Re: Vending Machines

[Hactar]

In article <0bSdnTtcjIVoVQvM...@giganews.com>,
Tara <jarv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I have always had a special fascination for nonfood or at least non Coke
> or snack food vending machines. Tourist attractions used to, and maybe
> still do, have film, disposable camera, and battery vending machines. My
> library has book vending machines. I love the little OTC medicine
> vending machines. I am traumatized because my husband's elementary
> school had a pencil vending machine and I never heard of them until
> recently. I seem to remember a DVD vending machine at the airport. I
> wish I could have experienced the Automat. I love the laundry supply
> vending machines at laundromats. I have read of fresh fruit vending
> machines. I was so mesmerized by an icecream vending machine that I
> didn't buy any. Some beaches have sunscreen vending machines. I love
> the nasty coffee vending machines that drop a crooked paper cup down
> behind a sliding door. There was one at work that also had chicken
> noodle soup. I don't want to hear about any Japanese porn vending
> machines.

My college library has one for things you might get at the school
bookstore -- pads of paper, pens, pencils, calculators, batteries, etc.
You know, anything except actual _books_. And clothing.

I read about a sushi vending machine. It's in California, in some
expensive grocery store.

> How did the lighted cigarette vending machine work? And why can't we
> have whiskey vending machines anymore?

I'm guessing "can't verify purchaser's age". I think that was one of the
main reasons cigarette vending machines died.

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[Tara]

On Fri, 17 May 2013 21:18:57 -0400, Hactar wrote:


> My college library has one for things you might get at the school
> bookstore -- pads of paper, pens, pencils, calculators, batteries, etc.
> You know, anything except actual _books_. And clothing.

I've never seen such a thing! Here is one with bubble sheets and Sharpie
markers. I am so geeked out.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii310/collegelibrary/vending.jpg

Tara

[Tim Wright]

<http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/07/08/pa-stores-unveil-wine-vending-machines/>
http://tinyurl.com/2bg356h

<http://www.buzzfeed.com/arielknutson/vending-machines-you-wont-believe-exist>
http://tinyurl.com/a86fme8

--
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell
the color nine.
Tim W

[Tara]

THIS ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE YOU GUYS!!

How long have school supply vending machines been around and why hasn't
someone told me about them?

http://tinyurl.com/cy4ok8q

https://www.google.com/search?q=school+supply+vending
+machine&client=ubuntu&hs=9ws&channel=fs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=muaWUcOlLZHS9AS4kYHwDA&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1301&bih=678#imgrc=_

Tara

[Hactar]

In article <x9udnbEnjZVqeAvM...@giganews.com>,

Yeah, like that, but with the contents less lit (I think, it's reasonably
bright in there) and on less of a grid.

[Rick B.]

Tara <jarv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
news:x9udnbEnjZVqeAvM...@giganews.com:

I guess things have changed since I were a college stoodent...who would need
to buy test forms, especially on such short notice as to have to resort to a
vending machine?

[Dover Beach]

Tara <jarv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
news:x9udnbAnjZU_dgvM...@giganews.com:

We had them at UNC-Chapel Hill in the early '80s. That's the first time
I remember seeing them.

[Hactar]

In article <XnsA1C447CC9...@130.133.4.11>,

Need? Nobody, if they all read the syllabus and planned ahead. But
there's always a few procrastinators who are willing to pay exorbitant
prices.

[Rick B.]

ebenZ...@verizon.net (Hactar) wrote in news:2vbk6a-...@pc.home:

> In article <XnsA1C447CC9...@130.133.4.11>,
> Rick B. <deep...@sprynet.com.aq> wrote:
>> Tara <jarv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
>> news:x9udnbEnjZVqeAvM...@giganews.com:
>>
>> > On Fri, 17 May 2013 21:18:57 -0400, Hactar wrote:
>> >
>> >> My college library has one for things you might get at the school
>> >> bookstore -- pads of paper, pens, pencils, calculators, batteries,
>> >> etc. You know, anything except actual _books_. And clothing.
>> >
>> > I've never seen such a thing! Here is one with bubble sheets and
>> > Sharpie markers. I am so geeked out.
>> >
>> > http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii310/collegelibrary/vending.jpg
>>
>> I guess things have changed since I were a college stoodent...who would
>> need to buy test forms, especially on such short notice as to have to
>> resort to a vending machine?
>
> Need? Nobody, if they all read the syllabus and planned ahead. But
> there's always a few procrastinators who are willing to pay exorbitant
> prices.
>

I don't think I ever had a course that required turning in a pre-printed
answer form. Is this a post-1980 thing? Or maybe a huge lecture classes at
really large schools thing?

[Tara]

On Sat, 18 May 2013 14:32:36 +0000, Rick B. wrote:

> I don't think I ever had a course that required turning in a pre-printed
> answer form. Is this a post-1980 thing? Or maybe a huge lecture classes
> at really large schools thing?

I remember turning in blue books for final exams in the early nineties.
I don't think I ever had to buy or use bubble answer sheets in college.

Tara

[Lesmond]

On Fri, 17 May 2013 21:18:57 -0400, Hactar wrote:

I still see cigarette machines occasionally.

--
If there's a nuclear winter, at least it'll snow.

[Hactar]

In article <yrfzbaqirevmbaar...@192.168.0.6>,

In bars, where the patrons are (presumably) old enough?

[Hactar]

In article <IKOdnfJgXvw8CgrM...@giganews.com>,

In large (auditorium) classes you do, because the professor can't be
bothered^W^Wrecruit enough TAs to grade written answers.

[D.F. Manno]

Hactar <ebenZ...@verizon.net> wrote:
> In article <XnsA1C447CC9...@130.133.4.11>,
> Rick B. <deep...@sprynet.com.aq> wrote:
>> Tara <jarv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
>> news:x9udnbEnjZVqeAvM...@giganews.com:
>>
>>> On Fri, 17 May 2013 21:18:57 -0400, Hactar wrote:
>>>
>>>> My college library has one for things you might get at the school
>>>> bookstore -- pads of paper, pens, pencils, calculators, batteries, etc.
>>>> You know, anything except actual _books_. And clothing.
>>>
>>> I've never seen such a thing! Here is one with bubble sheets and Sharpie
>>> markers. I am so geeked out.
>>>
>>> http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii310/collegelibrary/vending.jpg
>>
>> I guess things have changed since I were a college stoodent...who would need
>> to buy test forms, especially on such short notice as to have to resort to a
>> vending machine?
>
> Need? Nobody, if they all read the syllabus and planned ahead. But
> there's always a few procrastinators who are willing to pay exorbitant
> prices.

But isn't it the _teacher's_ job to provide the bubble sheets?
--
D.F. Manno

[S. Checker]

In alt.fan.cecil-adams Hactar <ebenZ...@verizon.net> wrote:

> I'm guessing "can't verify purchaser's age". I think that was one of the
> main reasons cigarette vending machines died.

I remember a story where there are three guys in a bar, one bets the
other that he can guess what brand of cigarettes he is going to buy
from the vending machine. The real reason for the bet is so that the
two other men can talk privately while the patsy tries to figure out
what the most devilishly tricky brand to buy would be - but when he
comes back the protaganist guesses right anyway because hey, it's 50
bucks.
--
Do not question too much, lest your head fall off.
-- The Upanishads

[Hactar]

In article <736389222390709563.1...@news.albasani.net>,

Maybe the school ought to buy them in bulk and distribute the quantity
needed to the students who need them, and tack on an extra 25 cents or
whatever to that course. I don't see how the teacher should be forced to
buy a few hundred Scantron sheets out of his/her pocket. I mean buy that
logic you'd have the teacher buying pencils, pens, notebooks, etc.

[D.F. Manno]

In article <m5op6a-...@pc.home>, ebenZ...@verizon.net (Hactar)
wrote:

> D.F. Manno <dfm...@mail.com> wrote:
> > Hactar <ebenZ...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > > Rick B. <deep...@sprynet.com.aq> wrote:

> > >> Tara <jarv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I've never seen such a thing! Here is one with bubble
> > >>> sheets and Sharpie markers. I am so geeked out.
> > >>>
> > >>> http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii310/collegelibrary/vending.jpg
> > >>
> > >> I guess things have changed since I were a college
> > >> stoodent...who would need to buy test forms, especially on
> > >> such short notice as to have to resort to a vending machine?
> > >
> > > Need? Nobody, if they all read the syllabus and planned
> > > ahead. But there's always a few procrastinators who are
> > > willing to pay exorbitant prices.
> >
> > But isn't it the _teacher's_ job to provide the bubble sheets?
>
> Maybe the school ought to buy them in bulk and distribute the
> quantity needed to the students who need them, and tack on an
> extra 25 cents or whatever to that course. I don't see how the
> teacher should be forced to buy a few hundred Scantron sheets
> out of his/her pocket. I mean buy that logic you'd have the
> teacher buying pencils, pens, notebooks, etc.

The forms should be provided by the school. It's part of the expense of
offering the course.

Being able to grade a test by scanning is a convenience to the teacher
and/or school, not the student.

--
D.F. Manno | dfm...@mail.com
GOP delenda est!

[David J. Martin]

At bulk the forms cost about a nickel each. Bookstores around here sell
them for $0.45 each. As department budgets got stretched thin, many
departments stopped supplying forms.

David

[Snidely]

D.F. Manno was thinking very hard :

The schools should also provided the text books too. Funny, the last
time I had that happen was in high school. Except for lit books (_A
Separate Peace_, for instance).


Piece College, a 2-year Community College in SoCal, sells the mark
sense sheets in the school bookstore (on an end cap by the accounting
books, IIRC). The blue books in 2 or 3 sizes are there also. A small
number of the vending machines have small packs of these items.

(Half my classes had xeroxed test questions, and room on the back if
you couldn't fit the tree diagrams in the space under the question.)

/dps

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[Hactar]

In article <l0339t$rqp$1...@dont-email.me>,
Jesper Lauridsen <uselastname...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-07-23, jeff_wisnia <jwisnia1...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Jesper Lauridsen wrote:

> >> On 2013-05-18, Hactar <ebenZ...@verizon.net> wrote:
> >>> In article <0bSdnTtcjIVoVQvM...@giganews.com>,
> >>> Tara <jarv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> How did the lighted cigarette vending machine work? And why can't we
> >>>> have whiskey vending machines anymore?
> >>>

> >>> I'm guessing "can't verify purchaser's age". I think that was one of the
> >>> main reasons cigarette vending machines died.
> >>

> >> They're all over the place in Germany:
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/citoyen_du_monde_inc/8079734324/lightbox/
> >
> > Did you realize that the link you shared would let us look at a
> > seemingly endless series of photos of what appear to all be very nice
> > and good looking people having a great time in lots of different venues?
>
> I linked directly to an image. What you choose to do is your responsibility.
>
> Here is a new link that should be Jeff-proof: http://i.imgur.com/p9ipsIY.jpg

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