This was a great walk down the memory lane for me: I was a research intern at IBM Almaden in the summer of 2000 (crash learning C++ from Horton's Beginning Visu

This was a great walk down the memory lane for me: I was a research intern at IBM Almaden in the summer of 2000 (crash learning C++ from Horton's Beginning Visual C++, I was a Unix/C person) and shopped at Fry's in Sunnyvale. We used to have lunch with interns from HP and other companies and visited Xerox PARC, it was like visiting Shangri La! When I first visited the US in 1992 I visited the Silicon Graphics buildings where the person who hosted me worked, it felt infinitely innovative. In 2000 they (now SGI) had built these cool buildings (which is now the Google campus) and offered free dinner for employees and families on Tuesday evenings. You don't get to hear about them much. In 1993 we had a brand new Silicon Graphics Indy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy) in our lab and loved it, so different from the beige boxes. Somebody ripped the first three songs from the Eurythmics Greatest Hits CD and had them playing on a loop into late nights when we were working on our Wavelets course projects (we had Daubechies's Ten Lectures on Wavelets as the textbook). Good times!