[Leica] You're just a bunch of LUGS!

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Thanks Lea:

Carpe Diem.  That cabin was "renovated" soon after I took the picture 
and the door was replaced with a plain "modern" beige steel door.

Jim - http://www.hemenway.com



lea wrote:

> Jim,
> 
> I love this shot.
> http://www.hemenway.com/pages/Eric%27s%20Door.htm
> 
> Lea
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:54 AM
> Subject: [Leica] You're just a bunch of LUGS!
> 
> 
> 
>>Checking the LUG, at least in the morning, is as necessary to me as my
>>first cuppa coffee. Pretty much the same for the RUG.... kinda.
>>
>>My thanks too, to Brian... for the LUG and the Leica knowledge that
> 
> I've
> 
>>gained... and especially for allowing threads related to digital
>>cameras, hats, drinks and other alien topics. That's a big part of
> 
> what
> 
>>makes the LUG such a magnet to me.
>>
>>I know when he has had enough though, when my last post on a subject
>>doesn't seems to make it to the list. :-)
>>
>>Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
>>
>>
>>B. D. Colen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Let me second everything here, including and especially the thanks
> 
> to
> 
>>>Brian for making this possible, and add that I have long viewed the
> 
> LUG
> 
>>>as a cyberspace country store, where people gather to warm their
> 
> hands
> 
>>>around the stove, trade tall-tales and advice, touch base with
> 
> friends,
> 
>>>and perhaps even pick up a needed item (or bit of knowledge in the
> 
> case
> 
>>>of the LUG). Yes, Leica ownership is what has drawn us all to this
>>>particular store, but once in the door and leaning back in the
> 
> rickety
> 
>>>chairs, that doesn't seem quite so important.
>>>
>>>What I am constantly amazed by his how a list such as this draws
>>>together people from all over the world, with common interests, who
>>>would otherwise be utterly unaware of each other's existence. As
> 
> I've
> 
>>>said before, several of the people who I now count among my small
> 
> circle
> 
>>>of really close friends are people who I not only met on the LUG,
> 
> but
> 
>>>who just happen to live within 5-10 miles of my home, people with
> 
> whom I
> 
>>>have an enormous amount in common - beyond owning Leica Ms that are
>>>gathering dust - and whom I would not know were it not for this
> 
> on-line
> 
>>>community.
>>>
>>>I also never cease to be amazed that the 'media' has not done more
>>>reporting on the phenomenon of groups like the LUG, and the power of
> 
> the
> 
>>>internet to create communities of people all over the globe; well,
>>>communities of people whose common interest is something other than
>>>pornography. :-)
>>>
>>>B. D.
>>
>>