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23 October 2004 10 Comments

Silicon Valley Cracks Me Up

It’s sort of a little oasis of 1999 in a desert of 2004, if you feel where I’m coming from. It’s wall to wall tech folks from Dot Coms and their lives revolve around this fact. Take, for instance, Jeremy Zawodny’s story

I headed up to San Francisco last night with Mark (another Yahoo) to Meet the Feedsters. It was an enjoyable evening with good food and even better converstaion.

Feedster now has seven employees. And I even got a free dinner as a “finders fee” for referring Ray, one of the newest (and a former Yahoo). I also got to meet Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame. We talked of FeedMesh, Ping-O-Matic, MovableType, and so on.

In contrast, I’m a tech guy in the Baltimore/Washington area and last night I went to a local bar and got drunk while talking football with a friend of mine. It’s a different world.

Now I’m not saying Siliconites don’t do anything but live tech but thats not the impression portrayed.

Having said all that, I’d gladly give up my days in Baltimore/Washington to take up life in the Valley. Just haven’t had an opportunity.

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Written by Aaron Brazell on October 23, 2004

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10 Responses to “Silicon Valley Cracks Me Up”

  1. Ingoal 18 November 2004 at 9:10 pm #

    Old school…1970s:
    “You’ve decided for the world that it’s time for a change. Join the geek revolution”
    (see here: http://www.ingoal.info/archives/2004/11/18/geek/trackback/)

    :-)

  2. Ingoal 23 October 2004 at 5:04 pm #

    Old school…1970s:

    “You’ve decided for the world that it’s time for a change. Join the geek revolution”

    (see here: <a href=”http://www.ingoal.info/archives/2004/11/18/geek/trackback/%29
    http://www.ingoal.info/archives/2004/11/18/geek... />

    :-)

  3. Aaron Brazell 10 June 2005 at 6:06 pm #

    Hey Admin at bbspot, nice of you to provide a real email address. Come on, mate. You know how to reach me if you’re for real. Attribution is in the link back to bbspot. So get over it.

  4. Aaron Brazell 23 October 2004 at 7:21 pm #

    Hey Admin at bbspot, nice of you to provide a real email address. Come on, mate. You know how to reach me if you’re for real. Attribution is in the link back to bbspot. So get over it.

  5. Andy Wheeler 21 November 2004 at 7:51 am #

    Consider making your lesson plans available here.

  6. Carol 19 November 2004 at 8:49 pm #

    I added Nykola to my blogroll, too — she’s a riot.

  7. Andy Wheeler 24 October 2004 at 12:56 pm #

    Consider making your lesson plans available here.

  8. Carol 24 October 2004 at 1:29 pm #

    I added Nykola to my blogroll, too — she’s a riot.

  9. Vinnie Garcia 26 October 2004 at 6:53 pm #

    Yeah, here in Philly you talk about the Eagles and whether Pat’s or Gino’s has the best steaks, not blogging. :)

  10. Vinnie Garcia 26 October 2004 at 7:53 pm #

    Yeah, here in Philly you talk about the Eagles and whether Pat’s or Gino’s has the best steaks, not blogging. :)