Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George Huczek wrote: >There sure have been quite a few brain farts on this list over the past few >days. Lighten up.>>>>>> Happy New Year George, :) I think the problem has been a very simple case: "lack of Leicaittus cells!" As we came to the end of the year some folks reached the bottom of the cell tank and became testy. This cell loss created a lowering of the Leicaittus antibiotic thought process which in turn made the brain, mouth and finger tips malfunction in civility. :) Now we are into the last year of the century some things can be done to avoid the sniping, ""get a '99 project"" it'll keep you busy and you wont have time to be bitching. Here's one that's an interesting challenge for every LUG member and there are "NO EXCUSES" for not doing it! Unless, like Rip van Winkle, you intend on sleeping for the next 365 days.:) Starting to-day, as day 1 of the New Year, take your Leica, no matter what model, version, year or lens and swear an oath to take ___one meaningful__ picture everyday for the next 365! This time in one year, that's not long after you've put in 70. :) You'll have a record of the final year of the millineum. It can make a major exhibition for those inclined in that direction, it might even make a book for others. However what it will be, is a visual time capsule of your family, friends and general life during this year. It can be something of value, it will be that for sure, as we are the Leica time recorders of today for the historians and our families of the future. Imagine a hundred years from now your relatives are looking at what your life was like in the final year of the 1900's. This isn't a big deal it's not likely going to get you notoriety, fame and monetary fortune, but you never can tell. Can you? At worst it'll make a wonderful family album! It doesn't have to be in magical locations, high profile events, merely a "life moment" record of this very important time in history. You see we have Leica's, they expose film, "__but only when we the recorders get our asses in gear out the door and do something with the camera.__" When that happens, all this whining, bitching, back biting wont be here as everyone will be doing something photographically productive. As of today we still have the 365 days to go until according to the doomsday folks the great Y2K monster will devour our Leica's, so move it!:) ted Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant