Quick notes on California
August 29, 2006
- Only in flights to San Francisco can you sit next to and have pleasant chats with a marketing director of HP.
- There is an ad poster for Ubuntu Linux on freeway 101, going towards Mountain View.
- I am in culture shock over the change in scale of things.
- A Peugeot 407 is a small car.
- Anti-gas-guzzling-car lobbyists must be depressed.
- A small road is 2 lanes wide in each direction, plus a bike path on each side.
- Pedestrians don’t exist, only cars.
- The small main street in Mountain View is the length of Belfort north to south, and has about twice the number of pubs, restaurants and shops.
- When you buy food, you have 1 month to decide you don’t want it. You get refunded upon returning it.
- It is always sunny in Mountain View.
- When people complain about the weather, they are talking about the slight overcast in the morning, the one that soon gives way to nothing but blue skies.
- Jet lag isn’t that bad in this direction.
- I have trouble grasping the concept that it is 2am in my biological timezone, when the sun says it is 5pm.
- Google has a cool sculpture opposite building 43.
- I’m going to eat at Google tonight.
- The previous fact produces a surprising amount of childish excitement in me.
- Wheeeeeee!