Katy Dickinson

Transit Maps of the World

On August 4, 2006, I wrote about the subway map project Danny Cohen and I have been working on for some years. Recently, a new book was published for those who share our interest:

Transit Maps of the World - The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth
by Mark Ovenden, Penguin, 2007

ISBN-10: 0143112651, ISBN-13: 978-0143112655

This fascinating new book "brings together for the first time in a single volume the official current metro maps and diagrams from over 100 of the world's major Subway, U-Bahn, Metro and Underground systems."

Below are some photos of Danny's and my own map collection here in the Sun Labs Menlo Park, CA, building. Our most recent acquisition is a small card showing the Tokyo subway. Along with our maps is a London Transport Museum poster of Harry Beck's original London underground map.

Images Copyright 2008 by Katy Dickinson

Posted at 02:52PM Feb 07, 2008 by katysblog in News & Reviews  |  Comments[1]

Pancake Supper and Races (St. Andrew's, Saratoga)

On Tuesday (5 February), we held a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper and race at our parish, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Saratoga, CA. The Pancake Race is one of our family's favorite church festivals and we helped manage the event in partnership with St. Andrew's amazing Youth Group. My daughter Jessica was sad she could not join us this year (she is at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). She wrote out her "How to run a Shrove Tuesday Pancake supper and race" instructions in case anyone wants to hold their own pre-Lent celebration. (She said last night that this has been her most popular blog post so far!) John and I sent Jessica our notes on this week's event and she wrote an update blog entry today. For those who don't know Shrove Tuesday from Mardi Gras, read The Unofficial Olney Page for one version of how the famous tradition got started in 1445 in Olney, England.

Here are some photos from St. Andrew’s grand event. As you can see, we had races between little kids, older kids, teens, and mixed groups. All the racers won a strand of sugar beads (which also were the table decorations).

Youth Group Cooking Pancakes

Cooking Pancakes

Cooking Pancakes

Eating Pancakes

Laura Announcing

John Coaching Little Racers

Pancake Race

Cooks Race

Cooks Race

Pancake Race

Pancake Race

Pancake Race

Pancake Race

Pancake Race

Pancake Race

Pancake Race

Sugar Beads

Images Copyright 2008 by Katy Dickinson

Posted at 12:30PM Feb 07, 2008 by katysblog in Church  | 

SEED Events and Tea Photos

Sun's SEED Engineering mentoring program offers monthly meetings as well as some local events. Most of the monthly meetings are by phone. We are now planning SEED's annual MidTerm in-person meeting, to be on 11 April. We have confirmations so far from the following speakers: Jonathan Schwartz (Chief Executive Officer and President), David Yen (Executive Vice President, Microelectronics), plus Tiki Dare (Associate General Counsel). I am in discussions with other potential presenters now.

SEED's regular monthly meetings provide opportunities for current and alumni program Participants, Managers, and Mentors to get to know each other, share experiences, and talk with Sun executives and engineering leaders. Sometimes the topics are very practical - such as an overview of intellectual property law or how Sun's engineering career paths work - but other talks are intended to broaden awareness of technical or business potentials at Sun.

One of the local SEED events held here on Sun's Menlo Park, CA campus is our weekly tea during which we serve hot tea from all over the world, plus cookies, and other goodies. The weekly tea offers an informal setting in which local and visiting SEEDs who want to know other people in the program can drop by to visit and chat. Tea is held in a library and casual meeting room in Sun Labs called "The Noosphere".

At yesterday afternoon's tea, I took some photos to brighten up the SEED schedule web page. Here they are:

More information on the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program: http://research.sun.com/SEED/

Images Copyright 2008 by Katy Dickinson

Posted at 11:19AM Feb 07, 2008 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |  Comments[1]