Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 13:34:12 -0800 (PST) From: HW Analysts of the Web Subject: Your HW Sample #98020201 Returns RE: HW Sample sent in from: http://WWW.HWA.ORG/HWSample.shtml Referencing Sample No: 98020201 Greetings, [HisName] Thank for contributing your Handwriting Sample to HWA-at-HWAORG. This is a new way to collect handwriting samples which has been great fun. We've been at this now for more than thirty years, and should be able to give you a pretty quick overview here of what's there in your handwriting. If you would like to have a deeper look into things, feel free to let us know: write back and ask questions or make any comments you'd like. We'll get back to you accordingly. Also, it would be nice when you finish reading the response here for you to return to the Web a couple minutes and fill out a "How'd We Do" rating form at http://WWW.HWA.ORG/Rating.shtml so that others can have be benefit of your evaluation, too. People often ask us what it is we look at to make the determinations we do about your hand (HW sample.) In general, the technique we use means looking at several things simultaneously to gain an overall view of the handwriting, (known in psychology as a 'gestalt view') so as to ascertain some general points which appear to show up as 'unique' in your particular hand. Having looked at thousands of samples over the years, we can usually fairly instantly identify certain traits we see which particularly stand out. Things we're looking at include slope, slant, spacing, margins, white space on the page, general form, loopies, sharpness, and height of the letters within their zones (upper strokes, middle zone, lower zone strokes) and distance between characters, words, lines. Each formation has its own interpretative value in a hand and those which particularly stand out in your particular combination are what we use to make these specific remarks. We can't really (for an intro reading like this) go over each and every specific trait found in your handwriting in depth, but if there's something you have a question about and would like to write back and ask about it, feel free to do so. This is intended to be a general overview of traits evident in your HW. In the case of your sample, probably the first thing which stands out is the amount of information you can cram onto one page! Interesting exercise in miniaturizaion, eh? Perhaps instead of being a software engineer, you might want consider being a firmware engineer at LSI or Intel or something, actually writing the micro traces on ICs, etc! Kidding aside... your mind is a very complex puzzle place. I'm sure you know that, since you sort of live right there with it most of the time. You clearly feel much more comfortable relating to people via a keybaord than you do via handwriting... And for regular voice communication, you probably tend to be a rather slow to warm up type... ie: Like to have some distance between yourself and others early on, and tend to keep your voice rather quiet until you are comfortable and feel that you're on the inside. A peer group is very important to you in that you use it to in a way substitute for your family relationships which for you have often found to be rather tenuous and inadequate, though on a day to day this may well not be something which you spend much time thinking about. I am very likely treading on thin ice here anyway... because this kind of thing brings up the point of "feelings" and "emotions", which are a couple of things which are not at the top of your list of "Things I Do Every Day." But the peer group, on the other hand... that's one you do understand, and enjoy, and need, as it were. You have actually quite a variety of people in your life; if you were to think about it sometime, you might tend to feel as though you 'collect' people of a wide variety of strays & eccentrics and people who otherwise may not feel they "fit in". With you, however, they're mostly all equal, so you can just hang out together in the middle of the night keeping the night guard as the rest of the world sleeps! Programming is probably a pretty good match for you in that you best like working independently and without lots of direct supervision telling you what to do when. In fact, if you were to find yourself in a situation where you DID have lots of supervision and "guidance" then you might tend to feel a bit antsy, wanting to get out of there and get back to your own private world again, where you're much more accustomed to living. Your mind works fairly quickly, something like a stock ticker... with little reads constantly pouring into your brain of your impressions of the world around you... item by item, constantly ticking off impressions in something like a little voice inside which keeps you updated, speaking its piece forever and always. Meditation is something the Eastern Mystics have used for centuries to quite the inner voice, to get to a space of peace and quiet where the mind is allowed NOT to have anything to say. And yet, this must seem almost an inconceivable place to you, having next to never known a moment when your "standard input" wasn't feeding you some long string of data. You might well almost equate a silent head with having died, and so haven't ever much sought to consider what it might be like. Your sense of overview is probably a valuable contribution to your peers & coworkers, yet you are also not likely to speak up on things without being asked. You don't mind making a comment here or there, but you never let out the full stream of what's going on up there in your head at your "control panel" Well... there's the brief view of you, as seen here from the vantage of your handwriting ... What does it sound to you like? Sound anything like the [HisName] YOU know? Thanks again for contributing your sample. And we'd appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to let us know how you feel about this reading. We've provided a web-based form for doing so at: http://WWW.HWA.ORG/Rating.shtml which it would be wonderful if you could fill out; if you're particularly pressed for time and would prefer to merely respond to this email, feel free, too, to do that. We do appreciate your feedback. Thanks so much for your interest in our work, our research, and our helping others to learn more about Handwriting Analysis on the Web. - - This sample interpreted by: Jerral Sapienza JerralS-at-HWA.ORG - - Please reference Sample No: 98020201 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Handwriting Analysis on the Web * WWW.HWA.ORG/ * HWA-at-HWA.ORG Mailing Address: Post Office Box 380 * Eugene, OR 97440-0380 Learn, Grow, Share Your Stuff * It's all out there in your Hand! ---------------------------------------------------------------------