But so few people make a good meatloaf these days anyway... Shel Belinkoff wrote:
>Gawd yes! (remembering slide shows of certain friends' vacations) There >was ~always~ one or the other standing rigidly in front of some tourist >attraction or scene. And the narrative, with every slide, would be "This >is Cathy standing in front of ..." "Here's Ron in front of ..." as if we, >the captive viewers, didn't know who these people were <sigh> > >Now we get a DVD movie that's more of the same, only with music in the >background and repetitious dissolves and fades. Just a more high-tech >version of the slide show. With the slide shows, we'd have to visit their >house and usually get dinner beforehand. Now we just get a disk in the >mail. Technology marches on - creativity remains stagnant - dinner >disappears. > >Shel > > > > > >>[Original Message] >>From: William Robb >> >> > > > >>For most people, photographs are memory joggers. They don't really want to >>see the person or the place depicted, they want to remember the fun that >> >> >was > > >>had at that place, with that person. The photograph is the tool used to >>remind them. >>This is why slide shows of other people's vacations are so very hard to >> >> >sit > > >>through, and why people rarely show much interest in snapshots of people >>they don't know, or places they haven't been. >> >> > > > > > -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net