Old to some, no doubt, but new to me:

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Remember those flat round things you may have found lying around the house. Those that never really worked well as flying saucers? Well, the other day I happenned to have a good look at one through a magnifying glass. I was able to discern something waveform’esqe in the shape of the grooves. I thought, “groovy, there must be a way to extract something sensible off of that” (actual thought quoted). At which point I came up with some great excuses ^H^H^H^H reasons to have a go

…leading to his attempts to decode a LP record, using an image scanner.

Surprising, is probably the best word.