Vinyl Playing Machine || Mail Time



This Mail Time was recorded in November 2021.

Bionic Trousers Media
ATTN: Mail TIme
PO Box 8132 STN Central
Victoria, BC
V8W 3R8
CANADA

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27 thoughts on “Vinyl Playing Machine || Mail Time”

  1. Because Beej noticed the lack of Heavy/Lourd stickers on a heavy box, here's some insider knowledge. Those stickers aren't put on by actually weighing them they're put on at the discretion of the people dealing with it at some point in the package sorting process if someone can be bothered to, and if there's any nearby. Often the attitude is people can figure out it's heavy pretty easily on their own.

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  2. Ooh, I should see if I can get a hold of some of that cloudberry tea, I'm curious… We call them bakeapples in Newfoundland. (I don't know why. They don't taste like apples.)

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  3. I would say that super salty tar licorice isn't the most beginner friendly licorice. They are delicious but maybe just to us crazy people in Scandinavia. In my head they taste like the outside of a Viking ship would taste if you licked it.

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  4. Every time I hear about a Fighting Fantasy book on LRR, I hope it will be the (only) one I had growing up: Robot Commando. It has people who pilot giant robots to wrangle dinosaurs.

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  5. My understanding of panning was that the mineral that you're trying to pan needs to be quite a bit denser than rock. Gold, for example, has a room-temperature density of 19.3g/cm^3, compared to feldspar's 2.56g/cm^3. (Incidentally, since feldspar is a pretty common component of rock, this bears out Doug's assertion in Road Quest that gold is 7-10 times denser than rock.)

    Corundum, however, has a density of 4.02 g/cm^3: Denser than feldspar, but it doesn't seem to be that much denser. So I guess my understanding was incorrect.

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  6. Rubies and sapphires are both forms of the mineral corundum, which also comes in tons of other colors. Corundum has a lot of industrial applications because it's nearly as hard as diamond but far easier to manufacture, so it makes sense that Apple would check it out for very tough lenses. You can get lab-made rubies and sapphires of ludicrous size for surprisingly little money.

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