This talk of dinner in Mountain View makes me feel oddly nostalgic & caught-in-a-time-warp-ish.
I shan't forget my first trip to Mountain View (to visit the headquarters of Sun Microsystems, having traveled across the USA from Boston, arriving at my hotel 1AM local time.) As I pulled my rental car onto Highway 101 North from SFO airport I turned on the radio. The song "These Dreams" by Heart came on. It was trippy. When I got to the hotel, the ancient desk clerk (probably about the age I am now) made a pass at me. That was mildly disturbing. I got to the room and turned on the television. Every channel was saturated with the news of the day: the catastrophic disintegration of the Space Shuttle Challenger, with the loss of all hands. I spent nearly 9 years working for Sun, and made, by rough calculation, 80 round-trip transcontinental flights: 80 stays in Mountain View & environs. I believe that I spent at least one night in every hotel in the city (not to mention Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, etc). There were very many things I liked about Sun Microsystems and I made many good friends while working there; a few dozen of whom I'm still in touch with. I left Sun for good in summer, 1994. But I don't know if I could go stand to go back to Mountain View for a Silkmeet, even if I happened to be as close as San Francisco or San Jose. I have a feeling that the emotions of loneliness and nostalgia would overpower me & make me a very poor dinner companion. I spent many lonely nights dining alone in Mountain View eateries and many a lonely night in Mountain View hotels. BUT ENOUGH OF THIS WHINEY-ASS stuff. I hope y'all enjoy yourselves, wherever you happen to meet up. Anyone wanting to get a feel for what Mountain View in the late 1980's-early 90's felt like to at least one observer, you might want to check out the novel Acts of the Apostles, written by a Silklister. Regards, jrs P.S. "These Dreams" by Heart -- "It's funny how, in dreams, your feet never touch the earth." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P8UxneDJE On Jul 10, 2013, at 6:09 PM, Thaths wrote: > Lets meet for dinner in downtown Mountain View on Thursday, July 18th at > 6:30 pm. > > S. > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Anish Mohammed > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Both are good for me :) >> >> Anish Mohammed >> Twitter: anishmohammed >> http://uk.linkedin.com/in/anishmohammed >> Skype: thecryptic >> >> On 10 Jul 2013, at 22:27, Werner Goveya <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Werner Goveya <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> How does dinner in Mountain View on Jul 10 sound to everyone? >>>>> >>>>> Are we still meeting this evening? >>>> >>>> Sorry. I completely forgot about this and can't make it today. >>>> >>>> Would next Tuesday or Thursday work for people? >>> Sure, for me, Thursday (18th) works better than Tuesday (16th) >>> - werner >> >> > > > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo!
