Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ah, gin. Gin. That most beautiful of beautiful ladies. Gin, above all, was my downfall. It turns into a wicked hallucinogen. Hallucino-Gin, I should say. Something in those juniper berries. Anyway I know Harriman State Park but your pictures were from the other side of the river I believe. I'll look all those places up. Thanks for all that. I'll definitely be in touch if we can head up your way! Vince On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > Just a couple of answers: > > The parks you speak of are all around this area. New York State is park > crazy. It was a tradition of the super wealthy, the Rockefellers, the > Vanderbilts, the Harrimans, the Roosevelts, etc. to donate their estates to > the public. It also saved them a bundle on taxes. Within a short bike ride > of my house, just north of Croton, we have Croton Point, a very large > county > park extending into the Hudson River, Blue Mountain State Park featuring > miles of mountain bike and horse riding trails, the Croton Dam Aqueduct > trail which follows the old Croton aqueduct 40 mile to NYC, the Peekskill - > Briarcliff trailway, and the Hudson River Parkway, a section of the planned > 100 mile long park along the river funded by the NYS Clean Waters Act. The > very big 190 sq. km. Bear Mountain/Harriman State Park is just across the > river and is a section of the Appalachian trail. The trail itself crosses > the much photographed Bear Mountain Bridge. Stretching along the river to > New Jersey is the Palisades Park with its towering cliffs. And then there > are many more. If you want to drive a bit further you can rough it in the > "forever wild" Adirondack State Park - three times the size of Yellowstone. > > About used Macs. If you can forgo Windows compatibility you can pick up a > used high end G4 Mac for peanuts. Say under $300. These will run Photoshop, > GraphicConverter, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and all the other goodies in Mac's > iLife suite. Free programs are available which are more than adequate > substitutes for MS Word and Excel. I'm writing this on my absolute favorite > computer, a 5 year old Mac 12" Powerbook. > > Ric is right. Your son's Mac computer may well be rescued by one of the > disc > correction programs like Disc Warrior. If that fails, a simple > reinstallation of the operating system may be all that is necessary. Macs > usually don't die unless the screen goes black and smoke starts coming from > the openings. > > Lime and cranberry - sounds good. It might be better with a drop of gin. > Just the subject for a critical taste test. > > Larry Z > > - - - - - > > I might be in touch sometime this summer as I'd love to bring my little boy > > up to that park you had such lovely pictures of; where is it again? Along > > the reservoir or the river? Anyway I'm not drinking these days but I'll > > have my usual seltzer with lime and cranberry while I advise you on whiskey > > choices. > > > Thanks for that sage advice. I didn't know about the used macs and my (20 > > year old) son needs a new computer (which I will have to pay for; he got > the > > dreaded little "file folder" symbol that signalled the end of his Mac) so > > we'll look into that. > > > Vince > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >