A Conversation with Elizabeth
1998
Re: Types & Connections

From           lmixson@pec.com
To:            'Elizabeth ' 
Date:          Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:14:14 -0500
Subject:       RE: Types & connections
 
I got back from the computer show[1] and found your message waiting so thought I would spend a couple of minutes and reply. The show was fun and I picked up some good information along with a lot of "toys". The vendors like to give away pens, balls, CDs, keychains, and many other things. One vendor had Whoopie Goldberg at their booth and you could get your picture taken with her. I skipped it. After walking around for three hours I didn't have the energy to walk the 3/4 mile down to the tidal basin and see the cherry blossoms. The blossoms are both pink and white as there are two different types of trees. China gave the US the first trees many years ago and since then hundreds more have been planted all around the basin, Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument. It is quite beautiful to walk around the basin and monuments under the trees. Towards the end the blossoms start to fall and it is like a snow of petals.
              
                        Cherry Blossoms at the Tidle Basin
                                    Photo from 1994
 
On the way down I remembered my Myers Briggs type was INTP. When I got back I took the test (thanks for the pointers to the site) and again "scored" an INTP.[2]
 
I will have to search out Boogie nights from home because doing so from work can be trouble. If someone saw something "sexual" on the screen then it can be grounds for dismissal.
 
Half X rated dreams about me, hmmm, that's seems intriguing. Was only half the dream x rated or is 1/2 x more like R rated? Anyway I do find it fascinating and interesting how quickly we have become "close" to each other after so many years of not hearing from each other.
 
I just had another "reconnection" to someone I once new. I was checking my email on CompuServe and found a message from a guy that used to work for me several years ago at ICL. His message was announcing that he and his wife just had a new baby girl. He left before they laid everyone off and moved with his wife to Washington to work for Microsoft. He says he works on the Microsoft Outlook product which is what I am using now to write this message. In addition to that I am looking at imaging products for my new job and two guys I used to work for at DynCorp now work in the imaging group at Eastman (Kodak) so I called them up and may be doing some business with them. It must be the year for reconnecting.
 
If you can hear music when you visit web sites then you must have speakers and a sound card. I spent a lot of time the last few months at my last job visiting web sites that had sound and video. There are actually hundreds of radio stations through out the U.S. and world that broadcast their stations on the web. Likewise there are a lot of video sites. I used to watch FOX news on the web. You need to download the RealAudio and RealVideo player add-ons for your web browser (see www.real.com).[3]

I checked out the Cyber Law Journal on the NYT, looks interesting. I'll bookmark it so I can check it out on a more regular basis.
 
Well that's all for now.
 
Larry

[1] The FOSE, a Federal government technical convention, was at the Washington DC convention center which had several vendor booths about document imagining so my new company said I could go.
[2] The Myers Briggs type INTP is Introversion-Intuition-Thinking-Perceiving which has the description “Intellectual, logical, precise, reserved, flexible, imaginative. Original thinkers who enjoy speculation and creative problem solving.”  Yes, sounds like me. Elizabeth said she also was INT but didn’t say what the last letter was. I took the test again ten or so years later and my “I” Introversion was significantly less then when I first took the test.
[3] At this time (1998) web browsers did not have the ability to play music or videos built into the browser so you had to install a extension or add-on to the browser to play them. The “Real” add-on was one of the most popular.

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