<div class="gmail_quote">David Lubkin wrote:</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the death of my father,<br>Dr. Yale Jay Lubkin. Mathematician, professor, electrical<br>and aerospace engineer, farmer, failed politician in two countries,<br>
inventor, columnist, writer, colonel in military intelligence,<br>competitive pistol shooter, 4 SD intellect, father of thirteen<br>extraordinary kids, unquenchable punster, political advisor,<br>humorist, Zionist from Flatbush; inventor of the Permissive Action<br>
Link; pioneer in drone aircraft, microwaves, electronic warfare,<br>acoustics, speech recognition; amateur photographer, sf reader,<br>and dozens more descriptors.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">I am very sad to hear about the loss of your father, even ten years after the event. I suspect I may be losing my own fairly soon. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Your dad seems to have been a real renaissance man! And thirteen kids... Wow! I have an uncle that I never got to meet, who was in some ways cut from similar cloth. He was an IBM Fellow, and I also think inducted into an engineering hall of fame. But did I inherit "good at math" genes? Nope! </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">>Lots to like. Lots not to. But certainly not someone you'd ever<br>>forget.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Yeah, I know about that...</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Best wishes,</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">John</div>
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