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Mysterious responder dude (or dudette) - You have given me great enjoyment and amusement with your witty responses. Who are you?
Just a humble Bookstore hireling who would rather hang out at the keyboard than work.(Posted 1/23/2009)
I was reading your responses from your site and came across this statement in one of the responses: "We carry these dolls for the same reason we carry Stephanie Meyer’s romance books involving vampires and werewolves, who surely would not be invited to attend here or a number of other universities. Some people choose these particular kinds of fantasies while others don’t." What in the world are you talking about that Stephenie (It's 3 e's by the way, no a) wouldn't be "invited to attend"? She DID attend there, she GRADUATED from there. You sound highly ridiculous when you make these condescending comments, like your precious Mormon bookstore is really too good, but you carry the books anyway. Hmmm, maybe because they have incredible sales and even your halo-polishing Mormon students read the occassional vampire tale?
Drat. We hate it when we make mistakes and apologize for changing that middle e into an a in Stephenie. Good catch. We did not mean that Stephenie would not be invited here (she has been invited, and she came) but that vampires and werewolves wouldn’t make the cut. The Meyer books and the TY Girlz dolls both appeal to a part of our customer base, so we carry them even though neither is represented in our studentbody. You said it best: “your halo-polishing Mormon students read the occasional vampire tale,” and those same halo-polishers also have a reason to buy the occasional TY Girlz doll.(Posted 1/23/2009)
I recently attended a conference for professors of philosophy hosted by BYU. I noticed a Staff favorites area in the bookstore where a children's book about a pigeon had been recommended by Jacobs. I believe he said the book had been treated by Lacan on the problem of otherness. Can you tell me the title or ISBN of that book.
We have exhausted our considerable resources pursuing this important matter, but alas—we come up empty. Our result is an appropriate metaphor for the pigeon book itself, but we apologize for not being able to answer your question.(Posted 1/23/2009)
My freinds and I noticed a book on the Staff Picks shelves that had been recommended by Jim Jacobs. It was Pigeon Wants a Puppy. He referred to a Pigeon "canon" and we just wanted to know what other Pigeon books we should be aware of.
At last count six pigeon books have been published; those six comprise the current canon. What Jacobs would say, we know not. Our take on these six titles is that they represent in children’s books a new depth in shallowness.(Posted 1/23/2009)
Do your macbooks ever go on sale? If so, when?
Lots of answers to you questions, Mary. 1. Because BYU has an academic contract with Apple, Macbooks are always on sale at an academically discounted price, typically $50-300 less than retail depending on the model. 2. Back-to-school promotions begin in July and go through sometime in September. We have no prior knowledge of what will be offered, but traditionally savings are between $150-200 when a computer and iPod are bought together. 3. At unannounced times through out the school year we are able to offer special promotional bundles wich often include a free printer of AppleCare package. 4. When a new model in announced, the old one often is deeply discounted. For instance, in February the new MacBookPro came out and the old model went from $2299 to $1699 plus free AppleCare was thrown in ($239 value). The problem is no one knows beforehand exactly what the offers are going to be or even precisely when they will happen. Apple thrives on secrecy, so you’ll simply have to pass through the computer department or place a call every so often to see what’s up. Except for the back-to-school promotion, the deals last only until the discounted products are gone.(Posted 3/28/2008)
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