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Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 14/1/2021: a blast from a very distant past, or "when I had hair"
From: Wayne Shumaker <om3ti@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 06:00:52 -0700
At 1/14/2021 01:45 PM, Nathan wrote:

>One of the many gifts Santa brought my wife this Christmas was an Epson 
>scanner designed to scan standard drugstore family photos in bulk. You pop in 
>a stack of photos (up to 30, I think), press a button, and let it rip. My wife 
>has long wanted to digitize the many old photos we have, and she loves the 
>scanner?for once, a piece of equipmeent that actually works as advertised. 
>Among the old photos she came across this gem from 1978, before we had even 
>met. It was my senior year of high school in Denmark, and I was taking Russian 
>as my third foreign language (English and German were mandatory, but you could 
>choose Russian, French or Spanish as the third one). It was customary to make 
>a weeklong trip to the country whose language you were studying, so we went 
>for a week to Moscow and Leningrad (today St. Petersburg). I have no idea who 
>took this photo on the plane from Copenhagen to Moscow, and it is technically 
>horrible, but it is still a nice reminder of the time when I was young and the 
>world looked like an open road:
>
>https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-mTzn2Pr/A
>
>Cheers,
>Nathan

Cool. I can't make out the universities. Does one say Ohio state and ?. And 
nice hand gesture. Were you into biking back then?

WayneS
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