[rollei_list] Re: ADMIN: Veselo Voskrasainye!
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:50:10 -0800
I thought it was *Hristos Razdajetsja. *
Either way, all the best to you this season and all others on the list.
And for you Marc - Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ur. :-)
May next year be a wonderful year for us all. And keep those shutters
snapping.
Peter K
On 12/24/05, Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Now, THAT got your attention: it's not often that you find a message with
> a subj: field of "Merry Christmas" in Russian crudely transferred into
> the
> Roman alphabet.
>
> This is a grand time for peace, calm, and reflection, and I'd like to
> thank
> all for their courteous and kind discourse over the past year. This List
> is nothing without members, of course, but this List is defined by the
> discourse among the members, and you guys have been a positive, solid, and
> decent source of sound communication. I always learn much from the
> discussions and I stand, as I have for the past many years, in awe of the
> wide-ranging and detailed knowledge of our folks.
>
> So, the best of the Holidays to all -- Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, und
> so weiter -- and a decent Winterleaven to the agnostics and Wiccans
> (properly pronounced "witchin", incidentally, but the modern proponents do
> not recall the proper saying of Old English words, so this one is right
> down the drain, along with efforts to teach American teen-age lasses that
> "Caitlin" is NOT "Kate-Lynn" but an Irish spelling for "Kathleen" and
> deserves pronunciation in its original form as "Kat-leen", but, the, so be
> it).
>
> Enjoy the time of the Solistice and remember that those days are getting
> so
> much longer now <he grins>. And we have not yet discussed the death of
> Hasselblad's film cameras and the impact this will have on Rollei in the
> year to come. I am heavily invested in Hasselblad but at not much actual
> cost, as my stuff is almost all C gear. I'd have been into an SL66 had
> the
> prices for these gems ever dipped to the level which Hasselblad C gear
> fell
> a decade back.
>
> Have a grand time, folks, and enjoy this time of family, friends, and a
> solid faith that the days WILL get longer, that winter will go away, and
> that Computer-Generated Images will only get more bizarre in the years to
> come.
>
> And a straight-mechanical analog film camera with film produced in a real,
> honest-to-God wet darkroom STILL produces an image with more information
> than does the fanciest digital sensor. That will change, but not for a
> while. We still own the world, guys, at least in terms of data capture.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
> NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505
>
>
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