Published May 12th, 2007

Went on a tour of the Intel Fabs in Hillsboro. Cool Stuff, but no cameras allowed. Thanks to Auke and Stacy for taking us on the tour.

Made it to Powell’s around 3pm.

Bought 23 books, for around $340 total:

  • Red Thunder by John Varley
  • Red Lightning by John Varley
  • Rand McNally California Road Atlas
  • Rand McNally Pacific Northwest Road Atlas
  • Woken Furies by Richard Morgan
  • Market Forces by Richard Morgan
  • Broken Angels by Richard Morgan
  • Guardian by Joe Haldeman
  • Infinite Dreams by Joe Haldeman
  • Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
  • The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
  • Humans by Robert J. Sawyer
  • Scientific Blunders by Robert Youngson
  • 1,000 Places to See Before you Die by Patricia Schultz
  • Programming the Universe by Seth Lloyd
  • Beyond Spaceship Earth edited by Eugene C. Hargrove
  • High Tech Heretic by Clifford Stoll
  • At the Center of the Storm by George Tenet
  • The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
  • Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill
  • The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
  • Where’s my Jetpack? by Daniel H. Wilson
  • Linux TCP/IIP Networking for Embedded Systems by Thomas F. Herbert

We went to Jo-Bar for dinner. mmm… it was very good.


Written by Paul Querna, CTO @ ScaleFT. @pquerna