Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just off the phone with an old friend who tells me somebody she knows is getting married on 10 10 10 day. I told her the reason why 8 9 10 day was brought to my attention is somebody I know is getting married today. That's how I first heard of it. People take these numbers very seriously. For other people its letters in the alphabet. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:14:20 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] 8/9/10 > > The "correct" date trivia eclipses the discussion of Tilly hats and single > malt scotches and matches all the balderdash about sensor sizes. If Luggers > want to be completely logical they should use the Julian date (named after > my uncle Julius). Real scientists do. Look it up in Wikipedia. > I label all my photos using the "Leica" date, a chronological listing of > days starting from November 1, 1879, the birthday of Oskar Barnack. > However, > I choose my daily wardrobe based on the conventional MM/DD/YY format since, > as Rei pointed out, the month is the most important determinant in deciding > to wear shorts or woolies. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information