[meteorite-list] Stupid Blog and people with no lives

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Apr 30 15:01:40 2005
Message-ID: <021801c54db5$4081e0c0$6101a8c0_at_launchmodem.com>

Hello Everyone,

I have been busy lately and I am just catching up on reading
emails.

>My new focus
> will be my and my family's happiness,

I, for one, applaud Mike's efforts. He, and other dealers
have provided collectors and scientists with
numerous specimens that would have otherwise gone
undiscovered or at least discovered at later times.

Now, it sounds like Mike wants to take it easy a little
more. Well, bravo to you. You deserve it. You took some
risks, built a successful business, made some contributions, and
you have your priorities in order.

Who could ask for more?

(well, maybe a book detailing your adventures)

-Walter



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 1:04 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Stupid Blog and people with no lives


> Dean and all.
> That Blog is a total waste of time unless you are a total loser who enjoys
> gossip and lies meant to do nothing but cause harm to other people. I have
> been attacked in every way possible there, as have just about every other
> dealer and collector known.
> Also at issue, we have some people in a tight spot in a Middle Eastern
> country, and idiots on there are calling for them to be beheaded. We are
not
> children, we are (mostly) adults. This kind of thing is meant for
adolescent
> immature people who can not interact with humans any way other then using
> fake names to harass people.
> I have to read some of it as people are always calling me telling me
the
> newest BS written about me.
> The latest topic is why I am selling my collection and that I am in
> meteorites for nothing but the money.
> What a crock of crap. The people in meteorites for the money do not have
> collections that rival many museums. I have worked so hard for so many
years
> to build what I have from absolutely nothing. I did not come in with a
> million $$$ and build an instant collection. It went from a shoebox to a
> larger box, to a glass case sitting on my desk next to my computer to a
> larger case, to a wall case, to a collection room, now to TWO collection
> rooms!
> I did all this through my own perseverance, and willingness to take risks
> and put every cent I had in my pocket and fly to other countries to try
and
> get new falls. Which I did many times. Now, after acquiring one Lunar
> meteorite, 3 martian meteorites, and find a new Lunar meteorite myself, I
> get so much grief from people that I cant take it anymore. go read the
blog
> if you don't know what I mean, or read Matteo's emails, or the other
drivel
> on this list. It is getting old, so I am changing the direction of my life
> (as if that is anyone's business). Yet on the blog there are already
entire
> topics devoted to slamming Dean and I.
> The meteorite market has been picking up very fast, sales are up,
prices
> are coming up, and supply is definitely falling off. I am not leaving the
> business, just changing priorities. For the last 8 years, my entire #1
> priority was the acquisition of meteorites for my collection. My new focus
> will be my and my family's happiness, meteorites will be a portion of
that,
> but much smaller.
> In doing this, I will not have to be concerned about what people say to
try
> and harm me, it will be a nuisance, not a crisis.
> My first suggestion is that people mind their own business and leave
me
> and Dean and anyone else no related to you out of your life. My issues are
> not your issues (unless you have no life). My second suggestion is that
> everyone boycott the blog. It will die on it's own without people reading
it
> and responding to it. I am done, say what you wish on there, it just
proves
> how useless your own lives are.
> Everyone can stop calling me about it, I am no longer interested in the
> "National Enquirer" of the meteorite world.
> A real man (or woman) for that matter, would say what they have to say
> to the subjects face, and use their own name to do it.
> Mike Farmer
>
>
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Received on Sat 30 Apr 2005 02:48:51 PM PDT