My friend Xin is out this week  at the International Solid State Circuits Conference.( ISSCC)    ISSCC is the bigist and most important circuits conference in the world.  Its really the heartbeat of the electronics industry.  .  This is the 70th year os ISSCC.. and every decade they put out an anniversary booklet. Xin sent me this picture of one of the pages. It calls out memorable Plenery talks during the history of the conference… ..It was nice seeing these pics.. also of my good friend Nick !

This picture brings back such great memories.. this  was one of my first really big keynotes.. I remember walking ou t on the stage,., there were more than 9000 people there and I could hear my heartbeat on the PA system..   It was also my 50th birthday.. and 2 weeks before I was off to do the reality show. My talk was about getting my  nerdy  colleagues to share  their love of engineering and science with the next generation..   I had such stage fright.. but it went great.. ..

After the talk, DIane and  I walked across the street to have dinner…   and there was a surprise birthday party waiting for me.. Our freinds larry and leah. carl, rob.. and my sister  mary and her husband our nephew Jake.. it was the first time o met him !!   

What a great moment.. it was punctuation for a very new chapter in my life.. 

It really filled my heart !

Nice memories 

nite all, nite sam

-me