Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Or Yoga (same principle - different culture) - both Yoga and Tai Chi treat the mind and body together, as two parts of a whole..... Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information