Posts Tagged ‘siliconvalley’
The Silicon Valley Tourist
Sunday, August 8th, 2004
The overwhelming interest generated by a link to photos I took of the Apple campus has prompted me to finally post pictures I was saving for later. I introduce to you The Silicon Valley Tourist, a gallery of Silicon Valley signage I took over a span of several weeks.* A boring set of snapshots perhaps to some but I’m sure it would interest a couple of you out there. The album is by no means complete. I plan to visit Google, Adobe, Intel (which is really tough to take a picture of), HP and others soon.
You may be wondering why I frame the company signs between my index finger and my thumb. Well, I figured that’s the only way I could include myself in the picture. At first I thought about using the Pets.com sock puppet or the Geekman action figure as my prop. But in this post-9/11 era, holding up an indiscernible object with a camera pointed at an American high-tech icon would only cause a swarm of SWAT team members to surround me in a matter of seconds. So I settled for my ultra-portable, less suspicious-looking appendages. Besides, there’s something empowering about holding Corporate America between one’s fingers. Mwuhahaha… squish, squish…
*for a true tour of historic Silicon Valley, I direct you to this guy.
Update: Adobe pics are up!
Deposed Depot
Tuesday, October 21st, 2003
Here’s a train depot no longer used but historically preserved along my bike route to work in Santa Clara, CA. The sign above says “From New Orleans 2433 8/10 MI To San Francisco 41 7/10 MI.” Wow.
According to a plaque on the side of the depot building, which was built between 1877 and 1878, a “team of draft horses hauled freight cars from the depot down a short branch line to the lick paper mills and the state asylum to the east.” The state asylum now houses Sun Microsystem’s headquarters across the street.
