On 8 Mar 2018, at 19:34, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I was learning photography and darkroom techniques I was studying long > division and reading the Hardy Boys. I was ten years old.
I read them when I was seven. In Sanskrit. During breaks in nuclear physics classes. That I was giving. > > >> On Mar 8, 2018, at 2:26 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think BobW and I are soul mates. When I was getting deeper into >> photography in High School, I was studying Latin, German, Old English, >> Physics, Calculus, and reading S.I. Hayakawa's treatise on general >> semantics, "Language in Thought and Action." I'd already signed off on the >> French as savages. >> >> G >> — >> "We all get to be young and foolish in our lives. If we survive that, we get >> to be old and foolish." >> >>> On Mar 8, 2018, at 10:50 AM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Your masochism knows no bounds. >>> >>>> On 08 March 2018 at 16:36 Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> At the same time I was learning photography I was also starting to read >>>> French literature... >>>> >>>>> On 8 Mar 2018, at 15:57, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You crack me up, Bob! That's a great line ...! :-) >>>>> ... >>>>> >>>>>> On Mar 8, 2018, at 7:22 AM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Sounds like he needs an adult real-life lesson that will leave him >>>>>> feeling inadequate, unloved and in despair at the pointlessness of >>>>>> existence, so anything by Pentax will do. >>>>>> >>>>>> ... >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 8 Mar 2018, at 14:31, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> A sister has asked me for advice on a beginning camera for her >>>>>>> grandson. He’s 12, intelligent, creative, self-disciplined—all-in-all >>>>>>> pretty precocious about many things. I have my own thoughts, which may >>>>>>> not be best, but wondered what y’all might recommend. >>>>>>> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
