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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Old Fartdom
From: "Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:20:56 -0500
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Brian-
December 23rd is my birthday, and I have mentioned to all my friends that in
2012, being the Mayan end time, I was going to have one helluva blowout of a
birthday party! I might just get a busload rounded up, and a few cases of
Coronas and Modelos Negras, and meet you there- if it goes as planned, we
won't have to worry about a hangover, and if it doesn't.... well, we will be
just a coupla old farts being eccentric. A definite win-win situation!!
See you there... oh, by the way, bring your Leicas.... we want to record
this for sure!
Dan
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From: <bampolsk@csc.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 9:10 AM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Old Fartdom


> Three cheers for Sal and Ted!!!  As someone quickly pushing old-fartdom
> (I'm 59), I refuse to go quietly into the night or anywhere else.  In
fact,
> I plan to spend December 23, 2012 (the end of the current Mayan epoch and
> beginning of the next - I'll be 70 then) on top of a pyramid in Uaxactun,
> Guatemala...  Uaxactun is a beautiful Mayan site which has so far been
> uncluttered and undiscovered by tourists.  So, on that auspicious
occasion,
> I intend to be at Uaxactun starting from the Winter Solstice.  I was there
> this year for the summer solstice and it was spectacular.  Uaxactun has
the
> oldest astronomical complex in the Mayan world, the E-Group, probably
built
> initially around 100BCE, and then rebuilt several times, as the Maya were
> wont to do.  The E-group is explicitly set up for viewing the equinoxes
and
> solstices, and unlike Chichen Itza and Tikal, my travel companion and I
> were the only ones there for the summer solstice.  Anyway, as long as I
can
> carry around a Leica or two with a 28 summicron, I'll be out snapping and
> enjoying the things others have built.  Meantime, I'll continue to enjoy
> all manners of things like sex, opera, archaeology, Leicas, Leicas and
> Leicas.  By the way, my kids (15 and 17) claim that I've been an old fart
> for years already.  Shows what they know...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
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