I guess I forgot the smiley on the good ol' days. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I am not sure if the good old days you describe were really that
> good. Or rather, I am pretty sure they were awful.
>
> At our office we have several social clubs: the ski club Avalanche,
> the wine club Bacchus, etc. The ski club organizes trips to ski
> resorts in Sierra Nevada and Andorra, the wine club has a monthly
> wine tasting like the one tonight. It starts at 6 pm, usually it is a
> wine merchant or producer who comes to show its wines to an audience
> of well-paid winos. Afterwards, we eat and finish the bottles. It is
> all very Mediterranean and very civilized.
>
> Thanks for looking!
>
> Nathan
>
> On 22 Apr, 2010, at 23:48 , Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> I have to smile when I see something like a "wine tasting at our
>> office". I started working for IBM in 1965 when the company (at
>> least in the US) could rightfully be called a "tee-totaler". Even
>> serving alcohol at a company sponsored social function (let alone
>> the office) was totally verboten. It was different in Europe and
>> elsewhere but it remained that way in the US at IBM facilities
>> until I retired in 1995. But at least it had softened to the point
>> of serving beer or wine at social functions sometime, IIRC, in the
>> 80s.
>>
>> I still have very vivid memories of attending an awards ceremony in
>> a large hotel in New York City about 1974. The speaker was an IBM
>> vice-president everyone called "Buck" Rodgers. Before Buck
>> arrived the hotel decided to open a cash bar in the back of the
>> dining room. When Buck arrived he strode immediately to the
>> podium, pointed at the cash bar and said: "If this is an IBM
>> function you'd better close that bar. If this is not an IBM
>> function I have better things to do." Needless to say, the bar was
>> closed down immediately.
>>
>> The reason that IBM was a tee-totaling company was that the
>> founder, Tom Watson Sr., was a tee-totaler. My father-in-law (an
>> IBM'er also starting from the late 30s) used to tell me that in the
>> 1920s (when IBM was still very small and had no facilities outside
>> of Endicott, NY) Tom Sr. used to review the employee's canceled pay
>> checks. If he found one that had been cashed in a bar he'd fire
>> the guy.
>>
>> I have many more stories like that but no way to tell if they're
>> really urban legend. Ah, the good ol' days.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>>> We have had some conversations about bokeh on both the Leica and
>>> Olympus lists recently, so today's picture from a wine tasting at
>>> our office seems a propos:
>>>
>>> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#844840551_byxLv-O-LB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The wine was from Catalunya, from the mountains near Andorra, and
>>> was absolutely fantastic.
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>> Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu
>>> http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com
>>>
>>> Books:
>>> http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image
>>> licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman
>>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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> Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com
>
> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing:
> http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog:
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>
>
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