Catherine rang me while I was at work yesterday to let me know that I had a letter from the courthouse in Santa Clara country demanding (it doesn’t make it sound all that optional) that I attend at the “Municipal Hall of Justice” for jury duty. Yes, they really called it that. Yes, I thought…
Tag: california
Dave and Busters
To celebrate a recent launch the team went out to an “adult arcade” called Dave and Busters today. An adult arcade is pretty much what it sounds like — imagine a huge collection of arcade games, pool tables, bar, and restaurant. I of course had the most American thing I could find, which was a…
Mi Pueblo
The phrase “Mi Pueblo” is remarkably over used, which made web surfing for this one hard. For some time, Catherine has been doing some of our food shopping at the little Spanish grocery store in Mountain View. For the first time I went along yesterday (she normally goes when I am at work). Imagine a…
Mountain View WiFi
I’m sitting in a park in Mountain View at the moment, and the Mountain View Google WiFi works just fine. That’s totally cool. It makes me think about all those random crazy projects I can now implement where a computer in my car needs an internet connection to work right. Hmmmmmm… I guess that’s another…
The wreck of the dominator
Another old thing to visit when next I happen to be somewhere: the the wreck of the Dominator in LA. Via SJH who found it on Metafilter. Oh, and the the guide to forgotten LA places is cool too (via Dan Goods).
Did I mention it’s hot here?
California is suffering under a record heat wave, I find it odd that people debate whether there is global warming, when we keep hitting new temperature records. Then again, as a single person I feel rather unempowered to actually do much about fixing the whole thing.
Proposition 82
California has this strange direct funding system, where the electorate can mandate a given amount of funding for a specific line item, and not involve the politicians in the future decision making. Wikipedia doesn’t have an article on proposition 82 yet (I might make one…), but here is an example of a previous proposition. Proposition…
Light rail, oh how I love thee
One thing I think that Canberra really lacks is a light rail system. My travels over the last few years have made me realize that one of the things that makes a city a great place to live is a good light rail system. The first one of these systems that I saw was in…
List of VTA station addresses
Oh, and this list of VTA station addresses is very useful…
VTA station for the Santa Clara Convention Center
I’m doing public transport research for MySQL user’s conference next week. Here is how to get from the VTA station at Old Ironsides to the Santa Clara Convention Center.