PAW is Photo A Week, for the anal retentive among us. PESO is Photo Every So Often, for those of us who seem to be unable to keep a schedule.
Stuff for sale is usually posted on Fridays but really you can do it most anytime. Rules, RULES? There are no Stinkin' rules on the PDML!!! However if you're /really/ annoying be prepaired to be ignored. -----Original Message----- >From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> >Sent: Jan 28, 2009 11:34 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: New guy, Introduction > >On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:58:20AM -0500, Doug Franklin wrote: > ># Hi Larry, ># ># Larry Colen wrote: ># ># >I joined the list this afternoon, [...] ># ># Welcome! ># ># >LRC, my initials (and part of my destiny to be an Electrical Engineer, ># ># :-) Twenty-five years since those classes and, amazingly enough, I got ># the joke. > >Then you may appreciate that a friend suggest a nomme du net that I've >used off and on: "Henry O. Farad". > ># >[...] I've never shot a Canon SLR that "felt good in my hands". ># ># I feel the same way about Glock pistols. Nice equipment, doesn't fit my ># hand. > >I find so much of the pleasure of photography to be the experience of >shooting. One of the things I like about my limiteds so much is the >way that they feel. > ># Uhn-huh. You have been "enabled". /Waaaayyyyy/ enabled. It /does/ get ># worse. :-) > >It's cheaper than the hobby that I'm taking a financial hiatus from: >http://red4est.com/miata >http://red4est.com/jasmine > >If I look at it realistically a weekend of racing costs about $600 by >the time the smoke clears. For that, I could buy a pretty nice lens >every month and still come out ahead. Problem is that's the sort of >logic that gets me saving way more money that I can afford. > >Someone recently threw out references to peso and paw, my guess is >that they're acronyms. > >What are the rules about listing stuff for sale or trade on the list? > >Any other social conventions I should know lest I put my foot in it? > ># -- ># Thanks, ># DougF (KG4LMZ) -- I want to die peacfuly in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming like the passengers in his car... Anon, (AFAIK) -- 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.
