Archives for November 2017

Clearly, it's the dizzying Zen mountaintop of transcendent American consumerism: the Apple Store on Black Friday. Even for the privilege of talking to clerk about a MacBook, I was told the wait was 35 minutes. In that moment I stared into the abyss....empty and forlorn....inadequate access to the Apple buying process. Then I rallied, briefly checked out the new iPhone X -- which seemed needlessly complex -- and walked back out into the mall, a vibrant minnow swimming in the invigorating waters of holiday commerce.

Ah, life in the Bay Area: even the coffee shops can be techie in San Francisco and surrounding areas. I was walking down the street in Berkeley and spotted Algorithm Coffee. Perhaps a dude or dudette is dreaming of a start up in there?