[Leica] RIP My Newspaper

Fri Apr 3 15:22:18 PDT 2015

Terrific Douglas lets see the jpegs you make from the prints you make if you
ever finish that darkroom and learn how to print. So far we got nothin.

On 4/3/15 5:56 PM, "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Wow, Mark! All that media absorption every day, and you find the time to
> type stuff too!
> 
> You are the KING of W80th St and Riverside Drive.
> 
> Douglas
> who got a sink in his new darkroom yesterday. Forward to the Past...
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 8:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] RIP My Newspaper
> 
> 
> Frank you're right and the education in the US is a national disgrace if
> anyone cared and they don't.  And the high level of anti intellectualism.
> Having a favorite author, poet or artists is looked upon with suspicion. As
> is just reading intelligent book. There's a huge thing on "the schoolhouse"
> as if this is a basic value. its not. Its the last place any money is going
> to. Teachers get less than the janitors.
> We live in a society where stupidity is treasured.
> I don't think its like that in Europe and Asia etc.
> Yet we lead the world in many important areas. I have no idea how that
> happens.
> 
> When the internet hit we started getting news feeds on our home pages of our
> browsers.. My first browser was Netscape  and the big thing I put on the top
> of my page was International news. Under that smaller was US News. Then art
> and high tech news.
> Now I have an old version of Safari and I have which I picked :
> Top Stories, (which I think is both international and US news.)
> New York, New York
> Suggested for you
> the arts what's happ...
> Day in Photos
> Books
> Physics
> Entertainment
> Nikon
> Apple Inc.
> Leica
> World
> Technology
> Science
> U.S.
> Photography
> Spotlight
> Health
> Business
> New York Fashion
> 
> And then I have my list of news sources on a menu which I've already posted.
> I go down the list in order or skip around depending on my mood in the
> morning on my first cup of Russian Caravan Tea.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
> http://www.observer.com/
> http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/manhattan/upper-west-side-morningside-height
> s
> http://www.westsiderag.com/
> http://westsidespirit.com/
> http://www.newrepublic.com/
> http://www.bbc.com/news/
> http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/
> http://www.usatoday.com/
> http://nymag.com/
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
> http://gawker.com/
> http://www.nypost.com/
> http://www.villagevoice.com/
> http://www.cnn.com/
> http://online.wsj.com/home-page
> http://www.bloomberg.com/
> http://www.brooklynpaper.com/
> http://www.newsday.com/
> http://www.antonnews.com/roslynnews.html
> http://www.evesun.com/
> http://www.columbiaspectator.com/
> http://www.columbiajournalist.org/
> http://www.dailykos.com/
> http://www.newyorker.com/
> http://www.cjr.org/
> http://www.dnainfo.com/
> http://www.nyphotoreview.com/NYPR_REVS/NYPR_REV907.html
> http://glencoe.suntimes.com/index.html
> http://winnetka.suntimes.com/
> http://www.desmoinesregister.com/
> http://www.stltoday.com/
> http://www.websterkirkwoodtimes.com/
> http://www.portlandsocietypage.com/
> http://www.nwexaminer.com/
> http://www.latimes.com/
> http://nationaljournal.com/
> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/
> http://www.vanityfair.com/
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/
> http://www.latimes.com/
> http://news.yahoo.com/
> http://www.npr.org/
> http://news.cnet.com/
> http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/
> http://www.zimbio.com/
> http://news.yahoo.com/
> http://www.latimes.com/
> http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/technology/david-pogue/1194811622273
> /index.html
> http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/usstate/usnewyor.htm
> http://www.nyphotoreview.com/index.html
> http://www.theparisreview.org/
> http://www.greenwichtime.com/
> http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/
> http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/
> http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/manhattan/upper-west-side-morningside-height
> s
> http://www.theguardian.com/us
> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/
> http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l
> http://nationalreport.net/
> http://www.playbill.com/
> 
> 
> All in all I'm I'm sure less informed than President Obama. But not by much.
> Its a great waste of time keeping up with current events for the most part.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/3/15 4:04 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>> I fear you are typical Mark. I find it really scary that the most powerful
>> nation on earth¹s voters are more interested in their neigbours aircon
>> than
>> world affairs, personally.
> The UK was the ³Worlds police² for a couple of
>> hundred years, up to being bankrupted by WW2, and it was an important part
>> of
>> school syllabus here to know and understand the geography and history of
>> different parts of the world. The decisions were clearly biased and not
>> always
>> good, but were certainly much better informed than now that the USA is the
>> ³Worlds police² and has voters neither interested in, nor informed about,
>> the
>> parts of the world their young men are being sent to die in.
> Really should be
>> in the forum so that is enough from me.
> Frank
> 
> 
>> On 3 Apr, 2015, at 06:04,
>> Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm less interested in US
>> news and more interested in New York City news but
>> more interested than that
>> that in Upper West Side News specifically the area
>> around Riverside Drive
>> and W 80th street news. Like how many people got
>> mowed down by cars
>> yesterday or this week.
>> I'd like the news in what's happening in this
>> building. Like who's the lucky
>> owner of the latest subwoofer. Who's having
>> their AC unit put back in their
>> window or are they going to wait for the
>> first heat wave.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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>> 
>> 
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