Wow, Roy Clay Sr. was such a pioneer: leader of the development of HP’s first computer, the first Black executive at HP, the first Black elected to the Palo Alto City Council, and so on. The history of Black Americans in Silicon Valley and the tech industry needs to be better known.
Category Archives: San Francisco Bay Area
Steve Jobs presents plans for Apple’s new campus
Just one day after his keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs made an appearance last night at the Cupertino City Council to present the company’s plans for a new campus in Cupertino, on the old Hewlett-Packard site. It essentially consists of one giant building shaped like a doughnut that will hold 12,000 people. …
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Cupertino gets a new bookstore… Crown Books?
Remember this slogan? “If you paid full price, you didn’t buy it at Crown Books.” Another company bought the naming rights to Crown after it went bankrupt in 2001, and the chain has opened a store in Cupertino. This incarnation of Crown Books buys remainders and overstock at big discounts and passes the savings onto …
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News flash: Cupertino housing is expensive
From the Cupertino Courier: Higher prices make it harder to buy a home in Cupertino A concern frequently expressed by some city council members and planning commissioners is that Cupertino homes are become so expensive many families cannot afford to move here…. “In the first six months of the year, it was a seller’s market. …
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My life in two days
This past weekend kept me quite busy. On Saturday I met a college friend for lunch and then went to a potluck dinner with my high school friends. On Sunday I met up with another college friend to go the dragon boat festival, where a friend I’ve known since elementary school was racing. Afterwards I …
Phil Frank, Bay Area cartoonist, dies
I was truly saddened when I read in the San Francisco Chronicle that Phil Frank died yesterday. Phil Frank drew the only local comic strip in the country, Farley, which was published in the Chronicle. Indeed he captured the spirit of the Bay Area through his cast of distinctive and wacky characters, and because it …
Cody’s Books’ Telegraph store to close
Kepler's Books in Menlo Park may have barely survived, but other venerable indies are hurting. The main Cody's Books store on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley is closing. I have fond memories browsing through (and even buying!) books there. Although its two smaller stores will remain open, this hurts.
More restaurants to try
Courtesy of San Francisco magazine and Check, Please: Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant in the Sunset district of San Francisco (Muslim Chinese) Naomi Sushi in Menlo Park Woodward's Garden in San Francisco (Californian/French), named after the amusement park which used to be on the same site Los Cubanos in San Jose (Cuban)
Visiting San Francisco
It’s odd that, now that I’m living in the South Bay, I seem to be going to San Francisco more often than I was in Berkeley. In fact, I’ve gone up once a week for the past 4 weeks: to visit Francis, Simona, Rich, and Agata [photo]; Ame and Chris’s wedding reception; a Super Bowl …
Restaurants to try out
There a few restaurants that have been featured on Check, Please! Bay Area on KQED Channel 9 that I want to try out. Ninna in Oakland: Mediterranean/Thai fusion. Sounds weird, but all three reviewers thoroughly enjoyed it. Piperade in San Francisco: Basque Bissap Baobab in San Francisco: Senegalese Aziza in San Francisco: California-inspired Morrocan (or …