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23 June 9:00 Thursday

Summer has come to Tahoe; beautiful, warm, clear weather. Boats on the lake; snow still above 8,000'. Hiking season. Tourists bringing money.

GreenArrays is preparing to test and ship chips. polyForth as well as eForth now runs on the GA144. polyForth will run the test procedure: pretty much a 100% test of nodes, instructions, memory and pins.

Nothing much happening with litigation. I've made a comprehensive settlement offer to Leckrone. Response has been tepid. My reading is that defendants are content with the status quo and will delay as long as they can. I expect that next year a jury will have to decide.

I'm privy to the licensing efforts of Alliacense. Not much success. Excuses include litigation and summer doldrums. It's to my advantage that they preserve the infringer pool until I restore my royalty. I have plans for that $50M.

I just finished Zwiebach's A First Course in String Theory. An excellent undergraduate text. Sadly it confirmed my feeling that string theory is not worth my further study. It is consistent with relativity and quantum mechanics, but has as many assumptions, conditions and parameters as the Standard Model it hopes to explain.