Wednesday 10/29/2025
Spent the morning and some of the evening collecting materials for my talk on Monday. Summarizing, Gigi who organizes the First Monday Book Talk Series asked me to talk about Bill Gate’s autobiography Source Code. I decided to expand to focus on his and Steve Wozniak’s autobiography, iWoz. And especially, on 1975 when the MITS Altair announcement created the whole home computer industry.
Sounded like a great plan in, oh, August. But shit’s gettin’ real now. Gigi has been sending out CHBB emails touting this event and I am afraid I will have a big, expectant audience. So it needs to be good. I took notes on Woz’s book, but I need some more. I spent some time skimming the intertubes for pictures.
At 12 I met with Joanne and we walked to Town & Country for lunch. Her fave spot, Douce France, was jammed, so she suggested Wild Seed, a vegetarian place. That worked out very well.
Here’s a cute thing that happened. We were starting to walk back through the center, holding hands. Joanne as usual cute and smartly dressed, me at least tidy in jeans and a polo shirt and a fedora. Oh, both of us wearing dark sun-glasses, I bet that’s what did it. A lady walking by just burst out, “Well, aren’t you just the cutest couple! So stylish!” We thanked her nicely and kept going. Just a cute elderly couple, that’s us.
At 4pm Rhonda had an open meeting in the auditorium, this time to introduce the name and logo of the new satellite. It is (drum roll please) Arris by Channing House. I’d seen all this last week. The logo is very well done. Joanne doesn’t like “by”. OK, marketing dept. will take that under advisement.
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