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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Old Fartdom
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:51:23 -0800
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bampolsk@csc.com wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

I just checked and a Mayan epoch is 5125 years.
Which makes it one heck of a good reason to get a new start, a new
attitude, clean out ones attack, trade in ones Nikons for Leicas!


Mark Rabiner
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.markrabiner.com
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