[Leica] Monday Misc.

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

I like the second one, and the last one. In the latter, you have captured a
cold and calculating persona, an attribute which, I presume, is necessary
for success in her chosen profession of influence peddling!

Cheers
Jayanand



On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 3:31?PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Greetings to all.  Last week the LBJ library hosted a educational gathering
> on the nuclear industry in Texas partially sponsored by ret. Sen. Kay
> Bailey Hutchinson's non-profit.  I won't bore you with the speaker
> particulars but instead present some vignettes out of the attendee's.
> First we have a friend of mine mocking me taking another picture of him:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/What_.jpg.html
>
> This man's craggy features just appealed to me:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/profile+in+listening.jpg.html
>
> I always try to include the behind the scenes folk who make the front of
> the house look good:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/Prepping+the+slide+deck.jpg.html
>
> This woman looks nothing like my grandmother but her bearing and choice of
> clothes brings back fond memories:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/old+school+proper.jpg.html
>
> Recognizing the importance of Lady Bird to LBJ's ability to govern this man
> was next to a large mural of a young Lady Bird:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/I_m+with+her.jpg.html
>
> I didn't know it at the time but this woman is a lobbyist for the nuclear
> industry action group in Texas:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/lobbyist.jpg.html
>
> For clarification, Texas is working very hard to develop small nuclear
> reactors (think pick up size).  The Leg allocated a significant amount of
> money for seeding early manufacture, there is a prototype up and running at
> one of the UT system campuses in north Texas.  There is a beta reactor
> testing here in Austin in conjunction with fast tracking manufacturing
> capability.
>
> All the best.
>
> --
> Don
> don.dory at gmail.com
>
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