the well-dressed engineer

California "stole" the tech industry from New England, and also made it a lot less fashionable..but I guess when the sun does nothing but shine there's no point to put on anything but a T-shirt, cargo shorts and sandals year round.

It is curious that electronics moved west. HP, Tek, Varian, Apple, all the silicon valley stuff.

There was GR, Boonton, DEC, Data General, tons of stuff around Boston. Even serious electronics in New Jersey and NYC.

Maybe it's moving south now. Samsung and TSMC are building their new fabs in Texas and Arizona. Maybe Wall Street will move to Florida.

But here in SF it's cold most of the year. "Wow, that lady looks great in a parka."

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

I don't understand why anyone would wear a tie. Few politicians are willing to not. Even Arab and Asian leaders wear ties.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Prelude to much of it moving all the way East..

They were pretty late to the microcomputer party. Everyone over 65 around here knows someone who worked for DEC or worked for them themselves, but the only place I ever recall seeing DEC machines back in the day was in hospitals.

I never saw one in a classroom, though, just the good ol' Apple II, which as far as elementary school kids of the 80s were concerned defined what "a computer" was for that decade.

In the early 90s we used DEC-branded three-ring binders for our Dungeons & Dragons papers, they were free for the asking.

"Computer Drive" in Westboro never changed its name but it's mostly biotech firms around there now.

Third world healthcare, third world education system, and women are second-class citizens. Yeah maybe Wall Street will move there, if you're rich enough to have your own physician, private tutors for your kids, and buy any women you happen to need it sounds pretty good.

My impression of Miami from the few times I've been there is it's a city for two types of people, the independently wealthy who don't have to work and people throwing all their money at pretending they don't have to.

You don't have to wear a tie but engineers tend to be pretty well paid and there should be some rule that by the time you have $100,000 in the bank you can afford $1000 worth of clothes.

A number of guys in tech don't seem to play by the rules. Not sure if not having a lady in their life is the cause or the symptom..

My doctor Sam refutes all three.

Buying women sounds repulsive to me. And unhealthy.

Do you often buy women? Does that sound "pretty good" ?

That's what you'll see in a Holiday Inn maybe. That's because it's full of people like you.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

I did, but that was back in the 80's when I was new to the industry and trying to make a good impression. It didn't last.

Matching sox is a waste of time. Just grab two out of the drawer.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Engineers now work in shorts or sweats or monster costumes.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Based on remains found at Vesuvius?

john ;-#)#