I've got a Polaroid photo booth. It looks like this. It takes pictures like this. I'm moving to Draper, UT. It can't come with. So I'm offering it up here to anyone in the Bay Area who wants it, complete with about 200 shots of film, for $100.
The dimensions are 6'1" tall, 2' wide, and 4' 6" long... reasonably heavy. Must pickup by the end of the month. Sooner the better.
jake [email] said at 12:12 AM 05-31-2007: The more I look at that, the more I want it. Can it support it's own weight on its side, or does it have to be transported standing up?
loren [email] said at 2:18 AM 05-31-2007: Oh, and it's got a black curtain on one side, and a bill collector. I don't think I've ever even tried it but it's all wired up and should work if you wanted to actually charge money for shots, it could pay for itself a few times over. But F that... it's just awesome for parties. I've got a GIANT stack of polaroids from it. I really don't wanna sell it away the more I think about it!
jake [email] said at 2:26 AM 05-31-2007: WTF BILL COLLECTOR??
Even without that if it's moveable it'll pay for itself. Hell, it'd probably pay for itself in some bar in Utah that you could make arrangements with... But I want this very much now. Gotta check with the bank statements...
loren [email] said at 2:10 PM 05-31-2007: Gah. I really want to keep it. But fuck it... as long as you do good, not evil with it, I'll get over it if it goes to a good home. And if you make fat cash off it I expect some benefits. It's a party machine not a bank roll.
rick [email] said at 8:10 PM 05-31-2007: . . . until you get slapped with a legal injunction by a federal court as requested by Bibbly which puts an immediate halt to your acquisition of the said photograph booth
milky [email] said at 7:17 PM 05-31-2007: Loren, if I lived anywhere near you, I would've showed up with cash the day you posted this.
I'm imagining a Jake gallery with this thing. Oof.
I think it'd be neat to keep. One shot a week for the rest of my life. Kids too if I ever have any. And anyone I ever have over.
Wow. I guess shipping it is out of the question. First they discontinue my I-Zone film so I can't use the mini photomirror I got for that, now... this missed opportunity.
I got 10 packs of 600 right now. I could...oh well...
loren [email] said at 10:16 PM 05-31-2007: Why do you say that? Have you been there for any amount of time? Draper is at the South end of the valley of SLC. It's paragliding mecca. If you are into climbing, mountain biking, snowboarding, or pretty much any outdoors sport... it rivals Colorado and is way cheaper. Mostly moving for the flying and a job op.
kiche [email] said at 2:54 PM 06-01-2007: i have heard that while utah has a few cool enclaves, it is mostly scary mormon land, full of such things as 3% beer and crazy polygamists.
loren [email] said at 3:04 PM 06-01-2007: This is such utter horseshit that it makes me want to defend the place that I have no allegiance to. It's like people saying most people in LA are uneducated racist evangelical nutballs. It may be true of a small percentage, but is by no means representative of the majority of the population.
loren [email] said at 5:08 PM 06-01-2007: Just watched the trailer. I feel like that walking around Baton Rouge. But it's all self inflicted reaction to extremists.
That is a scary situation, but it still isn't indicative of everyone.
brianbibbly [email] said at 3:30 PM 06-01-2007: Remember, Kiche lives in New York, a place which considers the entire USA between NY and CA "flyover country."
loren [email] said at 1:59 PM 06-01-2007: State liquor stores have all types of regular beer and spirits, as do bars. There's one about a mile from the new house. And they aren't watered down, there's just a fraction of a percentage less alcohol. The percentage is greatly exaggerated was the main point, on top of the fact that you can get normal beer easily, just not from a grocery store or on tap.
kiche [email] said at 3:06 PM 06-01-2007: the guy who wrote this article is a fucking idiot.
Two Utah myths about beer: Utah grocery stores sell a much weaker beer, and Wyoming beer has more alcohol than other states.
Under Utah law, beer sold in grocery stores or from bar taps cannot exceed 3.2 percent alcohol by weight.
he clearly suffers from some sort of cognitive disconnect. he contradicts the first thing he says in the article in the second.
Almost all macro-brew beers, including Coors, Budweiser and Miller, have very few beers over 4 percent by weight.
i cannot remember the last time i had a coors, a budweiser or a miller. the fact that this guy is toting that you can get watered down versions of these three beers in utah as a defense of the state is... man.
i also heard that you have to buy a membership from a bar to go to it because in utah they are "private clubs" or something.
loren [email] said at 5:01 PM 06-01-2007: In reference to the contradiction, his point is that they aren't MUCH weaker. They are .2% weaker. And when you're talking about 3.4% vs 3.2%, that ain't MUCH.
Just because you don't drink them doesn't mean other people don't. A ridiculous majority of beer drinkers in this country drink those 3 beers. Get off the beer high horse.
And quit pushing the "I heard" stuff. It's not going to mean anything unless you back it up with some fact. And I can say first hand that that is bullshit. I've been to bars in Utah. I've had bottled micro brews there. So what?
Is the law retarded? Yes. Does it really make an impact on your daily drinking habits? Not too damn much. Is it overblown condescending crap that people use to tout Utah as being oppressive and fucked up? Yes.
kiche [email] said at 6:45 PM 06-01-2007: ok, let's stop this bullshit right now.
budweiser is 5%, ditto for coors while mgd & high life clock in at 4.7%.
the guy who wrote that article, was a freaking moron. 3.2% is something like only 2/3rds of regular beer. also, it limits most foreign and microbrews. that's why the guy who wrote this is referencing those crappy beers.
art [email] said at 6:52 PM 06-01-2007: yeah, but you have to compare apples and apples. the 5% in Bud is alcohol by volume (as his article states). the 3.2 is by weight, (also as his article states). when you compare them head to head, the 3.2 beer must be comapred against the 3.9 that Bud is by weight. Or compare the 4.0 by volume that Utah allows to the 4.9 that Bud is
kiche [email] said at 7:36 PM 06-01-2007: i forgot about that statement from his article, the following sentence from the wikipedia entry for budweiser confused me:
It has 5.0 percent alcohol volume, except in Utah, Minnesota and Oklahoma where a 3.2 percent strength is available due to state laws.
this is what i have heard and is always mentioned about beer in utah.
loren [email] said at 2:00 PM 06-01-2007: It's Loren, and yes I'd consider it. I'd have no idea how to go about crating it though... They'd have to come here and pick it up 'cause I have no way of bringing it to a shipping joint.
loren [email] said at 3:02 PM 06-01-2007: Jake, if you can say 100% that you want it, it's yours, you were first. Milky, you'll have to do all the legwork (fingerwork?) on it for estimates and such. I have no idea what the weight of it is and I imagine that will be a factor for estimates...
jake [email] said at 3:29 PM 06-01-2007: If Milk wants it and can make it work I will yield my claim. But If he doesn't want it or it can't be worked out, yes I definitely want it.
brianbibbly [email] said at 3:32 PM 06-01-2007: What if I paid you $500 bucks just to spite Jake and promise that Milky and I will take pictures in it every week throwing up the finger and sending them to Jake?
milky [email] said at 9:57 PM 06-01-2007: I can't figure out the weight of the thing as I have no model number togo by. Still searching. Jake, if wanna have a go at it, you'll probably have better luck moving it that me for damn sure.
I saw a similar one someone was selling for 150 bucks...Polaroid discontinued the film I think.
loren [email] said at 3:09 PM 06-11-2007: Jake, I emailed you a couple times, no reply. What's the scoop. Need to do this ASAP. I'll give you two days or it's going elsewhere.
milky [email] said at 8:43 PM 06-11-2007: I just noticed I misspelled you name in this post. I think I almost wrote 'Lauren' as pronouncing it like 'Laurence' or 'Clarance.' My apologies, man.
jake [email] said at 6:52 PM 06-20-2007: You "heard?"
Isn't Loren one of your best friends? Anyway yes I got sick and didn't call him, and he has every right to be annoyed. I have emailed to apologize too.
But if you want to stir some drama, there you go Dad.
milky [email] said at 11:50 PM 06-20-2007: "out my curtain middle finger for all, jealous of the polaroids on the bcak wall...suckas to the side I know ya hate, when Jake is late..."
