If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#21
|
|||
|
|||
quarter - now gone OT
wrote in message ... In article , "mazorj" wrote: wrote in message ... In article , "mazorj" wrote: "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... .... I feel like the owner of a wind-up Edison cylinder phonograph in the age of Stereo LPs. James the Broken Record 'today's kids don't really know what that means' Just tell them "It's an analog method for looping from an older disk format." - mazorj the Steampunk Explicator steampunk is kinda just ok. difference engine is still best of genre. now if orson wrote with bill. damn! I'd rate it a little higher than that, but I used steampunk because it's a less obscure term that has had some circulation in general publications (plus that cinematic desecration of Sherlock Holmes). Only an SF wonk would know the difference. ;-) shlocklock bones you mean? let it die quickly. physical effort? wtf? yes, guilty of the wonk part. i even speak business groacian for commerce. you know, joy girls, dope sticks and cool shades for my occulars. to be enduring the curse of the two eyed with grace. to return to the breeding pits. to appreciate the new hive masters crop of talent.....ahhhhh. You must have some, uh, "interesting" clients if they grok all that. ;-) |
Ads |
#22
|
|||
|
|||
quarter - OT
wrote in message ... .... i believe i have one 32 bit xp with legal docs. i will look and hope they're not packed. i have other's on original xp discs but mybe not with authentic docs. those i don't feel good about giving away. and will not, but you do understand as your wording showed. thanks for that. too many people are cavelier about that. i believe mine is xp pro. that work? i will look in the morning. Pro is okay. Let me know what you find. And yes, I am a stickler about only using legitimate OEM. no, fixing vinyl is no crime. the choice is playable or garbage. i will repair as far back as 78rpm discs. before that i don't have the expertise. i have to do some real work on a disc sometimes to make it play. but if it doesn't skip, i can restore the surface, (get rid of dirt and spooge, not regroove of course.) and make it sound close to original. the law is minimum processing. just remove scratchy sounds and noise. make it sound as close to new as can. Okay, that's the same basic approach to proper (minimal) non-professional cleaning of coins. the soldering a cracked record was a joke. i'm sorry, i forget those not in the biz don't know. broken records can be fixed but that is for the super experts with much tech. No problem. It sounded too outrageous to be true, but having heard Library of Congress audio archivists discuss their highly sophisticated methods to pull audio off of decaying media, I didn't want to assume that you were just kidding. i had great teachers, so i know the softwear side of resto. i have done it enough to be good. if anyone has a disc that plays, i will digitize and make cd's for them. no charge to anyone in this group, except postage and cd costs. i will make your not on cd vinyl into a cd and it will sound awesome. it isn't me, it's the amazing music software. need a tune, maz? i will gladly do it for you. it's fun. and you get your record back, of course. I handle and store my LPs the same way I do with coins. Not even a stray fingerprint. And I recently bought a turntable with digital output so I can clean up and burn .WAV files on CDs (no lossy .mp3 for me). But thanks anyway. Maybe someone else here will take you up on your generous offer. I do have a project that you may find interesting. I have two acetates of me recorded on a coin-operated record machine in an amusement park when I was 3. I want to digitize them but have been putting it off for fear of messing them up. After 60 years they're probably as fragile as egg shells. I'll practice on my new turntable first using some old 45s so I think it will go okay (juxtaposing first and second digits and rapping phalanges on surface of lignified arboreal substance). - mazorj the Recordist |
#23
|
|||
|
|||
quarter
On Feb 24, 4:37*pm, ) wrote:
i just saw a virgin islands quarter. it is my favorite and actually the only state quarter design i truly like. it has a sparseness and economy of design that works well. uncluttered, unfettered by background noise and really representative of that part of the world, it looks like the where it's from. it really comes across because it doesn't make one think of the other state quarter from that area. using it with that crappy, outdated and useless obverse with the spaghetti hair, it manages to out shine the others by it's simple elegance. ymmv, i would like to hear YOUR fave and why. anyone seen james? Enjoying the discussion that went OT (computers and records), but I suppose we should attempt to stay on topic. Having seen only two DC-P quarters as my entire representation of 2009 quarters, I can't offer anything about Territorials. But I will submit my favorite SQs have bisons, wildlife, and UT (trains). Can't say one is better than the other, but I will say State outlines "bite the big one." Jerry |
#24
|
|||
|
|||
quarter
Jerry Dennis wrote:
On Feb 24, 4:37 pm, ) wrote: i just saw a virgin islands quarter. it is my favorite and actually the only state quarter design i truly like. it has a sparseness and economy of design that works well. uncluttered, unfettered by background noise and really representative of that part of the world, it looks like the where it's from. it really comes across because it doesn't make one think of the other state quarter from that area. using it with that crappy, outdated and useless obverse with the spaghetti hair, it manages to out shine the others by it's simple elegance. ymmv, i would like to hear YOUR fave and why. anyone seen james? Enjoying the discussion that went OT (computers and records), but I suppose we should attempt to stay on topic. Having seen only two DC-P quarters as my entire representation of 2009 quarters, I can't offer anything about Territorials. But I will submit my favorite SQs have bisons, wildlife, and UT (trains). Can't say one is better than the other, but I will say State outlines "bite the big one." Hey, be careful, or you might just inspire me to write a magazine-length article on state/territorial quarters and publish it here. James the Brazen |
#25
|
|||
|
|||
quarter
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... Jerry Dennis wrote: On Feb 24, 4:37 pm, ) wrote: i just saw a virgin islands quarter. it is my favorite and actually the only state quarter design i truly like. it has a sparseness and economy of design that works well. uncluttered, unfettered by background noise and really representative of that part of the world, it looks like the where it's from. it really comes across because it doesn't make one think of the other state quarter from that area. using it with that crappy, outdated and useless obverse with the spaghetti hair, it manages to out shine the others by it's simple elegance. ymmv, i would like to hear YOUR fave and why. anyone seen james? Enjoying the discussion that went OT (computers and records), but I suppose we should attempt to stay on topic. Having seen only two DC-P quarters as my entire representation of 2009 quarters, I can't offer anything about Territorials. But I will submit my favorite SQs have bisons, wildlife, and UT (trains). Can't say one is better than the other, but I will say State outlines "bite the big one." Hey, be careful, or you might just inspire me to write a magazine-length article on state/territorial quarters and publish it here. James the Brazen It'll be fair game, James. Otherwise, I have no particular favorite state quarter, especially after admiring photos of all those Austrian train and cathedral series issues. What artistry! I doubt our state quarter designs would have improved much even if given a larger surface to work with. Those Austrian series would make one collection I would love to own and display. .. |
#26
|
|||
|
|||
quarter
On Feb 27, 8:53*am, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
Jerry Dennis wrote: On Feb 24, 4:37 pm, ) wrote: i just saw a virgin islands quarter. it is my favorite and actually the only state quarter design i truly like. it has a sparseness and economy of design that works well. uncluttered, unfettered by background noise and really representative of that part of the world, it looks like the where it's from. it really comes across because it doesn't make one think of the other state quarter from that area. using it with that crappy, outdated and useless obverse with the spaghetti hair, it manages to out shine the others by it's simple elegance. ymmv, i would like to hear YOUR fave and why. anyone seen james? Enjoying the discussion that went OT (computers and records), but I suppose we should attempt to stay on topic. *Having seen only two DC-P quarters as my entire representation of 2009 quarters, I can't offer anything about Territorials. *But I will submit my favorite SQs have bisons, wildlife, and UT (trains). *Can't say one is better than the other, but I will say State outlines "bite the big one." Hey, be careful, or you might just inspire me to write a magazine-length article on state/territorial quarters and publish it here. James the Brazen- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I feel that the Maine Quarter is pretty great, especially in view of the coin's relatively small diameter. And yes, I like North Dakota's and Kansas' buffalos a lot. Alaska's bear is worthy too. I've seen all the 2009 quarters in circulation now, except the Northern Marianas coin. They are all pedestrian stuff, but the low mintages might (just might) cause some demand for them in the future. oly |
#27
|
|||
|
|||
quarter
oly wrote:
On Feb 27, 8:53 am, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: Jerry Dennis wrote: On Feb 24, 4:37 pm, ) wrote: i just saw a virgin islands quarter. it is my favorite and actually the only state quarter design i truly like. it has a sparseness and economy of design that works well. uncluttered, unfettered by background noise and really representative of that part of the world, it looks like the where it's from. it really comes across because it doesn't make one think of the other state quarter from that area. using it with that crappy, outdated and useless obverse with the spaghetti hair, it manages to out shine the others by it's simple elegance. ymmv, i would like to hear YOUR fave and why. anyone seen james? Enjoying the discussion that went OT (computers and records), but I suppose we should attempt to stay on topic. Having seen only two DC-P quarters as my entire representation of 2009 quarters, I can't offer anything about Territorials. But I will submit my favorite SQs have bisons, wildlife, and UT (trains). Can't say one is better than the other, but I will say State outlines "bite the big one." Hey, be careful, or you might just inspire me to write a magazine-length article on state/territorial quarters and publish it here. James the Brazen- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I feel that the Maine Quarter is pretty great, especially in view of the coin's relatively small diameter. And yes, I like North Dakota's and Kansas' buffalos a lot. Alaska's bear is worthy too. I've seen all the 2009 quarters in circulation now, except the Northern Marianas coin. They are all pedestrian stuff, but the low mintages might (just might) cause some demand for them in the future. As fussy and careful as I've been at filling my Dansco with them, I harbor no illusions that they will ever be worth more than 25c apiece. But hey, that's the way I collected way stuff back in the nineteen mumblies, and that's the way I still collect stuff today. I forgot to mention, I hauled a magnificent Conder token home from St. Louis. It has THE END OF OPPRESSION (no, I'm not yelling, that's the font on the coin) and a couple of guys celebrating around a big bonfire on one face, and the names of the three enlightened Thomases - Spence, More, and Paine - on the other. James the Old-Fashioned |
#28
|
|||
|
|||
quarter
Bruce Remick wrote:
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... Jerry Dennis wrote: On Feb 24, 4:37 pm, ) wrote: i just saw a virgin islands quarter. it is my favorite and actually the only state quarter design i truly like. it has a sparseness and economy of design that works well. uncluttered, unfettered by background noise and really representative of that part of the world, it looks like the where it's from. it really comes across because it doesn't make one think of the other state quarter from that area. using it with that crappy, outdated and useless obverse with the spaghetti hair, it manages to out shine the others by it's simple elegance. ymmv, i would like to hear YOUR fave and why. anyone seen james? Enjoying the discussion that went OT (computers and records), but I suppose we should attempt to stay on topic. Having seen only two DC-P quarters as my entire representation of 2009 quarters, I can't offer anything about Territorials. But I will submit my favorite SQs have bisons, wildlife, and UT (trains). Can't say one is better than the other, but I will say State outlines "bite the big one." Hey, be careful, or you might just inspire me to write a magazine-length article on state/territorial quarters and publish it here. James the Brazen It'll be fair game, James. [snip] No way I'm going to subject myself to a withering Remick critique! I've seen the effect it has on others, and I certainly don't wish to become like them. James the Unpublished |
#29
|
|||
|
|||
quarter
"Bruce Remick" wrote in message ... It'll be fair game, James. Otherwise, I have no particular favorite state quarter, especially after admiring photos of all those Austrian train and cathedral series issues. What artistry! I doubt our state quarter designs would have improved much even if given a larger surface to work with. Those Austrian series would make one collection I would love to own and display. I see pictures of the Austrian commems in Coin World from time to time and they are beautiful. Our coin designers could learn something from them, they seem to have no conception that a coin is a 3 dimensional sculpture, not a photograph. |
#30
|
|||
|
|||
quarter
"Jerry Dennis" wrote in message ... On Feb 24, 4:37 pm, ) wrote: i just saw a virgin islands quarter. it is my favorite and actually the only state quarter design i truly like. it has a sparseness and economy of design that works well. uncluttered, unfettered by background noise and really representative of that part of the world, it looks like the where it's from. it really comes across because it doesn't make one think of the other state quarter from that area. using it with that crappy, outdated and useless obverse with the spaghetti hair, it manages to out shine the others by it's simple elegance. ymmv, i would like to hear YOUR fave and why. anyone seen james? Enjoying the discussion that went OT (computers and records), but I suppose we should attempt to stay on topic. Having seen only two DC-P quarters as my entire representation of 2009 quarters, I can't offer anything about Territorials. But I will submit my favorite SQs have bisons, wildlife, and UT (trains). Can't say one is better than the other, but I will say State outlines "bite the big one." As a group, on average I find the territorials to be more appealing than the typical SQ designs. That probably says something about the political environments of territories versus states. In a typical state there are too many constituencies and special interests spread all over the place to have a unified, coherent vision of the state. Territorial enclaves tend to be more insular (literally, except for DC) with a smaller number of special interest constituencies to please or avoid ****ing off. On the whole, I suspect that art was allowed to play a bigger role in the process there. Winning state SQ designs were not the result of striving for artistic excellence and inspiring design elements, but finding one that draws the least resistance from all quarters (double entendre intended). In some SQ's, a modicum of esthetic appeal still managed to peek through; but the selection process is heavily biased to squeeze the artistic life out of whichever design survives the political gauntlet run. To quote the great numismatic writer Anonymous, "When you try to please everyone and avoid ****ing off anyone, you end up not pleasing anyone and ****ing off everyone." |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Image of Quarter - Guam - U.S. Mint approves '09 quarter design for Guam, other territories | Arizona Coin Collector | Coins | 3 | December 21st 08 08:14 PM |
FA: 1796 Draped Bust Quarter with comparison to AU-58 1796 quarter | Ira | Coins | 25 | March 5th 08 09:10 PM |
FA: 1889 Canadian Quarter Lowest Bus strike mintage Canada Quarter $1open, NR! | JonL | Coins | 0 | December 11th 07 02:32 AM |
Quarter Distribution from Circulation and Quarter Mintages | Richard L. Hall | Coins | 1 | December 16th 05 03:10 PM |
FA: Barber Quarter keys, Seated Dimes & Quarter, rare Bust Dime | Barry | Coins | 2 | March 16th 04 02:20 AM |