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"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 using it with that crappy, outdated and useless obverse with the spaghetti hair, it manages to out shine the others by it's simple elegance.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 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 |
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mazorj 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 using it with that crappy, outdated and useless obverse with the spaghetti hair, it manages to out shine the others by it's simple elegance.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 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 |
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In article , "mazorj" wrote:
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. 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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wrote in message ... .... 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. |
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In article , "mazorj" wrote:
wrote in message ... .... 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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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