Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/09

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Subject: [Leica] opening bell
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 19:43:28 +0000
References: <20150409160100.CF16C45CE35@vegetablegroup.org> <000601d072df$496fedd0$dc4fc970$@comcast.net>

I currently get that email about 4:00am on a Friday ;-)

john

-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.nz at leica-users.org] On 
Behalf Of Robert Clark
Sent: Friday, 10 April 2015 4:08 a.m.
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: Re: [Leica] opening bell

I still get a kick out of reading this...remembering the debate years ago of 
when was it "officially" Friday!

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+rclark01=comcast.net at leica-users.org] On 
Behalf Of reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 12:01 PM
To: lug at leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] opening bell

In the village of Kirimati, in the country of Kiribati, it is just after 
sunrise (06:01) on Friday, so the Leica Users Group 'For-sale Friday' is 
officially open for business. 

Kirimati is pronounced "Kee-ree-mass" and Kiribati is prounced 
"Kee-ree-bus". The island is known both as Kirimati and Kiritimati.
Kiritimati is pronounced "Kee-ri-see-mass". (Say it out loud.) When it was 
an English colony, it was  known as Christmas Island. There is another 
unrelated island with that name (an Australian territory in the Indian 
ocean). Kirimati is part of the Line Islands archipelago.

Kirimati is big enough to have two hotels and air service.
Despite its being a former British nuclear test site, it is now safe in 
terms of radiation hazard. There is a lot of cast-off military hardware 
littering the edges of the island, but it serves more as a replacement for 
pandanus leaves in the roofs of huts than as a danger. Piles of rusting 
scrap metal serve as landmarks.

There is spectacular fishing for bonefish on the shallow sand flats around 
the island.  It's slow film country; the light is incredibly intense, being 
very near the equator.


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