Racing off
Dateline: Faculty Club, U Cal Berkeley, Berkeley California, 8 March 2005
Got in around 2pm yesterday, rented my car and got to Berkeley. Checking into faculty club, I finally figured out how to use WiFi on my Mac (pretty cool!).
Then showered, got dressed, and was picked by nice female Navy Lt. who's a ROTC instructor here. She drives me to swank Claremount Club up on hill overlooking city for dinner in my honor to kick off the Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitiz Lectureship. About 200 in attendance. Cocktail hour of intros, then a nice dinner, then I was callled to podium after formal intro to give impromptu talk, which I did for about 15-20 minutes, just off the cuff. Mostly gave background of mentors (Gaffney, Flanagan, Cebrowski) and expressed my delight at following old profs in this honor (Huntington, Nye). Then I launched into usual intro to brief where I talk about my career at college, Cantor, Rule Sets Project, working in OSD.
Up late last night on email. Rushing out now for class where I lecture, lunch where I talk, TV show taping that will go on web, then over to SF on BART for talk at World Affairs Council tonight. Then back.
No story blogging today, unless I find time at night.