[HUG ] Re: SV: Re: SV: IMG: Recent Trips

Dork is mid 70's high school USA slang.
For Geek.



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Mark William Rabiner



> From: Tom Just Olsen <tjols@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:49:41 +0200 (MEST)
> To: <hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [HUG ] SV: Re: SV: IMG: Recent Trips
> 
> To Bob (The Eagle)
> 
> No.  I looked up my 2000 word German/Norwegian 'tourist phrase book' (haben
> sie unterhosen hier? - type of a thing), but found nothing on 'dork'.  My old
> 15.000 word German/Norwegian dictionary is somewhere in the house, - I'll look
> it up.  We had compulsory 5 years with German in my time at school.  I am not
> that good at it, but can find my way around Germany and handle simple phrases
> with a German telephone switchboard operators and so on, in my business.  I
> speak German 'fluently' when I am drunk, they say.  Just give me a schnaps and
> I'll be as good an orator as...well, forget it.
> 
> Adlerhorst means eagle's nest, by the way.
> 
> I liked learning languages and regret that I did not take it more seriously.
> We had a few years of French too, but I make total fool of myself whenever I
> go with my wife to a Paris restaurant and try my skills, - my wife say.  Her
> French is excellent.
> 
> Tom of Oslo
> 
>> From: Bob Adler [rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 2008-06-24 17:49:54 CEST
>> To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [HUG ] Re: SV: IMG: Recent Trips
>> 
>> Thanks Tom.
>> Do you know the German word for a baby eagle? I've been told it's a dork :-)
>> Bob
>> 
>>  Bob Adler
>> Palo Alto, CA
>> http://www.raflexions.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Tom Just Olsen <tjols@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:40:05 AM
>> Subject: [HUG ] SV: IMG: Recent Trips
>> 
>> Bob (the Eagle),
>> 
>> I have been both to Big Sur and Lime Kiln.  Very nice photos!
>> 
>> Regards Tom of Oslo
>> 
>>> From: Bob Adler [rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx]
>>> Sent: 2008-06-23 04:54:29 CEST
>>> To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [HUG ] IMG: Recent Trips
>>> 
>>> After Yosemite in April/May, attention turned back to Big Sur. About an hour
>>> south of the town of Big Sur is a California State Park, Lime Kiln. If you
>>> drive in and walk down to the ocean, it's completely uninspiring. The first
>>> time we did that and just got back in the vehicle and continued on.
>>> Next time, on a tip from a co-worker, we went the other way, deep into a
>>> beautiful redwood forest with at least 3 major streams. One ends at a 100
>>> foot high waterfall which I didn't shoot. It's not a regular waterfall with
>>> a couple of torrents showering down; it has about 100 little falls that fan
>>> out from the top so the bottom of the falls is as wide as the falls are
>>> high. Jim has some good shots of it, after climbing like a mountain goat
>>> which I wasn't about to do.
>>> Another stream goes up to the lime kilns. These are mamouth kilns built in
>>> the late 1800s to extract lime from the limestone. There are 3 of them, each
>>> about 30 - 40 feet high; steel turrets falling apart in these beautiful
>>> overgrown redwood forests. How they built these monstrosoties way up on this
>>> hill in the middle of nowhere and how they got the lime stones and resultant
>>> lime back down is beyond me.
>>> The third major stream is just a beautiful walk going nowhere; my kind of
>>> place...
>>> http://www.raflexions.com/LKP
>>> Hope you enjoy these. Certainly worth a walk if you're ever in the area,
>>> Bob
>>> P.S. - Tech stuff: Velvia 50 and FP4 taken with various combinations of
>>> apprx. 40lbs of gear muled around on my back...
>>>  Bob Adler
>>> Palo Alto, CA
>>> http://www.raflexions.com
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 



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