A Conversation with Elizabeth
1999
Re: Interesting Article

From:          LMixson
To:            Elizabeth
Sent:          Wednesday, March 31, 1999 9:45 AM
Subject:       Re: Interesting Article
 
That was interesting about the guy from Gainesville, I'll have to look him up in my year book.  He would have been a year or two behind me.  I have heard of his company, Phar Lap Software, I believe I have used some of their software in the past.  There was a real interesting article in the Post today about Joseph P. Firmage.  He is this guy who made it big in the web craze, making several hundred million.  A year or two ago he had some vision and quit his job being the CEO of his company and now is promoting that we (the people of planet earth) are on the verge of some major changes, discovery of anti-gravity, contact with aliens and so forth.  He has got a lot of press the past few months (Wired had an article about him).  He just published a book called "The Word is Truth" but a condensed version (244 pages) is online and can be downloaded from his web site.  You might want to check it out. http://www.thewordistruth.org it is quite interesting.  Not much else going on here, still waiting for the new contract to start which should be next week or two.  Larry

In the article it said the president of Phar Lap Software was Richard M. Smith who was 45 in 1999 and that he took computer courses at the University of Florida in the early 70’s.  I got out my Gainesville High School yearbook and there was a Richard Smith listed as a Junior in 1970. (I was a senior) I don’t know if it is the Richard Smith in the article.

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