Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/17

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Subject: [Leica] opening bell
From: lightandpower at gmail.com (Austin Burbridge)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:34:07 -0700
References: <20090917160100.79BA3170172@vegetablegroup.org>

Please, where can I read up on the rules for "For-sale Friday"?

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:01 AM,  <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
> 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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Replies: Reply from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] opening bell)
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