Re: Finnish Forest Net People telepresent in Inet'98

Laura Breeden ([email protected])
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 11:42:21 -0800

Toni,

This sounds great except I can't figure out how you could rest on a laser... are they soft??? I think not!!

At 9:00 PM 3/30/98, Toni Alatalo wrote:
>Hi Laura, nice to hear from you again! :)
>
>Things are just fine, we came to a funny physics lab with me new flatmate,
>he's a real science kinda guy sometimes, they have new lasers here to
>study photosynthesis and other extremely interesting bio-stuff. We came to
>take the soft stuff where the huge lasers were in to use as mattresses and
>pillows in our new apartment ;)
>
>The Finns I was chatting with sure made the Finnish summer sound beautiful
>and make me miss home again. Amsterdam has been great, though, warm nice
>weather for change and dancing outdoors, there was this Move Your World!
>-festival thing where they had Internet related stuff too, like
>teleconferencing to South Africa and Moscow etc.

This does sound fun, especially the dancing. I was in Denmark and Norway once in June and it was colder than I thought (I had to buy a sweater) but very beautiful, and I loved the water. Norway is kind of like Maine in the USA. I think a trip home woul
d be a good idea. How long are you plannign to study in Amsterdam??

>This one guy Benoit I met here some time ago told some nice things about
>Geneva, he's from somewhere there. I'll guess some of us try to come there
>afterall, me for sure, but hopefully other people too. The rest will be on
>the net from home, hopefully from nature, this one guy I was talking with
>today is in London (or Kingston) at the moment coding for the
>learningworld.org but will be back home in Finland for summer living on
>this small island just outside Oulu and they have a connection there.
>
>I just need to get to go to Finland at some point to charge my batteries
>and get rid of this home sickness, then arrange some money for the
>expensive Switzerland (I guess sponsors shouldn't be too hard to find?)
>and head there then .. the jazz festival Mark (Selby, I mean) was talking
>about sounded good :)

Let me know if you need to find a place to stay, I can ask the program committee if anyone has extra space in their house or hotel.

>Thanks for being there, let's keep
>in touch and hope to see you there then!
>
>+ an + ~ Toni ~ : (t . !

Yes, you will definitely see me there.

If you could talk to one net person, who would it be? Maybe we can get this person to participate in our session....

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