Scenes from Silicon Valley:

• Got Bandwidth? WE DO. -sign outside apartment complex on El Camino Real.
• Overheard in the Big Long Line at Fry’s: “For Christmas I told my sister, she’s a teacher, that I’d create a database for her to keep track of her student records, but I don’t think she really appreciated the value of it. I mean, do you know how much I make an hour?”
• Jan 15, 2000: Worried about a risky operating system upgrade (with Windows there is no other kind), girlhacker sends email to a friend to let him know what she’s about to do — just in case something goes terribly wrong and she drops off the face of the Internet. She briefly considers and then opts out of creating a will. Let the cat have everything.
• I can’t believe I’m linking to this. But where are all the geeks? Craig Newmark is the only “hardcore Java programmer” of the lot.

(The upgrade went fine. I gave the cat rights to the air space over my monitor as a consolation prize.)