Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Terrific Douglas lets see the jpegs you make from the prints you make if you ever finish that darkroom and learn how to print. So far we got nothin. On 4/3/15 5:56 PM, "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Wow, Mark! All that media absorption every day, and you find the time to > type stuff too! > > You are the KING of W80th St and Riverside Drive. > > Douglas > who got a sink in his new darkroom yesterday. Forward to the Past... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 8:50 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] RIP My Newspaper > > > Frank you're right and the education in the US is a national disgrace if > anyone cared and they don't. And the high level of anti intellectualism. > Having a favorite author, poet or artists is looked upon with suspicion. As > is just reading intelligent book. There's a huge thing on "the schoolhouse" > as if this is a basic value. its not. Its the last place any money is going > to. Teachers get less than the janitors. > We live in a society where stupidity is treasured. > I don't think its like that in Europe and Asia etc. > Yet we lead the world in many important areas. I have no idea how that > happens. > > When the internet hit we started getting news feeds on our home pages of > our > browsers.. My first browser was Netscape and the big thing I put on the > top > of my page was International news. Under that smaller was US News. Then art > and high tech news. > Now I have an old version of Safari and I have which I picked : > Top Stories, (which I think is both international and US news.) > New York, New York > Suggested for you > the arts what's happ... > Day in Photos > Books > Physics > Entertainment > Nikon > Apple Inc. > Leica > World > Technology > Science > U.S. > Photography > Spotlight > Health > Business > New York Fashion > > And then I have my list of news sources on a menu which I've already > posted. > I go down the list in order or skip around depending on my mood in the > morning on my first cup of Russian Caravan Tea. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events > http://www.observer.com/ > http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/manhattan/upper-west-side-morningside-height > s > http://www.westsiderag.com/ > http://westsidespirit.com/ > http://www.newrepublic.com/ > http://www.bbc.com/news/ > http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/ > http://www.usatoday.com/ > http://nymag.com/ > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ > http://gawker.com/ > http://www.nypost.com/ > http://www.villagevoice.com/ > http://www.cnn.com/ > http://online.wsj.com/home-page > http://www.bloomberg.com/ > http://www.brooklynpaper.com/ > http://www.newsday.com/ > http://www.antonnews.com/roslynnews.html > http://www.evesun.com/ > http://www.columbiaspectator.com/ > http://www.columbiajournalist.org/ > http://www.dailykos.com/ > http://www.newyorker.com/ > http://www.cjr.org/ > http://www.dnainfo.com/ > http://www.nyphotoreview.com/NYPR_REVS/NYPR_REV907.html > http://glencoe.suntimes.com/index.html > http://winnetka.suntimes.com/ > http://www.desmoinesregister.com/ > http://www.stltoday.com/ > http://www.websterkirkwoodtimes.com/ > http://www.portlandsocietypage.com/ > http://www.nwexaminer.com/ > http://www.latimes.com/ > http://nationaljournal.com/ > http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ > http://www.vanityfair.com/ > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ > http://www.latimes.com/ > http://news.yahoo.com/ > http://www.npr.org/ > http://news.cnet.com/ > http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn > http://www.guardian.co.uk/ > http://www.zimbio.com/ > http://news.yahoo.com/ > http://www.latimes.com/ > http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/technology/david-pogue/1194811622273 > /index.html > http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/usstate/usnewyor.htm > http://www.nyphotoreview.com/index.html > http://www.theparisreview.org/ > http://www.greenwichtime.com/ > http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/ > http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/ > http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/manhattan/upper-west-side-morningside-height > s > http://www.theguardian.com/us > http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/ > http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l > http://nationalreport.net/ > http://www.playbill.com/ > > > All in all I'm I'm sure less informed than President Obama. But not by > much. > Its a great waste of time keeping up with current events for the most part. > > > > > On 4/3/15 4:04 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > >> I fear you are typical Mark. I find it really scary that the most powerful >> nation on earth?s voters are more interested in their neigbours aircon >> than >> world affairs, personally. > The UK was the ?Worlds police? for a couple of >> hundred years, up to being bankrupted by WW2, and it was an important part >> of >> school syllabus here to know and understand the geography and history of >> different parts of the world. The decisions were clearly biased and not >> always >> good, but were certainly much better informed than now that the USA is the >> ?Worlds police? and has voters neither interested in, nor informed about, >> the >> parts of the world their young men are being sent to die in. > Really should be >> in the forum so that is enough from me. > Frank > > >> On 3 Apr, 2015, at 06:04, >> Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> >> I'm less interested in US >> news and more interested in New York City news but >> more interested than that >> that in Upper West Side News specifically the area >> around Riverside Drive >> and W 80th street news. Like how many people got >> mowed down by cars >> yesterday or this week. >> I'd like the news in what's happening in this >> building. Like who's the lucky >> owner of the latest subwoofer. Who's having >> their AC unit put back in their >> window or are they going to wait for the >> first heat wave. >> >> >> >> -- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photographer >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/