tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post8154001514249846257..comments2023-04-16T13:03:08.852+02:00Comments on Déjà vu - down memory lane in California: HAPPY ENDING – ESTA NO SERA LA ULTIMA GENERACIONEmil Emshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07815643585218883358noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-43436296023514065852010-06-03T12:54:58.169+02:002010-06-03T12:54:58.169+02:00Dear Per,
Thank you kindly for your, as always, in...Dear Per,<br />Thank you kindly for your, as always, interesting and pertinent remarks. They remind me, inter alia, about my own dissertation party, were I also - dare I say it? - held a small speech in the noble language of Cicero. Latin is not unfamiliar to me, having learned it for 8 years in highschool and been privileged in reading and speaking the language, whilst studying Roman Law in Vienna, back in the early 'sixties. But the dissertation was more than 25 years later, so I was nonetheless obliged, similar to the American students you mention, to get help, that is, to get a student of classical languages to help me out with the translation.<br /><br />Furthermore, I am stupefied by your universal knowledge of all things, small and big; now you reveal yourself also as an expert in the field of information and innovation! AnnaLee must be pleased to have such a knowledgeable connoisseur and admirer of her work!<br /><br />Dear AnnaLee,<br />I highly appreciated your remarks and feel honored by your praise. This encourages me to continue with my blogging exercises. Thank you also kindly for preventing me from making a major error. Peete's Café deserves to have its name correctly spelled; I will immediately correct my error in the main text.<br /><br />Dear Christina and Lars,<br />How nice to meet yet another pair of old friends on this blog page. I am pleased to hear that you may follow my example and also spend some time in California, to reminisce about the good old times. All the praise I have received for the blog has encouraged me to keep on writing some more postings. So watch out for the sequels!Emil Emshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07815643585218883358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-80592819687382153532010-06-02T00:58:33.522+02:002010-06-02T00:58:33.522+02:00Dear Emil,
Thanks for pointing me to your lovely...Dear Emil, <br /><br />Thanks for pointing me to your lovely coverage of graduation day on the Berkeley campus. I'm sharing the post with the rest of the I School community because your photos and narrative are brilliant, and because I like the comparisons with Europe. Many of us love the graduation--for its mix of tradition and celebration. I only wish you'd introduced yourself and we would have welcomed you to join us for a drink and sandwich. <br /><br />I have one small correction to the post; the cafe on Telegraph is Peet's Coffee and Tea. This may seem a minor correction (your text says Peek's) but as you likely know, we take our coffee VERY seriously in Berkeley. Peet's is the original Berkeley cafe, and even the world-famous Starbucks was started by a former Peet's employee. Of course we believe that Peet's coffee is the best -- at least on this side of the Atlantic.<br /><br />Cheers<br />Anno SaxenianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-74631369620271898782010-06-01T05:32:54.076+02:002010-06-01T05:32:54.076+02:00Bästa Emil!
Så här i sista minuten vill vi skick...Bästa Emil!<br /> <br />Så här i sista minuten vill vi skicka dig en hälsning för att tala om hur mycket vi uppskattat dina otroliga blogg-reseberättelser. Vi visste att du tog fantastiska bilder, men kände inte till dina litterära talanger! Att kunna skriva så livfullt, målande och fyllt av kultur som du gör och på ett språk som inte är modersmålet! Vi är fyllda av beundran (och avund!)!<br />Såväl bilder som text har många gånger fått oss att längta till Kalifornien. Och den dröm du nu genomfört att åka dit för en längre tid lockar verkligen till efterföljd. Du har i alla fall fått oss att drömma. Dessutom känns det ju som att Kaliforniens själ och hjärta ännu finns vid liv – trots alla ekonomiska problem som vi läser om i vardagslag.<br /> <br />Stort tack för att du på ett så fantastiskt sätt har delat med dig av dina erfarenheter! Välkommen åter till Europa!<br /> <br />Christina och LarsChristina och Lars Jonungnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-65689923824686353492010-06-01T05:13:02.279+02:002010-06-01T05:13:02.279+02:00Dear Emil,
Your magnificant blogg from graduation ...Dear Emil,<br />Your magnificant blogg from graduation day at Berkeley brought tears to my eyes and smiles to my mouth. How wonderful and important it is to celebrate education! Such traditions, which have long ceased to be honoured in Europe, have survived in the United States. Some universities there still follow the custom holding graduation speaches in Latin, but appropriately not the school of information at Berkeley. This usually impressed parents, especially when the speech was interrupted by the graduates' applause and laughter. Little did the parents know that the students had received handouts of the speeches in advance with indications (in Latin) to laugh here or applaud there. How nice to see that Annelee Saxenian is now dean at the school of information. She is the author of a classic study comparing Silicon Valley with Route 128 (the circumvential around Boston). Her conclusion was that Silicon Valley's relative success was, in short, due to better information dissemination within that community than what characterised Route 128. E. g. staff from different companies met after hours at various watering holes and talked shop and moved from a job in one company to a job in an other. Along Route 128, companies discouraged employees to talk with the competition and moving from one company to another was considered a sign of infidelity.This hierarchical attitude is summed up in the popular saying that in Boston the Cabots speak only to Cabots and the Lodges only to God.Per Magnus Wijkmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242228370300474063.post-9654747473451460962010-06-01T05:11:11.709+02:002010-06-01T05:11:11.709+02:00Dear Emil,
Your magnificant blogg from graduation ...Dear Emil,<br />Your magnificant blogg from graduation day at Berkeley brought tears to my eyes and smiles to my mouth. How wonderful and important it is to celebrate education! Such traditions, which have long ceased to be honoured in Europe, have survived in the United States. Some universities there still follow the custom, holding graduation speaches in Latin, but appropriately not the school of information at Berkeley. This usually impressed parents, especially when the speech was interrupted by the graduates' applause and laughter. Little did the parents know that the students had received handouts of the speeches in advance with indications (in Latin) to laugh here or applaud there. How nice to see that Annalee Saxenian is now dean at the school of information. She is the author of a classic study comparing Silicon Valley with Route 128 (the circumvential around Boston). Her conclusion was that Silicon Valley's relative success was, in short, due to better information dissemination within that community than what characterised Route 128. E. g., staff from different companies met after hours at various watering holes and talked shop and moved from a job in one company to a job in another. Along Route 128, companies discouraged employees to talk with the competition and moving from one company to another was considered a sign of infidelity. This hierarchical attitude is summed up in the popular saying that in Boston the Cabots speak only to Cabots and the Lodges only to God.Per Wijkmannoreply@blogger.com