From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #282 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, August 5 2007 Volume 16 : Number 282 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: postman (u.s.) for a day ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Your 2nd RH record? ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: postman (u.s.) for a day ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: postman (u.s.) for a day [kevin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Your 2nd RH record? [Rex ] Re: postman (u.s.) for a day [Rex ] Re: postman (u.s.) for a day ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: postman (u.s.) for a day ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 ["Sumiko Keay" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 [Rex ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: postman (u.s.) for a day [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: postman (u.s.) for a day [2fs ] Speaking of one's early RH acquisitions... [Rex ] Re: postman (u.s.) for a day [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Leaving Portland. [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:08:20 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: postman (u.s.) for a day Jeff said: >Media rate = will be sent via the QE2 even if you're mailing from Nebraska >to North Dakota. It's cheaper, but it takes a year. Also, the post office >says they have the right to *open* media mail to make sure it's really >"media" and not, I dunno, non-media (whatever that might be). ...and Lauren said: >the "media" rate is something different - i think it's sort of a >second- or third-class sort of thing for books. most times i get a >used book from amazon, it's shipped that way. but i've never used it >myself. We use the Media Mail option almost every week: My girlfriend is way into the Frugal Reader site (as well as freecycle.com and some trading groups on CL), and we are shipping / receiving books, tapes, movies, CDs all the time. You can send recorded material (tapes, DVDs, CDs) as well as books this way. It's considerably cheaper (depending on the weight, 1/3 to 1/2 as much, which can add up when sending multiples; also, the weightier, the more the savings, I believe...but we mostly send out only 1 or 2 at a time)...but it does take a bit longer than 1st Class / Priority Mail (but more like 6-9 days for us out of a MMA (Maj. Met. Area), and, at times, as quick as 2-3 days; I'd say it almost always is within a week; the USPS says it can be as long as 21 days, but we've never had it be anywhere near that long -- perhaps it might take that long from, say, Damp Trees, OR, to Wet Lobsters, ME). It can't be done from the handy-dandy automated machine in the P.O. lobby (which, for other mailing needs I HIGHLY recommend; fast and easy -- and usually less of a line)...but you CAN run off postage on a computer (or use the right amount of stamps if you know the weight and the rate), mark the package (does not have to be a flat envelope) "MEDIA MAIL," and put it right in a mailbox if it's like 1 book or maybe 2 DVDs / CDs (depends on the weight). The "can be opened" provision is to potentially check for non-allowed items being shipped at the lower rate...but we've never gotten (among dozens of items) a previously opened package (the P.O. has to tag / note it if they have opened and inspected it). Technically, you are not supposed to even include a note (or invoice / receipt) with the media, but...we've not seen any problems with that either (going out or coming in); some of our correspondents have even included bookmarks, cards, and other little gifts without complications. ...Anyway -- it's much faster than Parcel Post and noticably cheaper than 1st Class. ...and thus concludes my Obsessively Factual and On-Topic, Yet Just Plain Obsessive Post for the month (or, with any luck, even longer). Michael "...and, no, I have never written any Wiki posts; why do you ask?" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:31:24 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Your 2nd RH record? First RH record (as previously recounted; and I'm sure you all noted it in yr head-catalog of all things Sweeney-related) was "Fegmania!" -- so I'd guess that second would have been "Element of Light," as I was reeled in enough to eagerly look forward to the next chronological release. And, not long after that, I fondly recall finding an import copy of "IODOT" at Coconuts / Bananas / Strawberries (I swear, the same record store on Diversey, under the El, had at least 2 of those names (and maybe some others) during its now-expired lifetime) and playing it over and over, relishing both the sound / feel of it and the secret-society-ish-ness of having the record priced with a sticker listing pounds and pence... ...These were all old-fashioned 12-in. elpees...as were the rest for me, up until (I think) "Perspex" or "Respect." Michael "I still miss Wax Trax on Lincoln Ave." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 03:15:45 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: postman (u.s.) for a day craigie* says: > I thought you'd been using size-based pricing for a while longer than us > anyhow? that's probably a combination of "yes" and a "no"...letters and other first-class mail have been done by weight for as long as i've been mailing things - x cents for the first ounce and y cents for each additional ounce (with y being about 2/3 of x) until you hit some magic weight where the rate goes flat. the size really has not mattered so much - you could send an 8-1/2" x 11" envelope or a regular letter or a CD in a bubble mailer. letter rate fit the assorted types of mail that might come out of a law office. any extremes in size or shape should include a trip to the post for an expert opinion. so...things that fit in a bubble-wrap envelope used to go by this "letter" schedule, but now they don't. they have their own schedule. then there are a bunch of other schedules for fatter or bigger packages and weird shapes like tubes and different mailing options such as "express mail" for faster delivery or the "media mail" option for (not that they advertise it this way) slower delivery - these seem based on the supposed truism of "time = money". and jeff 2fs - sometimes i forget that people don't have a pile of strangely-denominated stamps. i'm fond of stamps and buy too many of them because they run so pretty. i'm still using up $0.33 (there were some lovely bats, old planes, and underwater sea-creatures) and $0.37 stamps. but as a general rule, it can't hurt to have a giant sheet of 2 or 3 cent stamps (there's probably an argument that an assortment of prime-number-denominated stamps will get you far.) and of course a kitchen scale (good when making your own photographic developer as well) to lower the chances of having to use any interpersonal skills that might be required in an encounter with an actual human. oh my, this post is so incredibly boring. it must be a cry for help. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 08:25:44 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: postman (u.s.) for a day >oh my, this post is so incredibly boring. it must be a cry for help. > after reading "born on a blue day" i'm starting to evaluate a lot of people around me in terms of being what my daughter the nurse calls "high-function autism" and you're coming in right on the beam... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 23:54:42 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 Brian Huddell wrote: > > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:11:19 -0500 > From: "Brian Huddell" > Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 > >> > there's no darkness in willow >> >> Hee. Hahaha. HAHAHAH! Thanks Lauren, that was refreshing! > > Shoulda put a spoiler alert over that... Oh, give me a break. At least two people made essentially the same comment. Lauren, I formally apologize if I spoiled anything for you. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 11:09:10 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Your 2nd RH record? On 8/3/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > And, not long after that, I fondly recall finding an import copy of "IODOT" > at Coconuts / Bananas / Strawberries (I swear, the same record store on > Diversey, under the El, had at least 2 of those names (and maybe some > others) during its now-expired lifetime) and playing it over and over, > relishing both the sound / feel of it and the secret-society-ish-ness of > having the record priced with a sticker listing pounds and pence... To this day I never remove even the most banal foreign stickerage from a jewel case, whereas I rigorously discard all domestic promotional stupidity. In some ways, we never grow up. 'Course, when was the last time I actually bought a record, foreign or otherwise? Prolly the live RH/V3 EP... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 11:12:58 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: postman (u.s.) for a day On 8/4/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: i'm still using up $0.33 (there were > some lovely bats, old planes, and underwater sea-creatures) ...as opposed to the other kind? Just kidding, and proving that I read the whole non-boring post , and, hey, relishing my finally-established wireless Maccery. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:44:34 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: postman (u.s.) for a day kevin says: > after reading "born on a blue day" i'm starting to evaluate a lot of people around me in terms of being what my daughter the nurse calls "high-function autism" and you're coming in right on the beam... /* wonders what's with the flattery */ xo np: Tori Amos - Leather [Meter Sessions Amsterdam 14mar92] p.s. re: the "now playing": i use this firefox plugin called foxy tunes that's pretty cool. usually i'm not impressed with the upgrades (it's generally just bells and whistles that i tend to find more annoying than useful), but i like this one: yesterday's upgrade adds a little icon below the e-mail composition window in gmail (and presumably other web-based e-mail) that you click on to add the current Winamp (or whatever) song to your e-mail signature - i.e. the song name is inserted electronically instead of your having to type ("keyboard") it in. link for foxy tunes: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/219 - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:57:07 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 Jeanne says: > Lauren, I formally apologize if I spoiled anything for you. no need to apologize... if i'd want to play it completely safe, i'd be best off not making buffy threads. i've actually been surprised by how little i know about the show's plotline - i had a few friends who followed it religiously and it seems i was good at ignoring them (i guess it's one of my special skills.) btw, i appreciate all you buffy fegs being all hush about season 3. i had no idea the central plotline would be angel's inability to find a shirt. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:59:31 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: postman (u.s.) for a day Rex says: > On 8/4/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > i'm still using up $0.33 (there were > > some lovely bats, old planes, and underwater sea-creatures) > > ...as opposed to the other kind? yes, that was silly. all bats are lovely. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:19:42 -0500 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 Well, I'm sure I can speak for all in saying that we didn't want to spoil the HSQ. Sumi On 8/4/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > Jeanne says: > > Lauren, I formally apologize if I spoiled anything for you. > > no need to apologize... > > if i'd want to play it completely safe, i'd be best off not making > buffy threads. i've actually been surprised by how little i know > about the show's plotline - i had a few friends who followed it > religiously and it seems i was good at ignoring them (i guess it's one > of my special skills.) > > btw, i appreciate all you buffy fegs being all hush about season 3. i > had no idea the central plotline would be angel's inability to find a > shirt. > > xo > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:36:23 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 On 8/4/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: need to apologize... > > if i'd want to play it completely safe, i'd be best off not making > buffy threads. i've actually been surprised by how little i know > about the show's plotline - i had a few friends who followed it > religiously and it seems i was good at ignoring them (i guess it's one > of my special skills.) Me, too, but the specific plot development that everybody's been spoiling was *all* any of my Buffyhead friends could talk about for months. I'm much happier with endless Buffy discussion these days, compartmentalized to a feggy topic, than I was when it was actually happening... I got a little annoyed with my friends who would insert Buffy characters into any other narrative that was unfolding... you know, we'd be watching some other movie, and the protagonist would make some kind of dumb choice, and it got to the point where I could sense it coming-- "You know, if that was BUFFY, she would just..." Hey, the Sopranos is over, too, now, huh? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:54:35 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 - -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on 4. August 2007 14:57:07 -0400 regarding Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277: > btw, i appreciate all you buffy fegs being all hush about season 3. i > had no idea the central plotline would be angel's inability to find a > shirt. Funny! So who's your pick? Angel or Spike? You know you have to choose one or the other, right? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:15:12 -0500 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 Sebastian, You're getting ahead! Sumi On 8/4/07, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on > 4. August 2007 14:57:07 -0400 regarding Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277: > > > btw, i appreciate all you buffy fegs being all hush about season 3. i > > had no idea the central plotline would be angel's inability to find a > > shirt. > > Funny! So who's your pick? Angel or Spike? You know you have to choose one > or the other, right? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 17:11:53 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 Sebastian Hagedorn says: > Funny! So who's your pick? Angel or Spike? You know you have to choose one > or the other, right? they are both endearing and anyway vampires seem a bit perverse so can't we all just get along? xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 11:57:59 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 > >> > there's no darkness in willow > >> > >> Hee. Hahaha. HAHAHAH! Thanks Lauren, that was refreshing! > > > > Shoulda put a spoiler alert over that... > > Oh, give me a break. At least two people made essentially the same > comment. Lauren, I formally apologize if I spoiled anything for you. Yikes! My tone was way off. That was not meant as a scold at all! Not slightly! But now I don't see how I possibly expected you to know that. It was just me chiming in knowingly, obviously in an awkward way. I think Lauren's Buffy journey is going to be just fine! I guess I forgot that there's a whole universe around me that takes things like spoiler alerts seriously. I apologize for clumsily appearing to call you out, Jeanne. +brian ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:33:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: postman (u.s.) for a day Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > Rex says: > > On 8/4/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > i'm still using up $0.33 (there were > > > some lovely bats, old planes, and underwater sea-creatures) > > > > ...as opposed to the other kind? > > yes, that was silly. all bats are lovely. And all planes are old.... "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 17:38:22 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: postman (u.s.) for a day On 8/4/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Rex says: > > > On 8/4/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > i'm still using up $0.33 (there were > > > > some lovely bats, old planes, and underwater sea-creatures) > > > > > > ...as opposed to the other kind? > > > > yes, that was silly. all bats are lovely. > > And all planes are old.... And all cats are grey. ("Mary where's my hairspray?") - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:18:23 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Speaking of one's early RH acquisitions... ...it's just occurred to me that it's been ages since I heard the saxful version of "The Man Who Invented Himself", ghastly, mellow, or otherwise. It was there the first couple hundred times I listened to that album, but to all intents and purposes it doesn't exist any more, la la la la la la. Anybody got a lead on that one? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 19:25:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #277 On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > btw, i appreciate all you buffy fegs being all hush about season 3. i > had no idea the central plotline would be angel's inability to find a > shirt. Enjoy it while it lasts, 'cause NOTHING of the sort ever happens again with another male character. Nope. Never. Meanwhile, the big mystery in early season 3 is naked Angel's ability to pick up an unexplained pair of pants. There's been much discussion about his possible mystical pants-summoning abilities. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 18:03:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: postman (u.s.) for a day On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Michael Sweeney wrote: > It can't be done from the handy-dandy automated machine in the P.O. lobby > (which, for other mailing needs I HIGHLY recommend; fast and easy -- and > usually less of a line)...but you CAN run off postage on a computer (or use > the right amount of stamps if you know the weight and the rate), mark the > package (does not have to be a flat envelope) "MEDIA MAIL," and put it right > in a mailbox if it's like 1 book or maybe 2 DVDs / CDs (depends on the > weight). I love those machines but: 1) I wish there were more of them in more post offices 2) I wish you could do more on them. Really--nobody who just wants to mail a letter or buy stamps should ever have to stand in line again. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 22:40:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Leaving Portland. On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > I didn't know you could still ship by train..? Amtrak takes freight! And it's a very reasonable cost compared to other methods (primarily, I would assume, because it is station-to-station rather than door-to-door). I was very pleased to find this and it has decreased the cost of my move in both time and money. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin _______________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #282 ********************************