OT: Who Are You ?

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 (

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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.

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

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: 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

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

Because who else uses USENET anymore?

w

Good point! ___________ Mike Petro

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

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

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 Darjeel> I don't know about the rest of you, but I thought it'd be interesting to

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.

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

Toci here. Dorothy if grandmother goddesses annoy you. Kansas City, Mo., born in Chicago. My daughter, son, and grandson live with me. Retired. I study theology, literature, and anthropology, the last my grandson's field. Teas-all organic now- Assam fannings for early morning, Ceylon, Nilgiri, or leafy Assams for late morning. For afternoon I rotate greens, Sencha about half the time, or oolongs. I have once tasted a puer that tasted like library paste. I have given up on whites and Darjeelings because they just taste like weak tea- I probably should have started them when my taste buds were fresher. Toci

mmmm, but some of us have probably been in that game for far too long - I can't seem to keep up with the younger computer-heads these days !

Drinking and learning about fine tea provides me with a most welcome diversion from the noise and stresses of running a Data Centre.

Cheers Mal Oz

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Well I found that interesting - yes, the number of respondants in the IT game was a surprise (to me anyway). During the past 30 years in that industry I found myself drinking copious amounts of coffee - lots of long hours. I find now that I generally work less and more regular hours and tea gives me the lift I need. And I do believe that a few cups of a nice TGY or similar in the morning after I arrive 'sets me up' for the day.

Having said that, I still need that cup of instant first thing after waking (yes, I hear you all cringing).

Anyway, back to the tea....

Cheers Mal Oz

Oooh, yes I cringe, not because of the coffee, but because of the "instant". Coffee is a perfectly acceptable beverage, if prepared well.

I too drink coffee in the morning, two double-shots of espresso every workday morning while watching HNN. However it is the real McCoy using a Rancillio espresso machine (Rocky & Sylvia) and grinding my own beans for each shot.

Then, once kick started, it's tea for the rest of the day. On weekends I start with a Japanese green of some sort. It gives me the same kick- start but in a more relaxed scale of time.

Mike

I have gotten into roasting my own beans actually...not lots of them but some. It's fun! Makes the house smell nice.

I was trying to drink cooked puer in the morning but it doens't have that acidity that I personally need to cut through my stuffiness when I wake up. Tea doesn't do it either unless it's (from childhood colds) instant lemon tea mix like Nestle or Tetley's or something.

Melinda