Entries Tagged as ‘silicon valley’

December 19, 2007

correlation between a city’s gay population and technology success

This mediocre book, by Richard Florida, presents an interesting fact: there’s a strong correlation between the gay population of a city and its success in the technology industry.  San Francisco is a good example.  We have the highest GLB percentage of any city (according to wikipedia) and are also known as a high tech mecca.  [...]

September 27, 2007

lunch 2.0 at FamilyOven.com

Thank you, familyoven.com, for such a delicious lunch today. If I stayed at my office, I would’ve missed the exotic mushroom risotto and fantastic view in exchange for eating California Pizza Kitchen at my desk.
Now the thank-you is over with, I can start to be opinionated:
I hate the name Family Oven. It alludes [...]

September 26, 2007

SF Beta- 1 year anniversary party

I’m a pretty big fan of SF Beta Parties. They’re always a lovely addition to my weekdays and it’s the only place where nerds aren’t so afraid to initiate conversation (I’m assuming the “networking event” tagline is what helps).
This week was the 1-year anniversary party, sans open bar. I dragged my roommate Michelle, [...]

August 23, 2007

field trip

In my attempts to take my interns out of the office once in a while, I took them for a tour of the CNET building just down the street…Andrew gave us a lovely tour of their geek country-club graced with city views, thousands of video games, chocolate cup-cakes, and lots of orange paint.I’m looking for [...]

August 10, 2007

Who said there’s no such thing as a free lunch?

Whoever said there’s no such thing as a free lunch obviously doesn’t live in Silicon Valley. I get free lunches all the time. Five free lunches a week to be exact. (Not to mention five free dinners and endless snacks and soda– not unusual for Silicon Valley).
When I’m not eating for [...]