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