Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don I did a web search, and found that Piedmont Park is in Atlanta. Jerry Don Dory wrote: > Greetings to you Jerry. > > Actually, thanks to my wife and her strong will forcing me to buy a > house that I didn't want to buy at the time, I do in fact live in a very > nice neighborhood. However, I wander over a rather large area and am > fairly observant. > > An example would be visiting some friends near Piedmont park and > noticing some interesting activity out the window. A person standing > near a light pole would answer one cell phone. Soon, a car would pull > up, the person would make a call on another cell phone and in a minute > or so another person riding a scooter would pull up to the car and pass > a small package to the driver then drive off. > > Another example would be a well dressed in an odd sort of way gentleman > at Lenox mall with three or four rather attractive women checking out > the skanky stuff while answering several phones then talking to one of > the girls who then disappeared somewhere. > > So, you see, there is interesting flora and fauna all around us if we > just open our eyes and really see. > > Don > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jerry > Lehrer > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 12:53 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: mobile phones (WAS: Film is not dead!) > > Don > > You must live in a "fine" neighborhood to have local drug lords and > pimps! :-) > > Jerry > > Don Dory wrote: > > > Just a confirmation from my side of the Atlantic. Just about everyone > > between the ages of 45 and 12 has a cell phone. In the age group > > between 25 and 12 I don't think they will get a land line which will > be > > really bad news to all the grandparents depending on the Bells for > > retirement. In fact, an acquaintance was in real trouble when he lost > > his company cell phone when he was Riffed out as it was his only phone > > and all his family had only that means of contacting him. > > > > As a status symbol, when the local Drug Lords have three and four > cells > > and the Pimps have four or five, I don't think status is the operative > > word. > > > > Don > > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Daniel > > Ridings > > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:58 AM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: mobile phones (WAS: Film is not dead!) > > > > I'm just like Nathan. In fact, I didn't even bother getting a > land-line > > for my Oslo address. I can be in Africa, anywhere in Europe or even > the > > places I go to in the US (Chicago, midwest area) and people can always > > call me on the same number. I would say that around 80 - 90% of all > > 15-year-olds in Sweden and probably Norway too have cell-phones. It's > > just > > the way they communicate now. When that many have one, there's no > status > > to it at all. > > > > Daniel > > > > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > > > Usually I agree with your comments, but here I must say that at > least > > on > > > my side of the Atlantic, having a mobile phone ceased to be a status > > > symbol of any kind long ago. It is simply an indispensable part of > > > personal life for hundreds of millions of people. I don't even give > > out > > > my fixed phone number anymore (home or office); most of the time > when > > > people want to call me, they do not even know which country I am in > > :-) > > > > > > Nathan > > > > > > Peter Klein wrote: > > > > > > > In this respect "digital" joins things like cell phones, PDAs, fax > > > > machines, PCs, Cabbage Patch dolls, hula hoops and oat bran as > Stuff > > That > > > > All With-It People Gotta Have. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Nathan Wajsman > > > Almere, The Netherlands > > > > > > e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl > > > Mobile: +31 630 868 671 > > > > > > Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html