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Impressive meteor cut through the sky every two minutes or so and often One starts with farms and distant mountains andĪfter camping in a half-empty national park campground and eatingĭinner, Joel and I lay on the ground and watched the meteor showers that Pales a bit next to some of the other claimants, but it is a beautifulĭrive by any standard. Washington Route 20 claims to be "America's Most Scenic Highway." It Park, various highways into Yellowstone, and I-280 in San Francisco, Like Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National We rolled north through various ugly waterside industrial areas beforeįinally turning off the highway to follow a lovely river valley into the Traffic crawled for 20 miles out of town. Punched right through the center of town, Seattle would have good One of the nice things about Boston is that the population hasn't grown Here: it rains all the time and the freeways are jammed. Population and is filling up the rest of the world with its emigrants.Ĭome to think of it, an Irish-Angeleno would feel perfectly at home is getting to be like Ireland: a place that can't sustain its for 40 years and was really aggressive I'veīeen here six months and have totally mellowed out."
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They were all full of ex-AngelenosĮnthusiastic about their new life here in the Northwest: Shops, upscale, downscale, sit-down, stand-up, walk-in, drive-through.Įven McDonald's serves the stuff. Joel and I pushed our way out of Seattle through a maze of espresso "We need to see ex-girlfriends occasionally so that we remember why we We parted warmly, even if our reunion underscored a friend's philosophy: Thus, 99% of your time is spent in a state of confusion." If you cease beingĬonfused, it means that you've solved the problem and move on to the next You spendĪll your time working on a problem confused. Science and engineering research are inherently depressing. Quickly from craven graduate students to awe-inspiring professors. Students a few hours a week and teaching them will give you theĬonfidence to do good research and writing. Rebecca, currently doing research, to use her Ph.D. The great tragedy of science and engineering right now is that there areġ0 times as many Ph.D.s as academic jobs. Has a real job and took me out to breakfast. Now I'm in graduate school and using her washing machine she Take her out she was in graduate school and would use my washing
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Software and politicians aren't the things about which I am most People making such quick character judgments. After a month in Alaska, I wasn't used to He changed an administrative rule on abortion counseling a woman can now be told about the availability of abortion by doctors at government-funded clinics."Īfter I stated my hope that the most powerful man in the world should beĪble to do something more substantial, Adi said, "You are really cynical I pressed to find out what Clinton had done to make them so happy. He and his liberal friends are delighted with Bill Clinton's first eight months. Other supposedly new applications existed on bigĬomputers and are available to the masses today because hardware isĬheaper, not because new kinds of software have been written."Īdi moved the discussion over to politics.
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Word processing and spreadsheets, which is about all the average PC userĬan do today. "The last real innovation in software was the spreadsheet," I noted.
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"Look at how wonderful Windows is," Adi gushed. That they'll spend tens of thousands on adaptations, hand-holding, and Run with $1000 of hardware, but commercial software is such a mess "Electrical engineers have been so innovative that a business can be Students 25 years ago and is still better than any of the new "Where is the innovation? Macsyma was written by MIT graduate Joel, such aĬomputer algebra wizard that his first date with a Harvard girl was The Brave New World of computer software was. Planned on going out for dinner, but Elke and her hostess JulieĪdi started off the conversation by waxing rhapsodic on how wonderful Joel was staying with Adi and Viola, two West German academics. Although encumbered by home ownership, he's never bought In reading, still turning to English literature and the New project, a terrifying room-size free-electron laser, became aĬornerstone of Reagan's Star Wars project. Vaguely liberal political views he wasn't even radicalized when his One tail untucked hanging over faded jeans). Joel still stands 5' 10" high on his stocky legs, hides his face behindĪ black beard, and wears the "physics wardrobe" (flannel shirt with Probably changed less than anyone else I knew at school. Joel's a physics professor at Berkeley now and has Was an unusually immature sophomore at MIT and he was an unusually Of Travels with Samantha by Philip Greenspun Helens, Pummeled in Portland Chapter XIV: Sleepless in Seattle, Sightless in St. Chapter XIV: Sleepless in Seattle, Sightless in St.