Margy is famous!

Paul Sengupta wrote:

Doesn't help that IT services managed to lose all my old e-mails
and I haven't got anyone's e-mail address any more (apart from you
guys!)...

Well, if you make it over, my offer to shoot the Hudson corridor is still good.
Depending on how I feel, I may offer to fly you out to Jay's. *I* can't afford
to stay there, but I have a friend who lives half and hour flight north of
there, so it might be doable.

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having too much
could prove embarassing, but having too little is always fatal.

Depending on how I feel, I may offer to fly you out to Jay's. *I* can't
afford
to stay there, but I have a friend who lives half and hour flight north of
there, so it might be doable.

George, George, George. Our suites start at just $59.95 per night -- and
your Usenet Discount knocks that down another 20%. Thus, for just $47.95
per night, you get a 300 square foot suite, with a full kitchen, breakfast
bar, queen sized bed, and a delivered-to-your-suite breakfast basket in the
morning -- including the daily newspaper!

Or, you can pay 100% more, at $99.95, and stay at a Holiday Inn Express in a
room 50% smaller, with no kitchen, and no delivered breakfast. (I guess
that's what makes the people who stay there so "smart", eh?)

True, for $47.95 you won't enjoy an aviation theme suite, and you won't get
a jacuzzi hot tub -- but that suite (our smallest) is actually *bigger* than
the local Sheraton's BIGGEST suite. :-)

We have the most affordable luxury suites, anywhere -- period.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Wow! That's a good deal!

What's the circ at your local paper? I might have to start pitching their
mailroom people! This way I can justify a trip out...

Heck - if I can close something, I might even splurge for a Jacuzzi!

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:N8Jjb.799678$uu5.140928@sccrnsc04:

George, George, George. Our suites start at just $59.95 per night --
and your Usenet Discount knocks that down another 20%. Thus, for just
$47.95 per night, you get a 300 square foot suite, with a full kitchen,
breakfast bar, queen sized bed, and a delivered-to-your-suite breakfast
basket in the morning -- including the daily newspaper!

Or, you can pay 100% more, at $99.95, and stay at a Holiday Inn Express
in a room 50% smaller, with no kitchen, and no delivered breakfast.
(I guess that's what makes the people who stay there so "smart", eh?)

True, for $47.95 you won't enjoy an aviation theme suite, and you won't
get a jacuzzi hot tub -- but that suite (our smallest) is actually
*bigger* than the local Sheraton's BIGGEST suite. :-)

We have the most affordable luxury suites, anywhere -- period.

Wow! That's a good deal!

Thanks. We're holding the prices until all the suites are done -- at least
two years away...

What's the circ at your local paper? I might have to start pitching their
mailroom people! This way I can justify a trip out...

The Press-Citizen has something close to 30,000. There are actually three
"local" papers -- the Press-Citizen (Gannett owned), the Gazette (out of
Cedar Rapids, family-owned), and the Daily Iowan (owned by the University).
Combined they probably have a circ of close to 70,000 -- in a city of
65,000!

This is a newspaper town, for sure. It helps that everyone (and I mean
EVERYONE) has a college degree. (One of my desk clerks speaks 14
languages...)

Heck - if I can close something, I might even splurge for a Jacuzzi!

What do you pitch to the mailroom folks? I worked in Circulation and
Distribution for 22 years -- maybe I can steer you in the right direction?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck ) wrote:

It helps that everyone (and I mean
EVERYONE) has a college degree. (One of my desk clerks speaks 14
languages...)

This just goes to show how tough the current job market is.


--
Peter












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("Peter R." wrote)
It helps that everyone (and I mean
EVERYONE) has a college degree. (One of my desk clerks speaks 14
languages...)

This just goes to show how tough the current job market is.

Nope. It's a college town thing. My sister has been in Boulder Colorado for
over 30 years. She says people take college courses, there at CU, the way
people in other cities go to the local health club or gym. Academic workout?
Brain Buff?

Even during the roaring 90's, she would often tell us about the guy bagging
her groceries, with a PhD in something obscure, or her mailman, the rocket
scientist.

--
Montblack

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:7hSjb.157329$%h1.154594@sccrnsc02:

Wow! That's a good deal!

Thanks. We're holding the prices until all the suites are done -- at
least two years away...

OK, then I have some time!


What's the circ at your local paper? I might have to start pitching
their mailroom people! This way I can justify a trip out...

The Press-Citizen has something close to 30,000. There are actually
three "local" papers -- the Press-Citizen (Gannett owned), the Gazette
(out of Cedar Rapids, family-owned), and the Daily Iowan (owned by the
University). Combined they probably have a circ of close to 70,000 --
in a city of 65,000!

This is a newspaper town, for sure. It helps that everyone (and I mean
EVERYONE) has a college degree. (One of my desk clerks speaks 14
languages...)


Wow! That's amazing! Looks like I'll DEFINITELY have to drop by!


What do you pitch to the mailroom folks? I worked in Circulation and
Distribution for 22 years -- maybe I can steer you in the right
direction?

I saw you mention in a previous post that you had a DC or something in a
"previous life"...

If you've heard of a product called NEWSCOM, that's our "bread and
butter"... It's an Inserter control system for SLS's, 72's and 99's.
Besides NEWSCOM, we also do Stacker control upgrades and Inkjet systems
for labelling on bottomwraps and on TMCs. We're also going to be
producing a Bundle Distribution System next year...

Basically, we do software and controls from the Pressroom Wall to the
Loading Bay Window...

I probably shouldn't get too heavy into the pitch in the newsgroup. If
you want more details, or you can help me out at all, EMail me at my name
at miracomcomputer.com... (Hopefully that's obscure enough to avoid the
spam robots! )

Thanks!!

Judah

If you've heard of a product called NEWSCOM, that's our "bread and
butter"... It's an Inserter control system for SLS's, 72's and 99's.
Besides NEWSCOM, we also do Stacker control upgrades and Inkjet systems
for labelling on bottomwraps and on TMCs. We're also going to be
producing a Bundle Distribution System next year...

Basically, we do software and controls from the Pressroom Wall to the
Loading Bay Window...

Ow, ow, ow! Stop it -- you're hurting my head!

I haven't heard those words in close to 18 months -- nor have I used any
"newspaper brain cells". (Perhaps they've regenerated, after being damaged
for 22 years?

So YOU'RE the guy we used to curse in the middle of the night, eh? God, I
can't tell you how many times I had a D.C. full of contract drivers, waiting
for the papers that were late because of some "mailroom glitch"...

There's nothing like trying to placate a couple of dozen ****ed off guys,
who are NOT being paid extra to wait for their newspapers. When the Cedar
Rapids Gazette (our primary customer) went "live" with their new mailroom
(and press) systems a couple of years ago, this scene was played out every
night, for months...

We used to sit around sticking pins in little "Judah" dolls -- did you
experience any unexplained pains during this time? :-)

Anyway, do you do any work with Lee Enterprise? They own something close to
30 (maybe more, now?) papers throughout the Midwest. I worked for (and
with) them for 12 years, too...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

One of my desk clerks speaks 14 languages...

A couple fellows back home were directing traffic at the Museum of Appalachia's
entrance when a guy drove up and asked, "Sprechen sie Deutsch?"

Gene and Slim just stared at him. So the visitor tried, "Parlez vous Francais?"

Still no response. So he said, "Parlare Italiano?"

Nothing. So the fellow gave it one last effort with, "Habla Espanol?"

Zip. So, throwing his hands over his head in disgust, the visitor angrily sped away.

"Y'know, maybe we oughta learn a foreign language," said Gene.

"Why?" asked Slim. "That feller knew four of 'em, and it didn't do him
no good."

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having too much
could prove embarassing, but having too little is always fatal.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
...
[...]
"Why?" asked Slim. "That feller knew four of 'em, and it didn't do him
no good."

Of course, that story was obviously translated from whatever the folks
living in the Appalachian "hollers" speak. I don't know what it is, but it
isn't English.