Five Guys, famous for their burgers and fries, just opened a new location in San Jose, California at the Westlake Shopping Center on Prospect Avenue. This brings the total Silicon Valley area Five Guy’s locations to 9 with locations in Sunnyvale, Fremont, Belmont, Redwood City and multiple locations within the sprawling borders of the city of San Jose.
Check out the Five Guys store locator map here.
A true sign winter is coming. The rain was heavy at times. Enough to wash the dust out of the air and make the roads slick.
Gas at many stations in the Silicon Valley area will now set you back $4.75 or more a gallon. Regular unleaded gasoline is now more expensive than California’s number 2 diesel.
Due to refinery shortages on the west coast, supply of refined gasoline has been limited. Less supply means higher prices passed on to the consumer. One more high cost that exists in California that doesn’t exist in better managed states. How long can California citizens take these higher costs before they decide to move to Texas?
While all of the technology and digital widgets can be fun, sometimes you just have to get outside and do something physical, not virtual.
Here’s a list of a few local running events around Silicon Valley and the Bay Area:
In the heart of Silicon Valley in San Jose is the Rock ‘n’ Roll San Jose Half Marathon on October 7th 2012
Further out in the mountain playground of Lake Tahoe is the Tough Mudder Nor-Cal.
To prepare yourself for the 25 military style obstacles, you can train like this guy:
And one that’s not quite in the neighborhood:
The Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend includes a 5k, Half Marathon and a Full Marathon in Orlando, Florida in January 2013. You can also choose to run the “Goofy”, Goofy’s Race and a Half Challenge. A 39.3-mile run that combines the half and full marathons on Saturday and Sunday (12-13 January 2013)
Note the quote from Walt Disney on the front: “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” Apt words for the dreamers here in the Valley
The Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend is again offering free runner tracking through this site: http://live.xacte.com/wdw/alerts/ Track your runner via SMS text message, email, Twitter or other social media with their Xact Event Alerts.
And coming up next year is the 2nd annual 408k 8K road race in San Jose. This race starts from downtown San Jose and runs to Santana Row. The “Race to the Row” is on March 10th 2013. #run408 Bring your running shoes…and your credit card!
Panorama of the city by the bay with views of Alcatraz and the Palace of Fine Arts from the Presidio’s famous Inspiration Point.
Chick-fil-A is hiring for positions at the soon to be open location at the North First Street development just off of 237.
Chick-fil-A will be open in San Jose exactly 10 days from today on Thursday, August 16th 2012.
Well, it looks like the Chick-fil-A in San Jose grand opening has been pushed back a week.
Chick-fil-A will be joining Chipotle, 5 Guys Burgers, Panda Express, Panera Bread and a few other quick food spots. Can’t wait to hit them up for those tasty Chick-fil-A breakfast biscuits! The only other Chick-fil-A locations any where near Silicon Cali are in Fairfield and Rocklin on the way to North Lake Tahoe. Nice to have one in the heart of the valley.
Scheduled to open on Thursday, August 16th 2012,
53 Headquarters Dr
San Jose, CA 95134
Opens: August 16, 2012
http://www.chick-fil-a.com/Locations/Openings
The first 100 win food for a year!
I’m enjoying the sound of some much needed rain here in Silicon Cali. It’s been a very dry winter here. Most of the rain and snow has been stuck up north all winter long. Just in case you aren’t lucky enough to be here enjoying the rain in Silicon Cali, you can always see the current weather conditions in the valley with the weather widget on the right side of the page just below the tag cloud.
Or if you are running Windows 7, you can use the Windows 7 Weather Widget or ‘Gadget’ as Microsoft calls them:
To get the Windows 7 weather gadget, just right click on your screen background and choose the weather gadget. You’ll have to use the settings to set it up for the area of your choice. The two different weather widgets obviously don’t get their data from the same source, but they both offer a quick graphical update of weather conditions that is mostly accurate.
Awesome view from the snowy summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii with a glowing orb floating among the high tech telescopes. What is that glowing orb floating around? A UFO? Or an artifact easily explained by the science of optics and light?
Why yes, even giant Squishable Androids need a break from all that flying around the circuits of your smartphones and tablets.
SiliconCali.com will be taking a break this week. Many more posts coming that will cover Unix, Linux and Windows sysadmin as well as tech and travel. Have a good week!
How high will they go? Gas prices in California are already near the 5 dollar mark in many places, and even exceeding 5 dollars a gallon at some LA gas stations.
Gas prices in California are only a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico away from 5 or 6 dollar a gallon gas. And even though the United States imports no oil from Iran, rumors of war push the whole oil market higher. Which ultimately pushes refined gasoline prices higher. Eventually gas prices in California may make the cost of a Tesla Model S compared to a gas powered four door sedan more attractive.
