Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Y'all indeed, Seems I'm having a birthday as well this weekend, and I wish my pressie had been as romantic: I love the mechanical minox: the whole system is a work of art. Congratulations and happy birthday Bob: I'll be in Chicago in time for your next one ;-) Cheers On 30/11/2006, at 16:30, bob palmieri wrote: > Y'all - > > So it seems I had a birthday this weekend and decided to get myself > a frivolous yet practical & affordable present; to this end I'm > having Don Goldberg send me a rebuilt Minox IIIs. (This > simultaneously tags me as a sucker for cool machines and also as an > unreconstructed film addict.) > > Elsewhere in the news someone in the family gave me a really nice > Case pocketknife which she sez was her grandfather's (she's my age > so this is a somewhat vintage piece.) It has three blades, two of > which are almost identical. My father-in-law sez that this is > because everyone he knew who had a pocketknife back in the day used > to break off part of one of the blades and grind the stump into a > screwdriver. Anyone know if this was indeed a common practice in > the early-middle parts of the 20th century?? > > Also, if we keep talkin' about the creativity and craft of certain > late 60's-early seventies rock bands I just may hafta bring up Mott > the Hoople... > > Bob Palmieri > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information