[Leica] opening bell

[jklu at sas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey Lu)]

all that time spent teaching - you forgot how to follow instructions!  "say 
it
out loud," like your kindergarten teacher told you, you won't forget it then.

the timeless basics - when those rip and tumble through the "sieve" - now 
that's
a bad sign.  at least that's how it is when i lecture my profs in nighttime
dreams ;)

Quoting "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>:

> Slow. Realllllll slllllllloooooooowwwwwwwww.
> The funny thing is that I recall having read the part about the
> radiation, the scrap metal, the bone fishing, and the light - but I have
> absolutely no recollection of the pronunciation guide and the fact that
> it was Christmas Island. That's not a good sign, is it? :-(
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Richard S. Taylor
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:39 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] opening bell
>
>
> B.D. - Finally read that, did you?
>
>
> >All this time and we've been talking about bleeping CHRISTMAS ISLAND
> >every week?! DOH!!!! :-)
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> >[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>
> >reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:01 PM
> >To: lug@leica-users.org
> >Subject: [Leica] opening bell
> >
> >
> >In the village of Kirimati, in the country of Kiribati, it
> >is just after sunrise (06:01) on Friday, so the Leica
> >Users Group 'For-sale Friday' is officially open for
> >business.
> >
> >Kirimati is pronounced "Kee-ree-mass" and Kiribati is
> >prounced "Kee-ree-bus". The island is known both as
> >Kirimati and Kiritimati. Kiritimati is pronounced "Kee-ri-see-mass".
> >(Say it out loud.) When it was an English colony, it was  known as
> >Christmas Island. There is another unrelated island with that name (an
> >Australian territory in the Indian ocean). Kirimati is part of the Line
>
> >Islands archipelago.
> >
> >Kirimati is big enough to have two hotels and air service. Despite its
> >being a former British nuclear test site, it is now safe in terms of
> >radiation hazard. There is a lot of cast-off military hardware
> >littering the edges of the island, but it serves more as a replacement
> >for pandanus leaves in the roofs of huts than as a danger. Piles of
> >rusting scrap metal serve as landmarks.
> >
> >There is spectacular fishing for bonefish on the shallow
> >sand flats around the island.  It's slow film country; the light is
> >incredibly intense, being very near the equator.
> >
> >
> >NO ARCHIVE
> >server1:~/cals/leicafriday1.sh
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>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick
> Boston MA
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