Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jerry, Piedmont Park is the main park in Atlanta excluding Grant Park which is where the zoo is and Stone Mountain which is where the KKK was. What was really interesting is that there is a police substation literally around the corner from my friend's apartment. I would guess some kind of mutually agreeable financial arrangement with the station house as there is never a siren heard. 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 10:34 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: mobile phones (WAS: Film is not dead!) Don Gee, I guess I missed all that stuff by living here instead of Piedmont Park. I suppose the police sirens would keep me awake all night. BTW, where is Piedmont Park? 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html