Usenet, dial up modems starting at 300 baud, acoustic couplers, paper tape
punching/reading at 110 baud. Ah, the memories....

Thank you for providing another sink hole for my time :-)

Gerrit

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From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Larry Colen
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 2:43 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: PESO Muruga's lunch / first K-5II pic

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:29:42PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote:
> Manual?  Hell I find it more disturbing that Larry has Cow-orkers.
> What are orkers?  That he talks to! What are orkers anyway? Sounds 
> more like something that a pig would have not a cow...

I guess you aren't old enough to remember usenet:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html

BTW, the Jargon files are a wonderfully fun timesuck.  

Pick a word, and start following interesting looking links in the
definition:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/go01.html

You can even learn about such things as scratch-monkeys:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html

> 
> On 6/28/2013 10:17 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
> >The K-5II has a manual?  A MANUAL!
> >We don't need no stinking manuals!
> >Regards,  Bob S.
> >
> >On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote:
> >>I was going to read the K-5II manual at lunch, and got chatting with 
> >>my cow-orkers. They were curious about the DA35 macro, so I snapped 
> >>this pic of Muruga's lunch.  For sucha  silly shot, I think it turned
out pretty nice:
> >>http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/9158332052/
> >>
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