I don't know about the rest of you, but I thought it'd be interesting to
know a little more about the posters on this group. Totally voluntary of
course as I understand that privacy is a valued commodity these days. So
perhaps just a few lines - sort of a mini-bio would be interesting. As I
said totally voluntary....

I'll start off...

Name: Mal
Origin: London, England
Living: Perth, Western Australia, since '72
Vintage: 1957
Wife: Yes
Kids: 2, all grown up and left the coop
Obsessions: Tea, Wine, music, model trains
Job: Data Centre Manager
Favorite Tea: 1993 Menghai 7542 (so far...)

anybody else care to bite ?

Cheers
Mal
Oz

anybody else care to bite ?

Sure, why not....

Name: Mike
Origin: Shamokin Pennsylvania
Residence: Martinsville, Virginia
Vintage: 1958
Wife: Yes (15 years)
Kids: No, unless you count my fish, dogs, and cats
Obsessions: Tea, Gourmet Food, Gardening, Kites, Computer Mods, Home
Automation, Home Theater, Aquariums in general and African Chiclids
in particular, plus my Hobby Du-Jour
Job: Electrical, Automation, and IT Manager
Favorite Tea: 1970s Grand Yellow Label ( http://tinyurl.com/pecz8 )

I'm more interested in what someone knows about tea than their bio.
You can glean some of the personal info over the long haul. It's like
striptease, a little at a time is better than all at once unless there
is a two drink minimum. Does anyone know of a good proxy server where
I can drop off my IP address for browsing? I'll trust that server
more than web masters sitting around monitoring hits.

Jim

PS I haven't seen any posts from MP in awhile. Used book stores are
great places to find interesting foreigh press Chinese grammar books.
I found a Japanese dictionary first published in 1890 and reprinted
1950. There are over 100 entries that start with cha related Kana and
Kanji terms. A few are Kana only. I came across a wonderful history
book about China published in Peking from a translation. At first I
thought it stange people,places,events in English with no Chinese till
I saw the wonderful index in the back with the characters. Italic in
the text means entries in the index. It does cause eye strain because
there is so much of it.


On Mar 19, 6:16 am, "Mal from Oz" wrote:
I don't know about the rest of you, but I thought it'd be interesting to
know a little more about the posters on this group. Totally voluntary of
course as I understand that privacy is a valued commodity these days. So
perhaps just a few lines - sort of a mini-bio would be interesting. As I
said totally voluntary....

My name is Maurice
Residence Zimbabwe Africa( Born There) Still reside there.
Educated in england and USA,
Hobbys :Passion for bass fishing, love dogs. enjoy traveling,
Listening to a variety of good music on high end studio monitors ,and
enjoy cooking.
Work: I am one of the Directors of the Levy family Business envolving
several diversified companies and just entered business in the tea
world as well about eight months ago, used to farm pop corn and maize
in Zim till we were evicted by the goverement
I am still single (no children that I know of)
My favourite tea so far Lung Ching 2005 I am sure I will upgarde as I
taste more tea
Currrently in Uk and On my way Back home and then on to China to
attend the canton Fair and visit some factories and plantations.
Maurice

On Mar 19, 5:16 am, "Mal from Oz" wrote:
I don't know about the rest of you, but I thought it'd be interesting to
know a little more about the posters on this group. Totally voluntary of
course as I understand that privacy is a valued commodity these days. So
perhaps just a few lines - sort of a mini-bio would be interesting. As I
said totally voluntary....

I'll start off...

Name: Mal
Origin: London, England
Living: Perth, Western Australia, since '72
Vintage: 1957
Wife: Yes
Kids: 2, all grown up and left the coop
Obsessions: Tea, Wine, music, model trains
Job: Data Centre Manager
Favorite Tea: 1993 Menghai 7542 (so far...)

anybody else care to bite ?

Cheers
Mal
Oz

Name: Shen
Origin: New York City
Living: Northern California, Berkeley (for the time being)
Vintage: very mellow, a good year
Husband: rocker/architect - still putting up with me
Obsessions: tea, wine, food, cooking, painting, writing, well-being,
Buddhism, beauty, Tibet, China, Southeast Asia, India, Italy
Work: N.D., medical intuitive, teacher, writer, artist
Favourite tea(s): pu-erh, particularly, silver or purple buds; also,
MengHai Factory 8582, 1994; "Tek's Special Ti Guan Yin" (Chado);
Yunnan Golden Tips, Oriental Beauty (Dragon Tea House), Big Red Robe
(Dragon Tea House) - for now

Name: Karsten
Origin: Cologne/Germania
Living: traveling between the arctic and the Himalayas
Vintage: Wood dragon
Wife: nope
Kids: myself
Obsessions: Tea, pipe smoking, traveling, exploring the elements
[scuba diving, flying, long-distance hikes], cooking, painting,
Buddhism, I Ging, my jobs, doing-everything-myself, getting lost in
the process, ...
Work: med./environmental engineer, naturopath, freelance writer,
tea ... [in progress]
Favorite tea: variety [DJ oolongs, seconds, autumns, almost everything
from Yunnan, all kinds of Oolongs, rose teas, Earl Greys, ...]

I´m currently in Germania, taking care of my granny [84] who fell sick
last year. Now that she´s back on track I´m looking forward to get the
hell out of here and return to my beloved Darjeeling.
Wish me luck folks.

Cheers, Karsten

Name: Lew
Origin: New York, NY, USA
Living: Same place lifelong, except for traveling and one miserable
year in ... oh, never mind.
Vintage: Ding1 Hai4
Wife: She's the wife; I'm the hubby.
Kids: Me, and there's Buster, the cat who smells like young sheng
Obsessions: Tea, music, programming, Chinese, the thought of
eventually becoming an old guy like Elliott Carter
Work: Programming
Favorite tea: I think it's Qi Jing Bian Zhen, but I haven't had an
opportunity to taste it in a *long* time.

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

On Mar 19, 12:35 pm, Lewis Perin wrote:
Name: Lew
Origin: New York, NY, USA
Living: Same place lifelong, except for traveling and one miserable
year in ... oh, never mind.
Vintage: Ding1 Hai4
Wife: She's the wife; I'm the hubby.
Kids: Me, and there's Buster, the cat who smells like young sheng
Obsessions: Tea, music, programming, Chinese, the thought of
eventually becoming an old guy like Elliott Carter
Work: Programming
Favorite tea: I think it's Qi Jing Bian Zhen, but I haven't had an
opportunity to taste it in a *long* time.

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /

I find it ineteresting that so many computer-heads are on this and
other tea lists. Just a thought.
Shen

On 2007-03-19, Shen wrote:

I find it ineteresting that so many computer-heads are on this and
other tea lists. Just a thought.

Because who else uses USENET anymore?

w

I find it ineteresting that so many computer-heads are on this and
other tea lists. Just a thought.

Because who else uses USENET anymore?

w

Good point!
___________
Mike Petro
http://www.pu-erh.net

I'm just this guy that lives in Virginia that likes to drink tea. Mostly
I like to drink China black teas, but sometimes I'll drink Indian and Ceylon
black teas. I'll occasionally drink darker oolongs, and I will drink green
teas in the afternoon sometimes.

I liked Darjeelings the way they were when I was a kid, but they are much
too green for me today. The appeal of pu ehr totally escapes me.

Most of the time I drink panyong congou or some other mid-grade Fujian black
for daily drinking. I'm on travel in Ohio right now, and drinking Needwood
Uva-grown Ceylon black in bags... I like the lower altitude Ceylons more but
this is all I have in bags and getting loose tea through airline security
has been an issue for me in the past.

I don't think people should put milk in their teas, but I am willing to
close my eyes when they do and I even keep UHT milk in the kitchen for
when such people come over. THEY tend to get the Uva Ceylon teas which
do better in milk.

My wife likes to drink mango-flavoured Ceylon black, but I love her anyway.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Shen wrote:

I find it ineteresting that so many computer-heads are on this and
other tea lists. Just a thought.

That speaks more of the general population of Usenet than anything else.
You'll find most Usenet people have at least some technical computer
background and the average population is a good bit older than the net
at large these days. I think that is mainly because Usenet is no longer
the huge draw it once was in the days before the 'web, and so it is not
bringing new people in as quickly as the existing users age.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Name: Aloke
Grew up in India (Calcutta). Came to US for graduate studies 23 yrs ago.
Settled here in Central Ohio since then.

Grew up with 2 types of tea: Mom and the house staff preferred CTC
boiled and with milk. Dad used Green Label brewed in a tea pot.

I am a hard core Darjeeling black tea fan. I buy the stuff locally at
Indian grocery stores or mostly by mail order these days.

Mal from Oz wrote:
I don't know about the rest of you, but I thought it'd be interesting to
know a little more about the posters on this group. Totally voluntary of
course as I understand that privacy is a valued commodity these days. So
perhaps just a few lines - sort of a mini-bio would be interesting. As I
said totally voluntary....

I'll start off...

Name: Mal
Origin: London, England
Living: Perth, Western Australia, since '72
Vintage: 1957
Wife: Yes
Kids: 2, all grown up and left the coop
Obsessions: Tea, Wine, music, model trains
Job: Data Centre Manager
Favorite Tea: 1993 Menghai 7542 (so far...)

anybody else care to bite ?

Cheers
Mal
Oz

Name: Danica
Origin: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Living: Los Angeles, since '94
Vintage: Metal Dog
Husband: No
Kids: no human ones, but a beautiful tabby cat named Harley, and my
boyfriend's black pug Monty
Obsessions/ interest: Tea, fashion, collecting, meditation, genius,
human psychology, art of living is the heading i suppose
Job: Film Producer, making my first right now. What a journey!
Favorite Tea: So many. It's all about what mood I'm in. At work I
like taiwanese oolongs because they are easy to brew in a gaiwan. At
home I get more fancy. I have a lot of puerh teas, some fine ones,
but I'm not drinking them so much right now. The urge to collect
becomes too great...

The Los Angeles tea drinkers are a lot of computer-heads too! I love
it. Smart, sensitive, interesting people.

"Mal from Oz" wrote:
I don't know about the rest of you, but I thought it'd be interesting to
know a little more about the posters on this group. Totally voluntary of
course as I understand that privacy is a valued commodity these days. So
perhaps just a few lines - sort of a mini-bio would be interesting. As I
said totally voluntary....

Name: Nick
Origin: da Bronx, USA
Living: North Hollywoodm CA, USA, since 1961
Vintage: 1935
Wife: Yes
Kids: many, most grown up and left the coop
Obsessions: Tea, Wine, Whisky, Golf, Guns, BBQ
Job: Retired for 9 years ;-)
Favorite Tea: Genmaicha

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