I'm not trying to blame anyone Joe. My biggest issue was that overload of e-mail we all must contend with from all the various sources and I chose that moment to be a whiner. I delete a significant portion of the posts anyway as I know they won't interest me. :-)
You all can say anything you like on the list, I've always been a proponent of that. However sometimes it can get a little silly. What if everytime someone displayed a photo and it was commented on, they posted an individual thank you to each and every person that made a comment? That does happen sometimes. We can easily fill up bandwidth, both electronic and human with relatively meaningless chatter that has nothing to do with photography or is utterly trivial, and it can become burdensome at times. And no Jostein, as I said, my motivation wasn't to bring any one down. I was simply feeling some frustration with the level of idle banter I was having to handle. Tom On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > Really, folks, I should be blamed, as I believe I started this some months > ago, under extreme pressure from my various calendars and FaceBook, My > Heritage, Ancestor.com, my own Address Book, all of whom batter me daily > with colorful reminders regards anyone's birthday that may be coming up in > the next few days or weeks. > > So I caved, and wished a few PDML'rs a happy, and others chimed in, and so > on. I've had to cut my birthday wishes down now to only pretty young female > relatives who frankly could give a good shit about their portly old uncle, > thrice removed by marriage. > > Try to be nice. Try to be friendly. Try to be social. > You will be dumped upon by the type 'A's... :-) > > P.S. I like Tom. I like astronomy. I even have great respect for Mark. > And a modicum of respect for everyone else who takes the time to be > here. > > P.P.S. This does not, however, release any of you denisons of the US of A > from celebrating my birthday, this year, and every year, even after I'm long > gone to ash that you and yours will be inhaling and coughing from, as you > celebrate the Fourth of July (welling music here) and the birth of me. > > (rough draft written with a Pentax pen prior to typing into my Mac as a > qualification to PDML) :-) > > By the way, did any of you, as did I, have to try out a couple of Pentax > pens at the K-7 tour meetings to find one that worked? Hoya QC? > > On Sep 29, 2009, at 01:13 , AlunFoto wrote: > >> Paradoxically, I was under the impression that Cakalic himself had >> friends on this list. If memory serves me right, he has even presented >> the list with photos of meetings with them. >> >> Tom, if it it bothers you so that other people have friends which they >> wish greetings to on their birthdays, then I suggest you apologise in >> public for bothering us with your own posting of cameraderie. >> >> It may please you to know that whatever your motivation posting the >> below, it didn't succed bringing me down. But I think bringing people >> down was precisely your intent. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted to >> let us know that you had deleted the even worse things you originally >> planned to say. >> >> We have been antagonists before, Tom. Welcome back. >> >> Jostein >> >> 2009/9/29 Tom Cakalic <caka...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> I'm not meaning to bring anyone down, but seriously, at least >>> semi-seriously, all these birthday announcements... everyone is born >>> within a 366 span of time by the Gregorian calendar. >>> >>> I could say more and just erased a bunch of blather which would make >>> you dislike me more than this post... >>> >>> but who cares? >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I ain't no cat, but I was born on Sept 16th ;-). >>>> >>>> Thanks, Bong, Tim and Bob S! >>>> >>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:27 AM, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> My cat, Ashley, is Sept 16th :) >>>>> >>>>> ann >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Boris > > Joseph McAllister > pentax...@mac.com > > I couldn't remember most of what I know today > if it weren't for others sharing their knowledge > of my past on the Internet. Thank you… > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
