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360 View of Glider Hill at Coyote Hills Park in Fremont, California

Silicon Valley Dazed — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:24:15 +0000

http://360.io/7LzwCR

Time to stop and appreciate a rainbow

Silicon Valley Dazed — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:53:05 +0000

It’s a lot easier to stop and appreciate a rainbow when you commute by bike.

Sendmail’s Engineering Development and Research office in Mountain View, CA

Silicon Valley Dazed — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:04:25 +0000

Bird Sculpture at the Baylands Entrance at the end of San Antonio Road

Silicon Valley Dazed — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:13:49 +0000

Steve Jobs and the Mackay he grew up in

Silicon Valley Dazed — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:06:05 +0000

My parents live in the same Mountain View neighborhood and type of home that Steve Jobs grew up in before he moved to Los Altos. I love the amount of light the Mackay floor to ceiling windows let in, but their single pane design can make for a cold home in the winter. The original sales price of these homes built in the 1950s was also around $9,000… http://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/jobs%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98likeler%E2%80%99-no-eichler

Steve Jobs and his first schools

Silicon Valley Dazed — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:08:30 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/malone-loop.html

If you’re interested in origin stories, it starts getting interesting for me at 2.0.1 in this book excerpt. I lived down the street from Monta Loma Elementary, the first school Steve Jobs attended, for almost ten years, and my parents still live in the neighborhood. It’s funny how he demanded a move away from Crittenden Middle School (it’s still known as a “rough” school) and how he started attending Cupertino Junior High. Presently, the Cupertino school district has a high percentage of Chinese and Taiwanese residents who have pushed their kids toward the highest test scores in the state. I can imagine real estate agents mentioning that Steve Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School (where Jobs would meet Wozniak).

Micronesia GDP vs. U.S. Highway Projects

Silicon Valley Dazed — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:44:21 +0000

My company made its first sale ever to a client in the Federated States of Micronesia which is another U.S. protectorate in the Pacific. I saw the GDP according to Wikipedia is $277 million. Contrast that to the local 85/101 interchange project which cost $125.3 million. The U.S. still has a lot of tax dollars at work on their roads.

Mountain View Voice: Squirrel attack sparks lawsuit

Silicon Valley Dazed — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:23:26 +0000

Mountain View Voice: Squirrel attack sparks lawsuit

I need some extra spending money. I think I’m going to slather my body with honey and pine nuts and head down to Cuesta Park. In other parts of this country, those squirrels would have been shot and eaten before they mutated into killer rodents.

Birthplace of Silicon Valley in shambles | The Register

Silicon Valley Dazed — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:55:40 +0000

Birthplace of Silicon Valley in shambles | The Register

I’ve driven past this building many times, but I never realized it was the home of Shockley Labs. My office used to be a short walk to 844 E. Charleston which is only a few miles away right off San Antonio. This address is significant because it was the site of Fairchild Semiconductor where Robert Noyce created the first integrated chip that was ready for commercial production.

Weird Stuff Truck

Silicon Valley Dazed — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:04:48 +0000

Weird Stuff buys and sells surplus computer equipment. A great name for a company that tries to recycle all the tech detritus of Silicon Valley.