How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
Boost Pope
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I happened to be searching through some old posts, and came across this from 2010:
When you find it, see if they have a copy of Peter Brock's book on Cobra Daytona Coupes for less than a $1000 (I'm serious).
EDIT:
Do you realize it's about to be reprinted in hardcover under a slightly different title?
I feel that a follow-up is justified:
Shortly after posting that, I managed to obtain a copy of the original via Inter-Library Loan, from a library in Berkeley, CA. (Yes, ILL still exists.) I spent the better part of a week's worth of evenings sitting on the sofa, watching Battlestar Galactica, with my flatbed scanner in my lap, my old laptop to my right and a rum & coke to my left, scanning the entire thing into .TGA files, which I then hand-cropped and compiled into a PDF. I printed a copy of the PDF (thank you, duplex printer at work) and took it to Kinkos to have it spiral-bound as a gift to the person who had recommended it to me, who had also been unable to find a copy for himself.
I have decided to make that PDF publicly available, because **** Variant Press right in the goat-hole. Here's the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vhsqefevso...odore.pdf?dl=0
I did, in fact, purchase a hard-bound of the second edition for $21 shortly after its release. And it's a good thing, because a new copy, today, sells for $2,799.99 (plus $3.99 shipping.)
Yup. Two thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents, for a book published seven years ago. That's nearly a whole months' rent for my previous apartment on the upper-east side.
I ain't shitting you:
This book is consistently proving to be even weirder than the history of Commodore itself.
EDIT:
Do you realize it's about to be reprinted in hardcover under a slightly different title?
I feel that a follow-up is justified:
Shortly after posting that, I managed to obtain a copy of the original via Inter-Library Loan, from a library in Berkeley, CA. (Yes, ILL still exists.) I spent the better part of a week's worth of evenings sitting on the sofa, watching Battlestar Galactica, with my flatbed scanner in my lap, my old laptop to my right and a rum & coke to my left, scanning the entire thing into .TGA files, which I then hand-cropped and compiled into a PDF. I printed a copy of the PDF (thank you, duplex printer at work) and took it to Kinkos to have it spiral-bound as a gift to the person who had recommended it to me, who had also been unable to find a copy for himself.
I have decided to make that PDF publicly available, because **** Variant Press right in the goat-hole. Here's the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vhsqefevso...odore.pdf?dl=0
I did, in fact, purchase a hard-bound of the second edition for $21 shortly after its release. And it's a good thing, because a new copy, today, sells for $2,799.99 (plus $3.99 shipping.)
Yup. Two thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents, for a book published seven years ago. That's nearly a whole months' rent for my previous apartment on the upper-east side.
I ain't shitting you:
This book is consistently proving to be even weirder than the history of Commodore itself.
Like a trip down memory lane.
https://ubidestates.hibid.com/catalo...=catalog&q=143
Acoustic coupler
Trash-80 stuff
https://ubidestates.hibid.com/catalo...=catalog&q=143
Acoustic coupler
Trash-80 stuff
Edit: And Congrats! Even though she gets the new car and I get the old car, married life is dandy.