quarter

"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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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using it with that crappy, outdated and useless obverse with the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

Be sure to start at your infancy when your uncle showed you the disappearing
quarter trick, list the entire contents of your Whitman quarter folders,
regale us with anecdotes about all those fake mint error SQ's that you
doctored in your garage and sold on eBay, and of course include a complete
bibliography of all your UseNet posts on SQ's.

You're on your own for Chapter 2 et al.

- mazorj, Editorial Advisor Pro Bono

mazorj wrote:
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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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using it with that crappy, outdated and useless obverse with the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

Be sure to start at your infancy when your uncle showed you the
disappearing quarter trick, list the entire contents of your Whitman
quarter folders, regale us with anecdotes about all those fake mint
error SQ's that you doctored in your garage and sold on eBay, and of
course include a complete bibliography of all your UseNet posts on
SQ's.

I started out as a child, and...no, wait, that's already been done.

James the Nostalgic

In article , "mazorj" wrote:

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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.
good man. even gates deserves payment for his work.
people who write software for a living should be paid. but i never
really worried about you not being legit. i knew you were as "honest" as
as this society allows. and honest about that.

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.
i agree. do only what you must.

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.
those people are my heros. they save really important stuff. stuff other's
think not saveable.

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

it's fun to do, and i like the people here. even the asswipes offer
amusements.
don't like digital tt's. they aren't as good as digitizing yourself.
if you want to send, or post somewhere, wav files, i'll digitize them
and have no need for the physical discs.
just make yourself wav's and only use them as your source.
i have 2 guides for digitizing and they are great.

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don't like digital tt's. they aren't as good as digitizing yourself.
if you want to send, or post somewhere, wav files, i'll digitize them
and have no need for the physical discs.
just make yourself wav's and only use them as your source.
i have 2 guides for digitizing and they are great.

You lost me there. I thought that capturing to .wav files was "digitizing".
Not the only way, just the best one. It's the audio equivalent of taking
photographs in the RAW file format as opposed to lossy .jpg files. But you
do need the physical disk if the source is on vinyl.

Cheap digital turntables only output a processed .mp3 but mine (I think)
will process it as a .wav file or at the least, run it to my computer's RCA
line in, where I can use my preferred capture software to write it as a .wav
file.

In article , "mazorj" wrote:

wrote in message
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don't like digital tt's. they aren't as good as digitizing yourself.
if you want to send, or post somewhere, wav files, i'll digitize them
and have no need for the physical discs.
just make yourself wav's and only use them as your source.
i have 2 guides for digitizing and they are great.

You lost me there. I thought that capturing to .wav files was "digitizing".
Not the only way, just the best one. It's the audio equivalent of taking
photographs in the RAW file format as opposed to lossy .jpg files. But you
do need the physical disk if the source is on vinyl.

Cheap digital turntables only output a processed .mp3 but mine (I think)
will process it as a .wav file or at the least, run it to my computer's RCA
line in, where I can use my preferred capture software to write it as a .wav
file.

a wav file is just a sound file. it may be those are digitized.
i'll have to look the tech stuff up.
winamp post either or and more. know you got me determined to learn tha.
never even thought about it...like i said, i'm no expert.
it starts with a wav file, so maybe your tt just converts, then encodes.
i reccomend cool edit version 1.2. it's succesor was lame, new company,
i have a full set of stuff for vinyl. let me know if you want the guides.

On Feb 27, 9:15*am, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
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 -

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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- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

That Conder sounds nice and funny, I think there is a woodcut of it in
a book on the Eighteenth Century enlightenment that I have been
thumbing through for the last week or two. It is shown at the start
of a chapter on "The End of the Ancient Regime". It is a big
illustrated book dated about 1965 or so.

My big haul of the week was a Lord Nelson's flagship "Foudroyant"
copper relic medal. The photo of it in the auction was very rough
brown and I really thought that I might have bid too much.

When I got the piece, it was actually a glossy chocolate tone with
much iridescence. I was very pleased.

Buying "sight unseen" or photos only, these things don't break in
one's favor all that often.

oly

On Feb 27, 9:49*pm, oly wrote:
On Feb 27, 9:15*am, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:





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- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

That Conder sounds nice and funny, I think there is a woodcut of it in
a book on the Eighteenth Century enlightenment that I have been
thumbing through for the last week or two. *It is shown at the start
of a chapter on "The End of the Ancient Regime". *It is a big
illustrated book dated about 1965 or so.

My big haul of the week was a Lord Nelson's flagship "Foudroyant"
copper relic medal. *The photo of it in the auction was very rough
brown and I really thought that I might have bid too much.

When I got the piece, it was actually a glossy chocolate tone with
much iridescence. *I was very pleased.

Buying "sight unseen" or photos only, these things don't break in
one's favor all that often.

oly- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Of related interest:

http://www.rossallbeach.co.uk/foudroyantnelsonp.htm

oly

On 2/24/2010 4:37 PM, in 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?

My favorite in circulating condition is the Mississippi quarter. I
rather like the Magnolia. For proof varieties, I found the Connecticut
design with the Charter Oak to be very nice. The detail of the branches
is quite nice in the proof. In circulation grade, it is not that
impressive.

With the 56 varieties of special quarters, it was interesting to see how
some designs looked spectacular in proof but lousy in circulation or
great in circulation but lousy in proof.

""Roßert G. Schaffrath"" wrote in message
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On 2/24/2010 4:37 PM, in 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?

My favorite in circulating condition is the Mississippi quarter. I rather
like the Magnolia. For proof varieties, I found the Connecticut design
with the Charter Oak to be very nice. The detail of the branches is quite
nice in the proof. In circulation grade, it is not that impressive.

With the 56 varieties of special quarters, it was interesting to see how
some designs looked spectacular in proof but lousy in circulation or great
in circulation but lousy in proof.

The four quarters in my 2008-S clad proof sets have been looking especially
good lately. ; )