{"id":579,"date":"2019-02-25T07:47:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life.lithoguru.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2019-02-25T07:48:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:48:34","slug":"spie-advanced-lithography-symposium-2019-day-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"SPIE Advanced Lithography Symposium 2019 \u2013 day 0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLet\u2019s\ncall it like it is:&nbsp; I\u2019m a nerd.&nbsp; In fact, I\u2019m an uber nerd.&nbsp; Other nerds say \u201cI want to be nerdy like him.\u201d&nbsp; The easiest way you can tell I\u2019m a nerd?&nbsp; I love being in San Jose the last week in\nFebruary.&nbsp; It is my favorite week of the\nyear!&nbsp; The weather\u2019s not too great\n(though I don\u2019t get outside much to see it), and I certainly don\u2019t get around\nto see the sites (except the new Uproar brewery down the street).&nbsp; I\u2019m here for only one thing \u2013 the SPIE\nAdvanced Lithography Symposium.&nbsp; And I\nlove everything about it.&nbsp; The people,\nthe papers, teaching an exhausting course all day Sunday, committee meetings,\nstandards meetings, free beer, the panel discussion (at least this year), last-minute\npresentation preparation, lots of coffee in the morning, giving talks,\nlistening to talks, asking hard questions, seeing old friends and meeting new ones,\nhallway conversations, getting that one great idea that changes everything, seeing\nthe next generation of lithographers take over from us old ones, seeing the old\nones still hanging on, late nights, early mornings, more beer, and learning\nlearning learning.&nbsp; I absolutely love it\nall.&nbsp; Let the week begin!\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s call it like it is:&nbsp; I\u2019m a nerd.&nbsp; In fact, I\u2019m an uber nerd.&nbsp; Other nerds say \u201cI want to be nerdy like him.\u201d&nbsp; The easiest way you can tell I\u2019m a nerd?&nbsp; I love being in San Jose the last week in February.&nbsp; It is my favorite week of the year!&nbsp; The weather\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microlithography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}