Panorama of the city by the bay with views of Alcatraz and the Palace of Fine Arts from the Presidio’s famous Inspiration Point.
Inspiration Point in the Presidio San Francisco
Chick-fil-A coming to San Jose
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,
Chick-fil-A Restaurant First Street San Jose Location
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!
Big things have small beginnings. Why yes they do.
Big things have small beginnings. A quote from Lawrence of Arabia? Or some other recent film? Prometheus I presume?
Big things have small beginnings. Why yes they do. SiliconCali.com. It’s a storm in a tea cup. But will grow slowly as more content is added. Currently this tiny site has been viewed in over 85 countries and growing.
Below is the current WordPress Statistic map from since February 2012 when they started showing country data:
Heat Wave hits Silicon Valley
Feeling toasty? The temperature will be hitting 100 degrees here in the Silicon Valley area. Stay hydrated today! Looks like a good day to hit up your local Pink Berry for some cold refreshment.
Sun Breaks Through the Clouds in Portland, OR
SiliconCali and friends are taking a quick weekend break north of Cali in friendly Portland, Oregon. Where the air is cool and refreshing, the city is dog and bike friendly and the legendary local brews of coffee and beer await sipping with friends.
The sun may just peek out from behind the clouds and shine down on Portlandia.
Two local brews enjoying the city scape of Portland in the late afternoon light.
A hoppy IPA from Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) and a stubby bottle of Stumptown Coffee Roasters invigorating Cold Brew Coffee. If you like cold black coffee, you can drink this one straight from the stubby bottle. No bitterness at all and absolutely nothing like any canned coffees found in convenience stores. Just the smoothest, pure coffee flavor that you can find in an ice cold coffee. You’ll have to try Stumptown’s Cold Brew.
Stumptown Coffee is available in the Bay Area at The Restaurant at Meadowood in Napa Valley
A must stop at Powell’s Books:
Alaska Airlines puts on a show with their Sled Dog Float in Portland Oregon’s 100th annual Grand Floral Parade
When you’re in Portland, don’t forget to check out the Hopworks Bike Bar beer menu, 10 beers on tap all the time and all organic. You can even help power this sustainable brewery with the “Golden Lions” stationary bike generators with pint holders to securely hold your brew while you pedal.
Google Honors Robert Moog with Synthesizer Logo
Google’s engineers designed a working digital synthesizer as today’s Google logo.
Rare Annular Solar Eclipse to be Visible from Bay Area May 20 2012
A rare annular solar eclipse will be visible from Bay Area and SiliconCali on May 20 2012.
This animated map shows how much of the sun will be covered by the moon in different parts of California. The center line of the solar eclipse will pass by north of Eureka but will be at least partly visible throughout the state.
Venture Lab Survey for Team RingCrowd
The free online Technology Entrepreneurship class through Stanford University is basically an online version of Y Combinator. Startup Teams form around a central business idea and develop that idea using Lean Startup techniques. Team RingCrowd developed this survey in order to understand the biggest limitations an entrepreneur faces when forming a startup company and would really appreciate your feedback by filling out the following:
OUR PROMISE:
We will never SPAM you. We believe that the marketing model of SPAM-until-you-buy is outdated and doesn’t work. By checking the box you are guaranteed to receive a follow up email from us (and one only) and can opt-in on a per email basis if you would like to continue receiving updates (instead of opting-out). If we are going to send something out we want for it to be helpful for the recipient.
Thank you so very much for your time and we really hope everyone is having fun with the class assignments.
respectfully,
the RingCrowd Team
Taking Virgin America Across the Country Again
Another flight out of SFO on Silicon Valley’s own tech friendly airline. Complete with USB plugs, power plugs and a touch screen entertainment system that runs Linux.
And in-flight Google Maps!
How many domestic airlines have mood lighting?
A good way to begin your flight from SFO’s terminal 2 is to hit up Pinkberry for some swirly goodness while you fire off a few quick emails on SFO’s free wireless before boarding. While you can use Virgin America’s on board Wi-Fi service to get some work done, you can’t use it until the plane gets up to cruising altitude, so you’ll have a brief period of disconnected down time. Cherish this brief moment of Zen and collect your thoughts.
If you don’t feel the need to spring for the GoGo in-flight WiFi on Virgin America, you can still browse a few things using the free WiFi service on the plane. The flight tracker is interesting and a little more configurable than the Google Maps on the headrest screens.
I uploaded this screen shot while high in the sky on the flight and the connection speed wasn’t too bad. Sometimes the WiFi internet connection is intermittent, but syncs right back up once the ground based signal is strong again. GoGo in-flight internet uses the ground based cellular network, so the signal has to be passed from antenna to antenna just as it would if you were using a mobile phone in a car, but it has to work at 500 miles per hour 8 miles above the antennas. On a flight that is not quite full the connection remains about as fast as DSL. But if everyone on the plane starts watching YouTube, then the shared connection will slow to a crawl.
Napa Valley Panorama
