Hi Ann, all.
Stockholders meeting. Believe it or not, it was mostly positive (INTC down, down, down,). But, first for the important part. Paul Engel (hope he's not reading, don't think so on this thread) is a very cool guy, and very intelligent . I expected both of these. I did, however, expect a bit of an edgy guy with a bit of a chip on his shoulder. Not at all. He's very easy going, smiles and laughs easily, just a great guy to be around. I guess just don't cross him, or say something about Intel. He also has a firm, strong handshake. Before the meeting, there was a nice spread of fruit, pastries, and other food, and coffee, of course. I had gotten there early anyway, to get a parking spot (no problem), and a good seat (second row, right in the middle, ~ 20 feet from Andy and Craig). Getting ahead of myself, before that, I kept looking all around the food spread tables, walking back and forth, trying to spot Humble Carl or Paul. No luck. So, on with the meeting. I'll talk about the more serious stuff later, probably in another post. Interesting, if you wanted to ask a question of Andy or Craig, you had to line up behind one of three microphones, with, like, a spotlight on you. To he** with that. However, Andy said that if you couldn't get your question in, ask one of the exec's who had been introduced before the meeting. After the meeting, they were milling around, talking among themselves, or to stockholders who had some moxie. Nice people, anyway. So, I asked mine of Paul Otellini (sp?), senior VP and GM. I'll tell you later what it was. More interesting, I went up to Gordon Moore (of Moore's Law fame), and asked him if the 1103 T-shirt hanging in the Intel museum was for sale. Before he could say anything, I said I wanted it because I was designing memory systems with it 27 years ago. He had a good laugh, said he had one of those T-shirts himself, we shook hands and I started looking for Humble Carl and Paul again.
Well, there goes a guy wearing the Navy hat with the sides curled up, which he said would wear...Humble Carl! Carl's wife was also there, another couple of SI Intel guys, and Gordon Moore's son, who knows Carl, or one of the others. But, where's Carl? Finally, Carl spotted him outside, talking to some ex Intel cronies. Paul had a suit and tie on! After we shook hands, I kidded him about the suit and he said he didn't get dressed up very often. About my mentioning Paul's firm handshake, I had also expected Paul to be a big guy. Instead, he's about two inches shorter than I am, maybe 30 pounds lighter. However, the handshake was one of those, like, who's going to stop squeezing first. On to the restaurant, but in another post. Maybe there will be three posts total (this one, serious stuff, and the restaurant).
I'll yack at you later!
Tony |
