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Palo Alto

General Voices

John Rusty Harris, 1954-2015

REMEMBERING RUSTY Love from Ann ==== MAKE FULL SCREEN===   Silicon Valley is  a very big story from apricots to autonomous vehicles to augmented reality and artificial intelligence.  It’s exciting and transformative.   It is overwhelming and fabulous.  It’s sad…

robots
Start Ups

THE BEAM (which is not a robot) Dream

 BEAM STORE, Palo Alto, California A couple walks by the storefront, does a double take and stands transfixed staring at what looks like a computer screen on legs having a conversation on the sidewalk with some people. Curious they…

General Start Ups

Note (dot) Cards from the iPhone

I’m ready.  Have Traveling Pepper and I will write to you. I will thank you, invite you, love you, want you, send good wishes, say hello and good-bye and anything in-between.  Yes, that’s how much I like it. But it goes…

Diversity problem in tech
Diversity Voices

Meetup for Whites Only

  Diversity problem in Silicon Valley? Big time. I was going to write about something else  but when I opened this email for a new meet-up: http://www.meetup.com/WHITE-STARTUP-INVESTORS-AND-FOUNDERS/ and my jaw dropped, and my brain went to the news today…

Varsity Theatre
General

The Varsity On University Ave. Palo Alto

This is a walk down Memory Lane. As the Varsity is about to rebirth as a co-sharing work and coffee bar, let us remember all the good things the building has given us, bookstore, yes, but especially the bar,…