Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Those are the 'rules' Austin! We are asked to limit For Sale ads or Wanted To Buys to Fridays on Kiribati time zone. You can offer whatever you like as long as its legal. Some more organised people put FS or WTB in the message title. 2009/9/18 Austin Burbridge <lightandpower at gmail.com> > Please, where can I read up on the rules for "For-sale Friday"? > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:01 AM, <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > > In the village of Kirimati, in the country of Kiribati, it > > is just after sunrise (06:01) on Friday, so the Leica > > Users Group 'For-sale Friday' is officially open for > > business. > > > > Kirimati is pronounced "Kee-ree-mass" and Kiribati is > > prounced "Kee-ree-bus". The island is known both as > > Kirimati and Kiritimati. Kiritimati is pronounced > > "Kee-ri-see-mass". (Say it out loud.) When it was an > > English colony, it was known as Christmas Island. There > > is another unrelated island with that name (an Australian > > territory in the Indian ocean). Kirimati is part of the > > Line Islands archipelago. > > > > Kirimati is big enough to have two hotels and air service. > > Despite its being a former British nuclear test site, it > > is now safe in terms of radiation hazard. There is a lot > > of cast-off military hardware littering the edges of the > > island, but it serves more as a replacement for pandanus > > leaves in the roofs of huts than as a danger. Piles of > > rusting scrap metal serve as landmarks. > > > > There is spectacular fishing for bonefish on the shallow > > sand flats around the island. It's slow film country; the > > light is incredibly intense, being very near the equator. > > > > > > NO ARCHIVE > > server1:~/cals/leicafriday1.sh > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff The new LEICA M9 Passion for perfect pictures. http://www.m.leica-camera.com http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman