Note: This is the first in a continuing series of blog posts about people in our industry who have creative outlets outside of their “day jobs” in the electronic system design ecosystem. If you are one of them, drop me a line at: bsmith@semi.org
It was a cold and blustery night. I readjusted my muffler and trudged through Boston’s East Fens neighborhood to meet my prey at the local dive bar.
I stomp into Bukowski Tavern across the street from the convention center on the edge of Back Bay. I make my way past the long bar with the regulars slouched in their seats nursing their Oh So Precious IPAs in a dive bar no less to a table in back with more elbowroom. This, after all, isn’t a casual conversation but a serious discussion about crime.
A shadow looms over the table as I check out the typical bar-food menu and wonder what a vegetarian would order …
… and there stands mystery novelist Ray Daniel, better known to our industry as Ray Salemi, who is balancing his writing career with his verification consultant gig for Mentor, a Siemens Business. The thought of debugging chips by day, creating mayhem on the written page by night amuses me as I look into a face boasting a goatee and moustache, befitting a hardboiled mystery writer.
