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I thought Larkin owned the building?

Did he get "zoned" out by San Fransicko politics ?>:-} ...Jim Thompson

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I'm looking for work... see my website.

maybe he is getting offers that are too big to ignore

-Lasse

Could be. ...Jim Thompson

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             I'm looking for work... see my website.

Yes, it's sad. The whole city block is going to be demolished and replaced by high-rise apartments and condos, no doubt in the standard hideous modern architectural style. If we had decided to stay, the construction and such would have been unlivable.

But we get to do it again. Everybody is making lists of the stuff they want. I need more bookshelves and more wall space to hang cables on, and more places to store project boxes. Every project makes a box full of samples and breadboards and stuff, and I like to keep them. I'm thinking of a closet sort of space with close, library-type shelving.

And more power strips!

I want a whiteboard with serious glare-free lighting and a fix-mounted camera to take pictures of it, just next to my workbench. I want to push a button or yell PHOTO and have a pic saved to my PC. That's not unreasonable, is it?

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 

lunatic fringe electronics

We spent a fortune on seismic upgrades, and then never had an earthquake!

It is owned by HMS Otis LLC, of which I am a partner with a few other people. The entire block will become a huge high-rise residential monstrosity, so we sold out, and have to move.

The idiots who run the city want to Manhattanize the Van Ness corridor, which is already insanely conjested. So, let them.

We're moving to a quieter area, Pot Hill.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 

lunatic fringe electronics

We bought at the dip of the last Dot Com bust, and I think we're selling just before the next one. The upside is absorbed by the fact that we have to move somewhere expensive. At best we'll get a few more square feet in a better neighborhood.

The critical indicator of economic activity here is the number of big cranes visible from I80. Last time we drove out of the city, I counted

19 enormous cranes, more than even before the dot-com crash. Boom bust boom bust, and the idiots never learn. The highest investment rates and the most cranes always happen just before a crash.

When the VCs get tired of funding crazy geeks coding idiotic derivative apps, who pay $12,000 a month for an apartment, it will be fun. Maybe there will still be a market for real electronics?

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 

lunatic fringe electronics

Even in Asia it's still (relatively) hard to get VC money for

*hardware* startups. The promise (dream) of something that scales overnight to be worth $billions is too big a magnet for money.

--sp

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Aren't drones hardware? John's been talking about a bunch of startups out there.

There are a bunch of drone and cubesat companies around here. A minority might survive.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 

lunatic fringe electronics

If they were certain to survive, there would be no need for VCs.