wonderful day out in California.. took most of it off work. I worked the end part of our trip around  being here to see my good friend .. and my PhD advisor .. Prof Rob Rutenbar  get the Phil Kaufman award.. which is the highest honor anyone in my old field of EDA could get..The Phil Kaufman award is like the Nobel prize of EDA.. and if anyone deserves it, it’s Rob. 

 

there were bout 165 folks there to see ROb get the ward.. It was great seeig so many old freinds.. John K and Gloria.. 

 

Anderzej  and David

 

Jolly and Shispal 

 

me and my  closest grad collaborator David 

 

my codvisor.. and ROb’s long time (30 year) collaborator Rick. 

 

Jolly !!!

Patrick

 

rob and his son Peter.. see the resemblance ? 

 

My freind Prof Martin Wang of UI did a wonderful talk on Rob’s career. it was warm. personal and well researched .

 

lots of pictures of stuff I worked with Rob on .. 

 

nice stuff about his students 

 

and his teaching.. .here whinnign the Aristotle award .. fromour mutal good freind Bill Joyner.

(who’s that in the background ?!?_ ..)

 

rob gaveaa great talk about the twists and tursns aof his career.. as with all of robs talks.. it was wonderful adnd funny. 

 

young robb at U of Michigan. 

 

rob’s folks 

 

rob and rick.. the dynamic duo !

 

robs career as a word cloud.. 

rob’s first chip . 507 transister 

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the award !

 

colleagies and former students 

 

here’s the medal I made for ROb.. its his name in mth.. (get it .. ? root  n-bar) 

 

what a great event !> I was so proud of ROb..and so happy to see so many people gathered there for him. he’s SO deserving of this award !

 

we left around 9:45.. then drove up to Mill valley to meet our friends john. laurne.. and andrew…. andrew guided us to stinson beach to peter and Meagan’s wonderful beach house where we’re staying..

 

we got there just as it turned midnight.. it’s my brithday !!!!

 

ok.. it’s late and I need to  sleep..

 

more from my Birthday day tomorrow..

 

for now: nite  all, note sam

-me

 

busy day in sf working with friends at AKQA .. very productive. Met diane at the hotel at 5 and escaped the city with her . Went down to palo alto to see friends peter and megan … where we met up with john, lauren, andrew and some other friends.. all burning man connections. Great evening of conversation.. mostly talking aboit what most burning man falks talk about when not at burning man…  …burning man… 

it was almost as fun as going to burning man…

but here they have flush toilets !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Busy. busy day today here in SF…. beginning with another nice run through the very busy Chinese  section  \

diane spent the day exploring the city.. she walked over 8 miles. one of those miles took her to a small park near golden gate…. and there she ra into our good friends  mark and jill from vermont.. totally randomly.. we didn’t know they were in California.. and they didn’t know we were here..

 

small town this san Fransisco 

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

 

 

beutiful and busy work day in San fransisco..   Diane and I watched the sun rise from our room

 

we got out for a good 4 mile or so run.   down to near telegraph hill

 

we ran out on oen of the peirs and left a samstone 

 

then back to the hotel, quick shower and off to work..   I met up with my freind SHerri 

 

and my freind Biz 

after work we met up with our freinds from AKQA.. Michael, Nick, Jon, Crystal  for a lovely meal at 

The Battery.. a private club tha Micheal blongs to.. it’s an amazing place eith twisting passages, beutiful dinig rooms. gardens, librarie.. even a secret door in a book shelf.

 

it had even more surprises than that..t eh guys surprised me wiht an early birthday cake !  It was so wonderful !

 

after dinner , michael gaver us a tour of the place.. it’s so amazing.. they even had a photo booth 

very nice evening with very nice people.

eager to work with them again tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me