Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date
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Note: <888> 02/23/04 Monday 6:10 A.M.: I finished going through my email. It says here Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Microsoft Office System 2003 Editions Review that for the copy of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional that I will receive this week that I am allowed to install it on three machines, which is what the Microsoft representative said at the TS2 conference where I got the certificate for it. CIO Note: <888> 02/23/04 Monday 5:20 A.M.: Microsoft Creates a Stir in Its Work With the U.N. . CIO Note: <888> 02/23/04 Monday 5:00 A.M.: During my last couple of years in Manhattan up until February 1982 when it was minus 24 degrees Fahrenheit, my roommate worked as the head of word processing for a prominent lawyer named Cyrus Vance whose office was across the street from the IBM headquarters at Madison Avenue and 57th Street, so I occasionally checked out the bamboo in the lobby of the IBM building. Well back in those days at Polaroid in the summer of 1971, I worked with the computers at the Polaroid film factory on Interstate 128 in Waltham, Massachusetts. I did punch card entry for my programs. I worked with flow sheets, and I also wrote a spread sheet program in Cobol, which worked successfully on the IBM 360 once the data had been entered from the programming sheets into punch cards. That following fall at Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu they gave me 3 course credits for the summer internship program which permitted me to graduate that following June 1972. I needed the three credits, because I had twice flunked Dr. Shockley's course in Quantum Mechanics in advanced calculus, and one other course, which I can not remember at this moment. In presenting the material for the three course credits, I presented all of my work from Polaroid which I had copies of in print outs along with the IBM 360 manuals that taught me how to program in Cobol. Lake Forest College kept the material and never gave it back to me. However, spread sheet programs began to appear out of Borland in Santa Cruz, California around 1982 where a number of my fellow Lake Forest College alumni were working at the time. At the time during the summer internship at Polaroid in the summer of 1971, I was neither an employee of Polaroid or IBM, but I was paid $200 a week as an independent subcontractor working on computers. During that same period I was interested in the chain printers they were using, so I designed a Laser printer which worked with an actual laser beam. I never built a prototype, but I showed the design to Joe Costello who was the head of personnel at Digital Computers. I also back in the summer of 1968 when I was working as a research photographer for Polaroid at Polaroid's research facility on Osborne Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I described in the photography photo laboratory in our office, my concept of X-ray lithography, which supposedly was invented by Intel back in 1965. In the computers offices at that time in 1971, they had 300 baud teletype machines connected to main frames that were part of the original internet that was developed nearby at MIT www.mit.edu . Also at Technology Square near MIT and Osborne street they had the backup computers for NASA. Also across from Osborne Street was the NECCO candy wafer factory. While at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut they had computers, but the individuals involved in the school computer club would not let me use them, but as I recall they were mostly used by the Taft School astronomy club since they had a very good telescope in the science laboratory. Alas at Greenwich Country Day, we did not have computers, but I did spend quite a bit of time in the photography laboratory as a photographer for the school year book. Of course before moving to Greenwich in 1961, I lived nearby Huntsville, Alabama in Decatur, Alabama, so with the NASA people nearby, I played with Gilbert chemistry sets, model electric trains, and I assembled model airplanes out of plastic and balsa wood along with other models of ships. I seem to recall back then reading Popular Mechanics like I did when I was down in the Florida Keys in the mid 1970s. CIO Note: <888> 02/23/04 Monday 4:25 A.M.: I finished watching Kevin Maney talk about Wiley::The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM . Having lived in this area since 1961, I do not need to be reminded that IBM is also a player in this area. I remember when I lived in Key West from October 1976 in the winter through the winters of May 1978, I frequently saw someone with a red LaCoste alligator shirt at tea time in one of the local discothèques in Key West, Florida that I assumed was a retired marine, since he wore a red shirt. He had a military haircut, and a military demeanor like he was a pilot. What I noticed is that the individual had the same look at Thomas Watson Junior, but I never bothered to ask the individual if he were a relative, since a great many senior people in the military seemed to have had the same look. I once attended a debutant party in June 1971 for one of Thomas Watson Junior's daughter, and since I had been programming IBM 360 computers at Polaroid the previous summer with punch cards and code writing sheets, I recognized both Thomas Watson Junior and Arthur Watson. The party was at the roof garden of the St. Regis hotel in Manhattan, where I used to get my hair cut in the basement during the 1973 to 1982 period. I was too shy to chat with them, but I happened to get in the elevator after having a few drinks, and it was one of those old time elevators with a 360 degree operator's lever, and since the elevator operator was not there, I decided to run the elevator, and since I was inexperienced at running the elevator, I gave the occupants the ride of their life which included the two Watson brothers. Thus although I tried to get a job with IBM many times, I guess they remembered their ride, and they never gave me a job with IBM. In the Maney presentation, he says there are no major memorials or buildings named after the Watson family which is incorrect, since they have the Watson Business and Economics Library at Columbia University http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/business/ , the Watson research center at IBM http://www.watson.ibm.com/ , and the new pavilion under construction at the Greenwich Hospital http://www.greenhosp.org/home.asp will be named after them since the family are local residents. On a lesser note, although I received notification from Microsoft Airborne with a tracking number, it does not work with DHL airborne, and although it says it will be two day airborne, it also says 5 to 7 days delivery for the Microsoft Office Suite 2003 Professional package, so I might have to be here to sign for it when it arrives. This might mean that I will have to stay around the apartment during this week until it arrives, since I can not track it. We will have to wait and see what develops. CIO Note: <888> 02/23/04 Monday 2:10 A.M.: After the last message, I drank a 50% Folgers' instant coffee and 50% Folgers' decaffeinated coffee. I chatted with a relative. I went to bed until 1 A.M.. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with raspberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. On book TV on channel 66 on our local cablevision system, there is suppose to be someone on at 2:30 A.M. in 20 minutes talking about Thomas Watson Sr. CIO Note: <888> 02/22/04 Sunday 11:05 A.M.: I rested a bit more. I am a bit bored being inside, so maybe I have Cabin Fever. I guess I will clean up, and I will go out for a little daytime activity. I will now shut down the computer. CIO Note: <888> 02/22/04 Sunday 9:45 A.M.: I also ate a piece of apple pie. I still feel a bit tired. I guess all of the cold that I have endured during the past few months has caught up with me, and I still feel a bit tired. CIO Note: <888> 02/22/04 Sunday 9:25 A.M.: I rested since the last message. I also chatted with a friend. I am microwaving a Maria Calendar 14 ounce chicken tenders dinner, which I will eat shortly with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 02/22/04 Sunday 5:30 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO Note: <888> 02/22/04 Sunday 5:20 A.M.: CNN.com - Spot, spaniel born in first Bush White House, dies - Feb. 21, 2004 . CIO Note: <888> 02/22/04 Sunday 5:10 A.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of a can of tuna fish, I used a 4.25 ounce can crumbled Bumble Bee pink crab. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker barrel baby Swiss cheese. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. Note: <888> 02/22/04 Sunday 3:55 A.M.: Wired News: Russia Tests New Wonder Weapon . CIO Note: <888> 02/22/04 Sunday 3:15 A.M.: Russia Tests Missile That Could Evade U.S. Defense . CIO Note: <888> 02/22/04 Sunday 3:05 A.M.: I had the tiny screw fall out of my reading glasses. The right ear piece became detached. I was able to find the tiny screw on the dining room table place mat where I had placed my eye glasses. I reinserted and tightened the tiny screw along with the screw on the left ear piece, so now my reading glasses are secure for a while. I keep two sets of eye glass screw drivers on my dining room table, along with some spare tiny screws. They are available by the cash registers at the Food Emporium, which is not opened all night on weekends. CIO Note: <888> 02/22/04 Sunday 2:40 A.M.: Well, I noticed the original movie Robin Hood was on television tonight on the Turner movie channel. When I first returned here over 20 years ago from living in Manhattan and Nantucket, I said I would try to be the sheriff of Sherwood Forest. Well, I have partially succeeded in that occasionally I spend time around the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop on Sherwood Place. The local youth in this rural environment tend to be like Robin Hood and his merry band of woodsmen compared to their more urban cousins whom occasionally venture out into this forested area. Of course the Big City Slickers are well known for their own escapades. We do have an archery practice range at the Montgomery Pineum reserve. I even have a Swiss cross bow in my apartment that I bought at the ELDC thrift shop for about $5 about 15 years ago. Alas I have no arrows for the cross bow. Still, I will keep a keen eye out for William Tell and Robin Hood or any of their followers. CIO Note: <888> 02/22/04 Sunday 2:20 A.M.: I ate a piece of apple pie before going to bed after the last message. I woke up during my sleep, and I ate 10 saltines. I finally woke up at 10 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with raspberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I then went back to sleep until a short time ago. I will now do some computer work. In the mail, I received a nice picture of George and Laura Bush with a form and an a envelope for campaign contributions. CIO Note: <888> 02/21/04 Saturday 11:25 A.M.: I went outside briefly. I checked the mail which has not arrived. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. I received notification that the Microsoft Office Suite 2003 has been shipped two day airborne, so I guess I will receive it on Monday. Well, it has warmed up, and it is currently 39 degrees Fahrenheit, and it feels like 34 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 . CIO Note: <888> 02/21/04 Saturday 10:40 A.M.: I am microwaving a Swanson's 11 ounce boneless white meat fried chicken dinner, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 02/21/04 Saturday 10:15 A.M.: I vacuumed my apartment. CIO Note: <888> 02/21/04 Saturday 9:30 A.M.: I went out after the last message. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I used the bathroom at Starbucks. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the Greenwich Exxon station next to the library, and I bought $2.35 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.959 a gallon for about 27 miles per gallon. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought eight 4.25 ounce cans of Bumble Bee pink crab meat for .99 a can, two 6.5 ounce dry cans of Stop and Shop California medium black pitted olives for .99 each, a 16 ounce container of Stop and Shop grated parmesan cheese for $4.99, a 17 ounce bottle of Rienzi balsamic vinegar for $2.99, fresh plum tomatoes at $1.99 a pound for $3.56, 10 ounces of fresh spinach for $1.50, 16 ounces of baby carrots $1.50, 10 ounces of fresh mushrooms $1.99, and fresh broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $1.73 for $28.16 total. I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought two 5.5 ounce boxes of Arnold large cut garlic and herb croutons for .99 each, a loaf of Arnold whole wheat oat bread for .99, a Entenmann's home-style apple pie for $1.89 less 10% senior discount of .49 for $4.37 total. I then returned home, and I put away my purchases. I drank some iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 02/21/04 Saturday 5:10 A.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up. I will then go out for a walk downtown, and I will also do some errands once the stores open. CIO Note: <888> 02/21/04 Saturday 4:55 A.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . I used all of the regular ingredients. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used 2/3 Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese and 1/3 Kraft Cracker Barrel Baby Swiss cheese. For the grated parmesan cheese, I used Stop and Shop no fat grated parmesan cheese topping. I also opened the 6 ounce jar of 4C imported grated Parmesan and Romano cheese, and I put it in the empty Stop and Shop no fat grated parmesan cheese container. I had the salad with iced tea. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 02/21/04: Note: <888> 02/21/04 Saturday 3:10 A.M.: I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO Note: <888> 02/21/04 Saturday 2:40 A.M.: I was up at 10 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with raspberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I just finished my house cleaning and watering the plants. I still have to do my vacuuming, which I will do after 9 A.M., so I will not disturb my neighbors. I listened to 107.6 FM with the Emerson wireless headphones. I am now recharging the Radio Shack nickel cadmium rechargeable batteries that I used in them, and they should be ready at 10 A.M.. I have a fully charged pair in the Emerson wireless headphones. I like listening to music when I do house cleaning, because it makes it go by faster. CIO Note: <888> 02/20/04 Friday 4:00 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. I might just nap for a while. I also chatted with a relative. CIO Note: <888> 02/20/04 Friday 1:45 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I also walked the train station area. During my walk, I stopped by CVS, and I picked up a prescription at $1.50 cost, and I also bought ten 3.75 ounce tins of Beach Cliff sardines in water for .50 each for $6.50 total. I then completed my walk. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a 40 inch brown leather belt with brass buckle for $3.75. Everything there is half price. I next went by the Greenwich Library. I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea. I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . I used a tin of sardines that I chopped instead of tuna. I also added the soy oil. I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese, and I also used no fat Stop and Shop grated parmesan cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 02/20/04 Friday 6:50 A.M.: I chatted with a friend. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out after that. CIO Note: <888> 02/20/04 Friday 5:55 A.M.: I went to bed after the last message. I was up at 10 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with raspberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I checked my mail. I went back to bed until 4 A.M.. I just ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder, which I had with ten large cut croutons. I also drank some iced tea. I also made a 50% Folgers' regular instant and 50% Folgers' decaffeinated instant coffee, which I drank. Recently in the last 48 hours my allergies have been bothering me again, as if a cat had been in my apartment. Since as far as I know, a cat has not been in my apartment, the other possibilities are my neighbor downstairs has a cat, but that in the past has never bothered me. Also I saw on the television that there are major dust storms in Texas, so possibly the dust storms have changed the air quality in this area too. I do not seem to have any mold growth in the refrigerator. The only other possibility in terms of change in routine is that I might be allergic to the raspberry jam, I recently started eating instead of strawberry jam. However, once about five years ago, my cat allergies were activated when I was driving in back country by the reservoir, and possibly some sort of wild cat jumped on top of my Volvo, and whatever it was activated my cat allergies. Possibly there is another wild cat in this area, but I am not sure I would sense it from inside at a distance. Well, this morning, I feel a bit better anyway. I have not cleaned up in 48 hours, so maybe I am allergic to myself. CIO Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 4:35 P.M.: Traditionally the British colonial subjects enjoy tea in the American colonies around 4 P.M., hopefully with some scones and cakes. After the last message, I ate a Nature's Valley granola bar, and then I relaxed a while. I am having a hard time falling asleep. I checked my mail twice, but it has not come as of a half hour ago. I just ate a 12 Nabisco saltines with 1/8th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them along with some iced tea. In the heated up Republican versus Liberal political campaign in the American political process, the Bush Cheney group are saving money on bumper stickers so far, but I have seen one with their name on it that says "Bush Cheney Compassionate Colonialism". I am not sure how to interpret that one. Basically, from an old guard American viewpoint, it is fun to see all the newly arrived fresh face immigrants in this country, but having been to Europe a half dozen times, I have also seen how hard they tend to work and they also tend to be very regimented. Basically, supposedly the population density of Belgium for example is the densest population in the world per area. Thus I guess when the Belgium people visit here, they enjoy a little open space. Basically, I still call my public housing complex "Flanders's Field" named after Flanders's which is the area between the Belgium Netherlands' coast and the English coast, which about 50,000 years ago was above water before it was swallowed up my the English French channel. Thus the area that was once known as Flanders is now under water. When that happened more than likely the people whom lived there took off exploring other parts of the world around the oceans, so more than likely the Flemish were the original discovers of America, since their old home was under water. I have been told that the Vikings have been also mining copper in Michigan for 50,000 years, so newly arrived Europeans should realize that their relatives long ago preceded them. Basically what we have in current history in America is the revised history in America to make it easier to learn without having to go back to far in time. I never studied pre European American history, but more than likely there are a small group of people somewhere that know about it like the stories of the Mud people. Whatever, the case I have heard more traffic from the local airport today, so more than likely some people are either returning from vacation or coming to visit us. It is hard to tell what really goes on here, since so many people constantly pass us by, since our downtown area can be a bit expensive except maybe for CVS. Still we do our best to try to be hospitable to strangers should they take the time to stop by. My local guide for this area recently has been busy with other more profitable ventures, so I do not know anyone to recommend for sightseeing excursions, but more than likely some of our regular visitors are already familiar with the area. I suppose, I could try to be more helpful, but on a limited budget, I can only recommend to people to be frugal and to save their money for a rainy day. The town motto here is "Frugality and Fortune", but with all of this news about possible terrorists attacks, it would not hurt for some people to try to be modestly prepared as best as one can afford it with common sense. I do not watch much television just a small bit of what is on it, so as far as I can tell without having gone out in the last 36 hours, the situation pretty much remains the same in this area. Still for people from warmer areas, it might be a bit chilly. Still, I am enjoying relaxing at home today. I will now shut down the computer again, and I will try to get to sleep. CIO Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 11:55 A.M.: I chatted with Microsoft Small Business solutions at 1-800-626-6307. I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 10:30 A.M.: If one needs a calendar try this link ftp://ftp.tekcolor.com/latest/CALPS-01UA.PDF . Of course I can not afford this Xerox color laser printer for $999 http://www.office.xerox.com/perl-bin/response.pl?26303 , but maybe some of the more enterprising individuals in this area can. Of course, it would also cost money to run the Xerox printer, which might be more expensive than the inkjet printer. CIO Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 10:20 A.M.: For some odd reason my Epson Stylus Color 880 printer which I bought the day before "911" ran out of ink, and I have only used it to print out test pages and cleaning since I put in new ink cartridges from www.3dayinkjet.com about three months ago. It is peculiar that it ran out of ink. I tried resetting the cartridges with Scotch tape, but they were out of ink. I finally put in the two new one black and one color original Epson cartridges that I had obtained from Entree computer in exchange for the two Epson 800 cartridges that I had bought for half price for about $27 when Marx Brothers was going out of business. Thus it seems to be very expensive to run a inkjet printer which I hardly ever use. I bought the Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer, so I would not have expensive ink cartridge bills. I also have three other HP laser printers which have full toner cartridges. Thus whatever seems to be making my Epson Stylus Color 880 inkjet printer continually run out of ink, when it is hardly ever used by me is getting to be very expensive. If it is a ghost or something using it, I wish they would consider the cost to me. I originally paid $80 for it and the week after "911" I got another $10 back from Staples in Old Greenwich, since it had price protection and was $10 cheaper. However at the time it was marked down from $150, so it is a very good inkjet printer, and not one of the less expensive models. It is running fine now with the new ink cartridges. I put the old ink cartridges in the boxes on the wicker rack on the shelf to the right of the primary computer. CIO Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 8:50 A.M.: I threw out my garbage. CIO Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 8:15 A.M.: I rested a bit. I am now microwaving a Swanson 11.75 ounce roast turkey breast and stuffing dinner, which I will have with a glass of iced tea. CIO Download 3.07 Mb. Share with your friends:
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