{"id":780,"date":"2008-09-29T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-13T20:39:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:39:12","slug":"visiting-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/29\/visiting-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a nice place&#8230; but I wouldn&#8217;t want to live there.<br \/>Spent a few days in Santa Clara at Foundry Networks for a training class. Found a few things interesting:<br \/>1.) There are a lot of Pakistani living there.<br \/>2.) People don&#8217;t give a crap about driving laws.<br \/>3.) Santa Clara is very well kept.<br \/>4.) Can&#8217;t talk on the phone and drive at the same time (oops!)<br \/>5.) There are fifteen million Indian <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">restaurants<\/span>.<br \/>6.) People are not all that friendly there.<br \/>7.) The airport is a nightmare (they are updating it though).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those trips that makes you really appreciate home.<br \/>Here are a couple of pics:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251849590418629122\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/IMG_1245.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/>Heres a pic from my rental car. On the left is Citrix on the right is Foundry.<\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251849233062266098\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer\" height=\"173\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/0916081751.jpg\" width=\"196\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251849367406318130\" style=\"WIDTH: 163px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 168px\" height=\"189\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/0916081752.jpg\" width=\"181\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/div>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=\"left\">These 2 are from inside Foundry who was Lucasfilm used in the production of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. Thats a switch on the left. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a nice place&#8230; but I wouldn&#8217;t want to live there.Spent a few days in Santa Clara at Foundry Networks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}