“Frankly Lou, I have had summer jobs that have been much more interesting,” I told my boss. Running enthusiastically into my boss’s boss’s office I blurted out “Bob, I heard this engineer Franco describe a test method called Weighted Random Patterns. I found it so fascinating.” As a young engineer at IBM in the mid-1980’s…
Month: April 2016
Dinner Time Processes– Take 1
The dinner bell rang at five minutes to go before sitting down to eat our evening meal. Dad called it the “5-minute warning;” the signal to wrap up whatever you were doing and join the family for food and conversation. The bell had been in the family since my parents wed. As part of your…
Of TRS80s, PDP11s and Antennas: My First Technical Document
For an engineer, I’m weird; I like to document. Not sure if the challenge of communicating to others motivates the problem solver in me, or if it’s the yearning for precise language. My Dad certainly instilled the need for precise language in me and my siblings. When we worked on maintaining the family cars he…
Family Reunion Vacation– A Genealogy
26 July 2015 Saints’ Name day of St. Anne and St. Joachim; parents of Mary, who was mother of Jesus 19 July PM – 26 July AM Annual Meixner Family Reunion at Lakeby, Washington 13 People Ages 9-86 Years in attendance Informal Sketch of the Family Tree below. Our family reunion vacations began in the…