Born and raised here in Seattle Washington, I've enjoyed the benefits of a lifetime spent living between beautiful Puget Sound and the Cascade Mountains, thriving in an urban community filled with amazing vitality. And while a nice place to visit, please don’t make any big plans to move here anytime soon. There are already just too many new residents as it is, our roads and freeways are among the nation's most congested, property values have gone crazy, and the rain clouds never stop coming! Avoiding the intrusion of newbie Metronatural souls (whoever they are...) currently residing a few miles north in Shoreline. Our home is graced by the wise, lovely, and talented Heather, and our precocious little boy Andrew. As examples of family outings, we might go Geocaching to anywhere near or far, then again we might spend a day visiting the Seattle Aquarium or Woodland Park Zoo, depending upon the weather. Recently, we enjoyed a wonderful family adventure at the Silver Fir Campgrounds, located along The Nooksack River in the Mount Baker Wilderness Area of the Snoqualmie National Forest. 

As perhaps could easily be expected, I really enjoy reading books now and again. Overall, my favorite author is the eminent psychologist Carl Jung, having acquired and studied many of his collected works over the years. I’ve also investigated other subjects ranging from the mythological insights of Joseph Campbell, to the dreamwork techniques of Carlos Castaneda. I enjoy reading Richard Feynman for explaining physics so simply that even I can understand it, then pouring over Nikola Tesla's electromagnetic inventions from a century ago, which stupefy me with awe and wonder. Our home is then understandably rather stuffed with books, which for me is also an occupational hazard, since I've spent almost three decades selling used and antiquarian books around Seattle. Yet now I'm working from home, selling on consignment books, paper ephemera and assorted whatnot, running weekly auctions on eBay under the appropriate moniker of thebookmonger. While fluctuating over time, there remain around 1400 volumes in my personal collection, most stuffed away in boxes, including some rather unusual titles that often are found listed among these pages. The walls of my office are covered with books, charts, odd bits of engraved art or vintage prints, many in one way or another relating to my ongoing project, the World Clock Synthesis Of Systems. More on this particular subject can be found elsewhere among these web pages....

Although I really don't spend much time watching mind numbing television these days (no cable or dish TV in this house) from time to time I still enjoy The Late Show with David Letterman, or if Dave's a rerun, I might switch over and watch Charlie Rose. I also maintain an enduring appreciation for such shows as The X-Files, or episodes of the classic Sci-Fic universe Star Trek, whatever generation they may be.

Included here is a link to a somewhat out of date page, showing a me engaged at my preferred form of exercise, as well as my favorite type of personal transportation, good old fashioned Inter-Urban Bicycle Riding. Since I still peddle on down the road once and awhile (with Andrew now in tow behind) I'm thus still in the game, and the race is still not finished being run…

For those who even give a shit about such techno details, my primary computer is based upon a ASUS A7V600 Mainboard and 2.2 Ghz Athalon, with a hackable 64 Meg ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder Video/TV Card, 1.5Gig DDR-RAM, with about 360Gigs of available IBM storage space on three physical IBM Hard Drives, an old 100Meg IDE Zip Drive, 160MB External Backup HD, Compact Disk and DVD Burners, a front panel plug for USB and Compact Flash Memory Cards, and another Read Only Drive suitable for watching DVD  movies. Peripherals include an Epson Perfection 1650 Flatbed Scanner, a Kodak DC3400 Digital Camera, Intel Web Cam, plus an old JVC Dual VHS/DVD Player stashed under the desk hook up to the ATI-AIW card. My most recent purchase is a handy HP iPaq hx4705 Pocket PC, with a bright color display and CF/SD memory card slots, allowing portable access to essential files, enjoying MP3 music, with quick WiFi Internet access anywhere it's available. After a few initial setup issues were resolved, have been pleased with my Qwest DSL service, and believe everyone would benefit from high speed broad band access to the internet!  Yet with some reluctance, I accept my computer remains under the corporate tyranny of Microsoft, subjected to version Windows XP Home Edition at the present time.

While confessing some initial resistance and trepidation, thanks to all the resources available on the Internet today, it's become a nearly indispensable resource in my life. There is access to current highway information via Puget Sound Traffic Cams, locate buses with Metro's Bus Tracker, look deep into the infinite universe with the Hubble Space Telescope, or check out what's happening on Mars or Saturn. I can virtually visit our nations tremendous Library of Congress, maybe hop over to the Smithsonian Institution, or just breeze by the King County 24x7 eBook Library.  There are archives of NOVA or Frontline programs to watch, or listen to a live stream from Air America Radio, or follow up some obscure reference on the Alchemy Web Library. It almost seems like these days, everything you want to know is only a mouse click away.  Is this a glorious internet age in which we live or what?!

  Richard Haider@Only1Egg-Productions.org 

General description of the types. The introverted type. The peculiarities of the basic psychological functions in the introverted attitude. Thinking. The introverted thinking type. In: Jung, C., Collected Works of C.G. Jung, volume 6

Characteristics of the introverted thinking type are described. Oriented to the subjective factor is experience which guides and determines judgment, the introverted thinker is observed to be more interested in producing new views than new facts. With a tendency to force facts into the shape of his private images, the introvert can fall prey to mystical thinking. Kant is offered as an example of the normal introverted thinking type, strongly influenced by ideas having a subjective foundation. This type is found to be often impractical not only neglecting the object, but defending against it unnecessarily. However lucid the inner structure of his thought, the introvert does not clearly understand how to communicate it to the world of reality. In personal relations he is described as taciturn, domineering and inconsiderate, appreciated only his intimates. With more intense members of this type, convictions become more rigid and they shut off outside influences completely. Up to a point, their thinking is positive and synthetic, producing ideas that reflect the primordial images; but when totally divorced from objective experience, the ideas become mythological and unintelligible to others.

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