Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Real Men Use PC's
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:09:33 -0700

Marc James Small wrote:
> 
> At 12:30 PM 8/18/1999 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> >None of my Photographer friends or Graphic Artist friends don't use a Mac.
> There
> >is a peer group pressure thing going on here as no one wants to be
> ostracized.
> >I'm sure widows are fine once you've got the thing configured. But for me
> user
> >configuring is part of the deal and I'm glad I don't have to hire a
> consultant
> >just to upgrade a piece of software. I do tend to think of PC users as
> "suits."
> >I also think of them as meat eating smokers with Mac the opposite in most
> cases.
> 
> Ha!  I AM a meat-eating, Scotch-swilling pipe-and-cigar smoker.  I have no
> friends, so avoid peer pressure most neatly.  I do know how to configure
> new software on my Pentia computers.
> 
> Avoid vegetables, as they are mainly water, and people drown in water and
> it rusts your cameras.  Meat is MUCH healthier for you.
> 
> Marc

I deserved that.
But I get more ostracization (they set it at Pureé) from being a hard core
health nut than by proper indulgences in civilized pursuits.
And Pipe smoke is pretty pleasant.
Mark Rabiner