Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good to have you back! Go learn Tai Chi, it's good for your health (That's my standard answer to every thing :-) ) On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > The Computer History Museum is in Mountain View, CA. It has the largest > collection of computer artifacts in the world. What is on display is > something like between 5 and 10 percent of the collection. Yet it is an > incredibly large display; if you walk through every single gallery you will > have walked a quarter mile. > > If you want a capsule history of the Museum, here is a link to a Wikipedia > article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_History_Museum > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > On Feb 18, 2014, at 5:16 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > > > Herbert, > > > > Very happy you are feeling better. If the winter weather plus the flu > won't get you down I don't know what will. Plus, I get sick whenever I > have to take antibiotics. I had to take cipro for 30 days year before > last. If we have a terrorist anthrax attack I'll take the anthrax, thanks. > So where is the Computer History Museum? > > > > Ken > > > > On 2/18/2014 11:59 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote: > >> Some time ago my wife and I came down with fever, a cough and a liquid > nose. independent doctors (her's and mine) after a chest X-rays that "did > not rule out pneumonia" were prescribed the same anti-biotic. We were sick > for about three weeks. It was quite profound: my weight is down by six > percent, and for a few days, you could say that I was clinically depressed. > >> > >> While the "quacks" wouldn't commit themselves: we both had flu shots > and they said there were no statistics on people getting flu after having > the shots, I'm convinced that it had to have been flu. It was too profound. > >> > >> The effect of the temporary depression was that I couldn't communicate > with friends. While last Saturday, I felt that I had recovered sufficiently > to do my regular shift at the Computer History Museum, which was > participating in a 45 minute lecture demonstration of the Babbage > Difference Engine, followed a quarter hour later by a one-hour guided tour > of the Museum, the very next day I felt as follows: > >> > >> I couldn't bring myself to phone my geocaching buddy, a friend since > 1986. I went almost under protest to a performance of Die Fledermaus and > sat there wishing I were somewhere else. My wife had organized a party of > friends for dinner after the performance, and I just opted out; asked to be > dropped off at home. I just couldn't talk to people. > >> > >> The next day, yesterday, I was over it. Strange. > >> > >> Herbert Kanner > >> kanner at acm.org > >> 650-326-8204 > >> > >> Question authority and the authorities will question you. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto