Agenda: January 2023

1. Complete preparations for Posifa Technologies' participation in AHR 2023, the big HVAC show, where Posifa will be sharing some amazing new vacuum and anemometer sensors that redefine how, where, and when you can measure pressure and air velocity/direction. 

2. Wrap up video script for a new type of MOSFET family from Vishay, then admire the final video created by the internal Vishay marcom team.

3. Prepare first issue of the Alliance Memory quarterly newsletter, for which editorial calendar as already bursting at the seams.

4. Spend a couple days hiking at Big Bend National Park, which everyone says is so beautiful. On the way, check out the town of Marfa, Texas, where my Uncle Bob and Aunt Jackie lived during WWII when Uncle Bob was in the service.

5. Continue listening to Big Brains podcast from University of Chicago to see whether subsequent episodes are as engaging as the first one I listened to with guest Katy Milkman from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, author of How To Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be.

Bob's personal reading for the past few weeks has focused on

books originally published in 1939-41. In addition to the books

shown above, he's read or listened to Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household,

The Corporate State in Action by Carl T. Schmidt, and the

T. E. Lawrence translation of Homer's Odyssey.

Agenda: December 2022

1. Find as many opportunities as possible in Zoom meetings to use the phrase "Team work makes the dream work."

2. Discuss with clients and anyone else who's just come back from electronica 2022 about following up on leads. We highly recommend the lead follow-up campaigns from Kokoro Marketing. Since electronica seems always to be scheduled for the week just before Thanksgiving, nobody's going to want to think about this until December anyway. That said, if you were already working with Cindy and her team, your follow-up campaign for electronica would have been all planned out a while ago and ready to roll now.

3. Finish reading The Joy of Search, the December book for the DHG Writers Book Club. I'm really looking forward to finding out what I don't know about searching for things on Google, which must be a lot given that MIT Press has published this 323-page book on the topic.

4. Attend A Day of Silents at the Castro Theater all day on December 3. Particularly looking forward to watching the earliest surviving feature displaying the two-color Technicolor process, The Toll of the Sea. I've watched plenty of early 1930s two-color Technicolor shorts but had no idea it was around as early as 1922. 

5. When next in Barcelona, have a cocktail at Dr Stravinsky, recommended by Caryn Cohen and Joseph Lesieutre.

A fleeting glance from the 38R Geary bus of San Francisco's Union Square

Agenda: November 2022

1. Fly direct from San Francisco to Munich on UA 194 or LH 459

2. Upon arrival at the Maritim, go for a swim

3. Spend 15th through 18th at electronica 2022, catching up with so many people whom one hasn't seen since at least 2020

4. Make a special point of checking out the interesting demos at the Vishay Intertechnology booth

5. Hear the latest on what's happening with DRAMs, SRAMs, and flash from David Bagby at Alliance Memory

6. Somehow manage to slip away to spend some quality time at Dallmayr delicatessen, which one so fondly remembers visiting with Elisabeth Feder of Electronique. Open until 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and until 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Repeat as often as possible.

7. Check out who's playing at the Tonhalle, Backstage, Milla, Muffathalle, and Strom.

8. Before leaving town, get some perspective on everything new that one saw at electronica 2022 by checking out what's old at the Glyptothek.