The City!

Never stops fascinating me.

Yummy!

This was in a creamery at Manhattan Beach in LA!

Hiking the Donner Creek Trail

Holiday Cheer!!

Ulistac Natural Area

Ulistac Natural Area, 40 acres of open space that showcases seven distinctive natural habitats -- including grasslands, woodlands, wetlands, and savannah -- opened in Santa Clara on May 12, 2001 after months of volunteer efforts to restore California native vegetation and preserve wildlife habitat.

The park is located along the Guadalupe River on Lick Mill Boulevard between Tasman Drive and Montague Expressway. Public access is provided from Lick Mill Boulevard and the creekside trail along the Guadalupe River.

Oh I am Clueless

Gliding in the thousand skies
I could hear ur inmost cries
Left in the middle of Limbo
Laughing out the mask i guise
Oh I am Clueless

Autumn winds blew in raging race
crushing the interior with a mace
Disfigured soul or disfigured face
Withering the mask to a fresh base
Oh I am Clueless

A Stranger standing within a mile
Crushes the mask in a sand pile
Helpless I stand without a rile
A skulker saint or a sheer wile
Oh I am Clueless


Grays in nite, neither black nor white
Desperate Heart, neither wrong nor right
Burn the white flag and uphold the fight
No reason to bring black to light
Oh I am Clueless

Aping the Apple! - Computer History Museum , Mountain View

I wanted to go to this one since a long time. But I could take time out for it only after 1 year of being in Silicon Valley. It is located near Shoreline Blvd in Mountain View close to Google Offices!!. The building is a magnificent construction thanks to donation of a Silicon Valley company whose name I dont recollect..

The first thing which greets you after you enter the lobby is the super computer Cray! It is so modern in its exteriors that the cooling fans are covered by the leather seating. U can actually sit on it!! Now as you traverse ahead there is a huge rack of age old Apples! which tell the story of UI Giant and shows the respect they pay to detail. There are also variety of calculators and other counting and measuring machines. The IBM census machine is worth a second look. Also the various boards displayed in IBM offices in different locations in different languages just emphasize on one thing , 'THINK'!

There are lot of first ever huge gigantic machines built. Analog, Digital, Storage, Embedded they have them all. There is a whole aisle devoted to Cray family and the modern designs inspite of messy wires do catch your eye. There is also a section for Robots. There is one called Tommy ..looks pretty cute I must say and ofcourse they have Ibo.

There is also a corner devoted to the game of Chess, my favourite game. It is a delight for any chess lover. Last but not the least there is a display of the advent of Silicon Valley bigges and their success stories and yeh they have the Cisco's first ever Router!

There is also an impressive section showing the various gaming consoles and they look pretty ancient especially the ones from Atri. The Museum is also researching to restore and age old technology IBM gaming machine.


All in all, it was an afternoon well spent.