Robert Bowdidge

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Programming tools developer, model railroader, San Jose historian
If any Berkeley alum need a new career, note that the former Stuffed Inn storefront on Euclid Ave. in Berkeley is selling for $1M.
Spent the morning getting a freight train over the La Mesa model railroad club’s layout.
Op session yesterday at Seth's beautiful layout modeling Milpitas and the NUUMI auto plant in the mid 1990s.
Can someone check on England? Things don't seem right there.

At "Stereophonic" at the Curran Theater. Loved the 1970's recording studio set, and loved watching the stagehands come on at intermission to reset all the props.

Fun play that triggered a lot of reminders about romantic and work relationships, and navigating between what I wanted to do and what the team wanted to do.

The crossover gag sticker I made that my friends from high school wouldn't understand for its tech content, my younger coworkers didn't understand because they weren't Gen Xers who listened to Bay Area radio, and my older colleagues didn't understand because they hadn't heard of the COMe embedded boards.
T-shirt I forgot to buy for my nephew when I was in Santiago de Compostela.

Three generations of travelers through the Azores: "Os Emigrantes" (1926, Domingos Rebelo), "Os Regressantes" (1987, Tomaz Viera), and "Os Visitantes" (2025, Sara Azad) showing the families leaving the Azores for a new life in the United States, the families returning to the islands to visit family, and the current generation of Azoreans heading to Boston to visit the US family.

From exhibit at Centro Municipal de Cultura in Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, #azores

I wasn't expecting to find a plaque celebrating the creation site of the first sans-serif printing font on the sidewalk. (Red Lion Court at Fleet Street, London).
Visited Bletchley Park, and was definitely worth the ride from London. Also saw a lot of parallels to working on secret projects at Apple.