Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - ----- Original Message ----- 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html