RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2004-01-07 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
- -- -- -- -- >From: "Cesar Matamoros II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- >Subject: RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best -- photography novel?) -- >Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 23:08:18 -0500 -- > -- >Frank, --

RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2004-01-03 Thread frank theriault
: "Cesar Matamoros II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 23:08:18 -0500 Frank, I got the same response for a friend today. She used to lurk on the li

RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2004-01-02 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
Frank, I got the same response for a friend today. She used to lurk on the list, but does not have the time to anymore... I was helping her remove a CPC brand lens that was stuck on her MZ-5. Finally got it off. Then I let her use the *ist D to test out some Pentax M lenses she got from ebay.

RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2004-01-01 Thread Butch Black
snip Around here I am usually introduced as a photographer. Happened once as I was with Minolta Girl at a wine/art fest at a gallery. A mutual photographer friend introduced me to one of her friends as a photographer. Well Minolta Girl had to speak up to say she was a photographer too! We still

RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-31 Thread Cotty
On 31/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >Actually I am an electrical engineer by education. A field engineer. More >so, a radar engineer, though I consider myself as a systems engineer with as >much as I get into and know. > >It usually surprises people when I tell them. I wonder why... > >Ar

RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-31 Thread frank theriault
s II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:10:05 -0500 Do you mean for money? :-) Actually I am an electrical engineer by education. A field engineer.

RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-31 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
Do you mean for money? :-) Actually I am an electrical engineer by education. A field engineer. More so, a radar engineer, though I consider myself as a systems engineer with as much as I get into and know. It usually surprises people when I tell them. I wonder why... Around here I am usually

RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-31 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
I know Eleanor. She is too sweet. I would spare her life :-) Reminds me that I should answer her post, César Panama City, Florida -- -Original Message- -- From: Bill Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 11:57 PM -- -- If he tells you, he'll have to kill y

Re: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-31 Thread Anthony Farr
Mark, That sort of work goes against SWMBO's philosophy. Plus, if I'd taken ~that~ job I'd never have met SWMBO, so I won't ever regret passing up the "spook" job. regards, Anthony Farr - Original Message - From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yeah? And how are we all supposed

Re: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-31 Thread Anthony Farr
Frank, If I had ~those~ connections to this day PDML is the last place I'd want to exercise them, OTOH there's a certain neighbour of our's whom I'd have no hesitation in calling the "dogs" onto (vbeg*). regards, Anthony Farr * very big evil grin - Original Message - From: "frank theri

Re: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-30 Thread Bill Owens
If he tells you, he'll have to kill you. :-) Bill - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 11:55 PM Subject: RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?) > Cesar wrote .. > [story a

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2003-12-30 Thread ernreed2
Cesar wrote .. [story about being mistaken for a doctor on the Mayan dig] [story about being identified as a spook on the Mayan dig] [story about being mistaken for a doctor in the hospital] [remarks about having stories from the teaching hospital] OK, Cesar, I give up: What DO you do??? ERN

RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-30 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
-- -Original Message- -- From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 1:02 PM -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Hi, -- -- > P.S. I also have a story of being mistaken for a doctor -- while another -- > friend, in med school at the time, was showing me around -- th

Re: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-30 Thread Bob W
Hi, > P.S. I also have a story of being mistaken for a doctor while another > friend, in med school at the time, was showing me around the hospital where > she was an intern... hmm. Doesn't sound suitable for family viewing. I'm reminded of the scene from one of the old British "Doctor ..." seri

Re: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-30 Thread Mark Roberts
"Anthony Farr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It occured to me that my failure to get the job at the initial interview, >and the ensuing period (of observation?) was in fact the normal procedure, >and I wasn't unsuccessful after all. > >Life could have been vey different for me. Yeah? And how ar

Re: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-30 Thread Leon Altoff
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:18:50 +1100, Anthony Farr wrote: >Back in the late 80s, Australia's intelligence service, ASIO, advertised >(yes! advertised) in the daily papers for photographers. Needing work at >the time I applied, and it was one of the strangest interviews I ever sat, >in a mirror wall

RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2003-12-29 Thread frank theriault
Anthony, It strikes me that perhaps you shouldn't be divulging all of this to this list. Do we all now have to look forward to clicky phone lines and monitored electronic communications? I swear to God, if men in black suits and sunglasses start knocking at my door, or if I find that I'm cons