Apparently the castle project ran up against a nightmare of stubborn California regulators. Whether it will eventually exist or not is still up in the air. (I was always hoping that it wouldn’t, since the San Jose site, and the Palo Alto site before that, was good for evening socializing with workshop colleagues. The castle site would be isolated, and force everything including meals to be onsite, a model which works well at the institute in Oberwolfach but I think would be stifling at AIM.)
I think they will probably be washed away by the big river like everyone else.
When Radio Shack closed lots of people shrugged their shoulders or were positively gleeful, but it was a real problem for people in states like mine without a Microcenter or Fry’s; it is really irritating to have to wait for days for that specialty battery or fuse to get there by mail, and expensive when a 20 cent fuse has a $5 shipping cost attached.
