Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greetings to you Jerry. Actually, thanks to my wife and her strong will forcing me to buy a house that I didn't want to buy at the time, I do in fact live in a very nice neighborhood. However, I wander over a rather large area and am fairly observant. An example would be visiting some friends near Piedmont park and noticing some interesting activity out the window. A person standing near a light pole would answer one cell phone. Soon, a car would pull up, the person would make a call on another cell phone and in a minute or so another person riding a scooter would pull up to the car and pass a small package to the driver then drive off. Another example would be a well dressed in an odd sort of way gentleman at Lenox mall with three or four rather attractive women checking out the skanky stuff while answering several phones then talking to one of the girls who then disappeared somewhere. So, you see, there is interesting flora and fauna all around us if we just open our eyes and really see. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jerry Lehrer Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 12:53 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: mobile phones (WAS: Film is not dead!) Don You must live in a "fine" neighborhood to have local drug lords and pimps! :-) Jerry Don Dory wrote: > Just a confirmation from my side of the Atlantic. Just about everyone > between the ages of 45 and 12 has a cell phone. In the age group > between 25 and 12 I don't think they will get a land line which will be > really bad news to all the grandparents depending on the Bells for > retirement. In fact, an acquaintance was in real trouble when he lost > his company cell phone when he was Riffed out as it was his only phone > and all his family had only that means of contacting him. > > As a status symbol, when the local Drug Lords have three and four cells > and the Pimps have four or five, I don't think status is the operative > word. > > Don > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Daniel > Ridings > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:58 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: mobile phones (WAS: Film is not dead!) > > I'm just like Nathan. In fact, I didn't even bother getting a land-line > for my Oslo address. I can be in Africa, anywhere in Europe or even the > places I go to in the US (Chicago, midwest area) and people can always > call me on the same number. I would say that around 80 - 90% of all > 15-year-olds in Sweden and probably Norway too have cell-phones. It's > just > the way they communicate now. When that many have one, there's no status > to it at all. > > Daniel > > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > > Hi Peter, > > > > Usually I agree with your comments, but here I must say that at least > on > > my side of the Atlantic, having a mobile phone ceased to be a status > > symbol of any kind long ago. It is simply an indispensable part of > > personal life for hundreds of millions of people. I don't even give > out > > my fixed phone number anymore (home or office); most of the time when > > people want to call me, they do not even know which country I am in > :-) > > > > Nathan > > > > Peter Klein wrote: > > > > > In this respect "digital" joins things like cell phones, PDAs, fax > > > machines, PCs, Cabbage Patch dolls, hula hoops and oat bran as Stuff > That > > > All With-It People Gotta Have. > > > > > > > -- > > Nathan Wajsman > > Almere, The Netherlands > > > > e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl > > Mobile: +31 630 868 671 > > > > Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com > > -- > > 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 > > -- > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html