Archive for October 29th, 1999

Dear Lynn: Good Night

Friday, October 29th, 1999

Hi  [Lynn].

Just catching up on your email from days past.

No, haven’t read much British fiction lately.

*yawn* I am so sleepy. Almost time for bed.

What fiction is on the bedside reading table? Well, none. I used to own several books by Robin Cook (he writes tech horror fiction such as Coma, Fever, The God Player, and Harmful Intent), Stephen King, Robert Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land, Friday, and Starship Trooper), and Larry Niven (Ring World and Lucifer’s Hammer). However, I sold all these prior to the Philly move, to lighten the load. The books I have now are primarily web and computer-related. However, you’ll find some cookbooks, writing books, dictionaries, thesauri, and exercise publications around here too. I subscribe to Computer Shopper.

Thanks for the high tea explanation. Sounds like a healthier ritual over all, than the American ways of eating. :-)

On Smith and female engineers: Well, if they can do the work, anybody should be allowed to engineer. Lots of competent ladies doing software engineering at the company I work for. Engineering and ladies seem like a natural fit to me. Women divide and conquer very well. :-)

Well, I’m off to bed. Take care and talk to you tomorrow.

Tom Hesley

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LView Pro Tid Bits: 1999-10-29

Friday, October 29th, 1999

Good evening,   [Lynn].

Where are you tonight?

Just reading about an image editor (LView Pro) that I bought almost two years ago, but am only just now learning the finer points of. The wedding pics need a bit of massaging and this software should be able to perform the necessary modifications on them. Some of them had very pronounced red-eye. Getting the flash away from the camera should solve that in future pics.

Never did go out tonight – except to 7-11 for some milk. But will be out and about all day tomorrow. Dinner with friends tomorrow night.

Whatcha up to this weekend?

Don’t forget to set your clock back an hour on Sunday morning at 2:00 AM. :-) Yep, it’s that time of year again. I bet, being as far north as you are, you have some really short days in December, and really long days in June.

Later.
Tom Hesley

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Dear Lynn: On Variety

Friday, October 29th, 1999

Hey   [Lynn],

Variety, according to the old saw, is the spice of life. However, it can become a weakness, when, in order to maintain it, one becomes financially or emotionally overburdened. Nope, no weakness here. :-)

Each one of those email readers has advantages that, in some situations make it really shine. Unfortunately, no one reader does it all. :-)

Was going to visit the store earlier. But the ‘power nap’ turned into a 500000 megawatt marathon doze session, from which I’m only just now arising. Will probably just end up getting a fresh start early tomorrow morning, and shopping then.

Catch you a bit later.

Tom Hesley

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What ‘Inline Pictures’ Are

Friday, October 29th, 1999

Hi   [Lynn].

By ‘inline’, I meant a picture that appears along within the text of the email message, as opposed to a separate attachment file that you have to open in order to view. Microsoft calls these items ‘embedded objects’. And because these picture objects can appear alongside or with the text flow, you can make an email message that reads more like a newspaper or a web site. But I guess the email systems between us convert these objects to attachments during email transit. Ah well.

The hand is much better today. I must type very lightly though, until it fully heals.

You worked outside today. Lucky you. You must be an athletic sort of person.

On the scanner: Yes, I can wait.

Thought I might visit the book stores tonight. It’s been almost two weeks since the last visit after all. :-) Not sure yet though.

I’m very sleepy today so I might take a power nap before leaving.

Enjoy your evening, and will talk to you again, soon.

Later,
Tom Hesley

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I Have Eudora 4.2 Now

Friday, October 29th, 1999

Dear   [Lynn],

Hey,

I now have Eudora 4.2 installed and configured. It makes sending those pics a much less manual process than I was using last night. So, look to be getting lots more. :-)

Hmm, let’s see. Now, I have over seven email readers: Netscape Communicator, Eudora, Outlook Express, Outlook, Emacs, mailto, mailx, Lotus Notes Mail, . . . Wow, can one ever have enough email readers? Oh, in case you haven’t guessed by now, data packaging involves delivery of that data, to many different email platforms. So us software engineering types need to be familiar with the various email systems, and this is why I maintain skill sets on all of these.

Well, I’m off to a teleconference.

Later,
Tom Hesley

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