Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]DRIVE ON, TED!!!!!!!!!! (and thanks to Jim, too.) Your work has spoken highly of you & it is indeed a great pleasure to hear you spell it out!!! As long as this thread is on 'stupidity', let me quote a book on management by Scott Adams - "Everyone is an idot, not just people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot." and "We expect others to act rationally though we are irrational." and lastly, "Thanks to the printing press, the deviant smart people managed to capture their genious and communicate it without having to pass it on genitically. Evolution was short circuited. We got knowledge and technology before we got intelligence." That sums it up for me. Thanks, Tim K. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@islandnet.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: stupidity Jim Brick wrote: >Ted >Not on your life. You owe no one anything. > >And as far as being stupid, you are the one person on earth that doesn't >have a stupid bone in your body. > >You are the epitome of giving, caring, sharing, and the consummate >photographic craftsman and teacher. > >Of the 800 to 1000 LUGgers & LEGgers, you are above reproach. > >The fact that you call a spade a spade is absolute proof that you care >enough about people and the craft of photography, to keep it from degrading >into a quagmire of mediocrity.>>>> Hi Jim, Thank you, as I was beginning to think I'd lost it because I tried to write too long a piece saying what common sense and experience dictated I should say. I've never been called an elitist in my life, let alone in relation to photography. I've always believed that if you tell people their photography is something it's not, you're not doing them any favours, you are lying to them. By the same token, if you say there is something wrong, you damn well better have the gumption to explain to them how it could be better and do so in a manner that isn't hurtful, as no one learns if they get pissed off because you only tell them it's crap. The really good thing out of all of this? I've had a few posts of support and they've made my day more than you know. As I sure became dog assed tail down this morning thinking I had really written it wrong. I mean, I really don't like hurting other peoples feelings, it's not my style. I know I don't have the writing skills of some LUG members who are better educated, but I try damn hard to put the words down in a manner like I'd speak. I know it doesn't always come out like that, but I figure I don't do too bad for a 3rd year high school drop out, (54 years ago) who always wanted to be out in the world, "doing things" instead of taking all those lessons throughout my schooling years. Thanks again Jim for the support. ted Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant