I set out to do long ago and set up a video 276 00:15:03,316 --> 00:15:05,538 where these slowly change  over time. 277 00:15:05,538 --> 00:15:09,118 I’m just, as I said, unforgivably lazy. 278 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:14,640 And that’s also why this set looks so  incredibly drab in some of my Connextras videos.   279 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,280 If I don’t power it up and set up the screens,   280 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,170 it just looks kind of… sad. 281 00:15:20,170 --> 00:15:23,040 Look, I’ll go cycle it off and on which will kill the TVs. 282 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,292 Sure, that’s much better than completely  off, 283 00:15:27,292 --> 00:15:31,508 but the stark black background is nowhere near as interesting. 284 00:15:31,508 --> 00:15:34,484 I’m actually quite proud of this idea if you can’t tell. 285 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,700 But I still can’t believe that I’m here right now. 286 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:43,336 Never in a million years did I think a million subscribers would happen. 287 00:15:43,336 --> 00:15:46,036 I thought I was just too weird, 288 00:15:46,036 --> 00:15:49,483 that this channel idea wouldn’t have wide enough appeal. 289 00:15:49,483 --> 00:15:51,349 I’m delighted to have been wrong 290 00:15:51,867 --> 00:15:55,718 (though I am still just… absurdly weird). 291 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:57,709 Thank you for subscribing, 292 00:15:57,709 --> 00:15:59,799 for watching my videos all these years, 293 00:15:59,799 --> 00:16:05,429 and leaving me with this bright spot at the  end of an otherwise incredibly awful year. 294 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:08,972 Yep, this actually happened in 2020. 295 00:16:08,972 --> 00:16:11,603 I was actually kind of hoping that wouldn’t happen, 296 00:16:11,603 --> 00:16:14,338 that the flip would occur in 2021, 297 00:16:14,338 --> 00:16:17,810 but something about dishwashers just really piqued your interest. 298 00:16:17,810 --> 00:16:21,195 I’ve been very fortunate in an otherwise tumultuous  year, 299 00:16:21,195 --> 00:16:23,835 and I try to remember that as often as I can. 300 00:16:23,835 --> 00:16:28,207 Of course, that wouldn’t be possible without  my amazing supporters on Patreon, 301 00:16:28,207 --> 00:16:31,259 and today I’d like to thank each and every one of you. 302 00:16:31,259 --> 00:16:34,105 Thank you for making Technology Connections possible, 303 00:16:34,105 --> 00:16:38,381 and for keeping me focused through this wild ride  of a year. 304 00:16:38,381 --> 00:16:42,234 Here’s to a brighter and better 2021! 305 00:16:43,112 --> 00:16:45,800 ♫ celebrationally smooth jazz ♫