[Leica] opening bell

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Those days quite a time back the main thing which bugged me was when people
would hit that send key more than one time. Way too spammy for my blood. But
a distant memory.
I enjoy hearing about the latest insights on the island of Kiribati.
Otherwise known as The island of the lingering Friday.


On 4/9/15 12:07 PM, "Robert Clark" <rclark01 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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