Of course, it won't be all that bad. I'll have Ágota over for the week and we are going to watch the ESC together. And probably do a whole bunch of other interesting things too.
What I'm trying to say is that I probably won't be able to write every day. I'll try, of course, but then again real life comes first.
So... because today I have to start with one of those damn essays (something about SO2 and health) I'm going to have only a single topic.
Since the start of this blog I had some people reading my stuff every single day. As you probably all know by now, I get the most clicks from all over California, Palo Alto in particular. So I thought it would be nice to give something for those guys from there - even though I still have no idea who they actually are. (And when I have the time I will post a couple of things of other cities too).
Palo Alto is, as I said, in California in Santa Clara County. It's one of the most expensive cities in the United States, with high-tech technology companies like Hewlett-Packard, VMware, Tesla Motors, Ning, IDEO,Palantir Technologies, Google,Facebook, Logitech,Intuit, Sun Microsystems,and PayPal residing in it.
It got its name from the Redwood tree, that grows around the place.
I always wanted to see those trees - I remember that when I was a kid we had an old Encarta CD and I used to look at pictures of awesome places from all around the world. Thankfully we have the internet at our disposal since then, so It's a lot easier to get info.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Palo Alto is also where you will find Stanford University - and I'm pretty sure that we all heard about that place. This is how it looks like:
Palo Alto is also home to other interesting places. Here are some of them:
Arastradero Preserve
Arizona Cactus Garden
Elizabeth Gamble Garden
Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve
There are of course a bunch of other nice places there you could visit - I just picked out a couple I was best interested in.
And since I mentioned those well-known companies, here are a bunch of people from the place, you might know:
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.
David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo!
Steve Jobs, deceased co-founder of Apple Inc.; lived in Palo Alto 1980-2011; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
Jawed Karim, co-founder of Youtube.
William Hewlett, deceased co-founder of technology company Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
David Packard, deceased co-founder of technology company Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto
Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of Google.
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook.
Owen Van Natta, COO of Facebook, CEO of Myspace, COO of Zynga.
I'm actually quite surprised at this. I didn't realize that most of these people are from the same place- probably because I didn't really care. Which is a shame since I use the stuff they made daily. But there, now I know. And all of you guys who read my blog know too. And, of course, if you want to read even more about the city, feel free to click here.
