Here’s a scene you would only see in Silicon Valley: this is an example of the magazines in the waiting room when I went to get a cholesterol test today at the Santa Clara Kaiser Permanente medical center…

Here’s a scene you would only see in Silicon Valley: this is an example of the magazines in the waiting room when I went to get a cholesterol test today at the Santa Clara Kaiser Permanente medical center…

When the time came, my film wasn’t among the three finalists; but I still managed to plaster on a smile for the winners, the team from Atlanta. Nevertheless, I now have a trophy for winning the DC competition, and [more...]
A story in today’s Washington Post notes that, according to census figures, the DC region has the second-highest income of any major metropolitan area in the country. I started to bemoan my move, until I realized [more...]
Just yesterday, I was talking with someone about earthquakes and how, after two years in the Bay Area, I hadn’t experienced more than a tiny sway. And then this morning the voice on the radio told me that there [more...]