Sandeep Cariapa

@crwinters @RetroBayArea Yep. I was at the grand opening of the SGI building in late 97, which later became the GooglePlex. Bocce ball, clowns on stilts, everything.

@RetroBayArea I remember being at the SGI campus long before Google, it was right next to Shoreline

Mountain View before Google. Before Google moved in and transformed it, Mountain View was a quiet and working class suburb, the kind of place that in the 1980s felt like the setting of Stranger Things. 🧵1/4

@roviojha @vonbrauckmann I visit IN every 5 years or so. You might not feel it because you are there but the progress is amazing. It will be fine.

@cariapa @vonbrauckmann Exactly! India will never be developed, even in the next 1000 years, because of the Fabian strategy working so deeply here.

Don't tell India, they hate stuff like this. They want to blame Britain for everything and can't stomach the fact that Nehruvian-Gandhi socialism is the real cause of the economic stagnation that existed until it was liberated on May 26th, 2014.

@RetroBayArea Beverly Hills Cop 3 was filmed there as well. Lousy movie otherwise, but it was cool watching the set from outside back in the day.

1 of 9: Welcome to Great America A Retro Bay Area Series: The Early Days of Great America in the late 1970s. 🎡🎠🎢🎟️ In 1976, the Marriott Corporation opened Great America in Santa Clara. It represented the state of the art in theme park design and attractions at the time. It was designed and built with a strong commitment to authentic theming, reflected in the rides, entertainment, food, merchandise, and more. The goal was to create a top-quality experience for families to enjoy together. If you were a kid when it opened, you eventually took your own kids there. If you can, take your grandkids before it’s gone forever. source footage 🎥: Bryan Walker

@AMAZlNGNATURE I deal with seal lions all the time. He'll be fine unless its sea lion mating season.

What happens if you get caught by sea lions?😳

@TheMinuend Nuclear is going out of fashion in the West and I think they are making a mistake. I am glad PFBR is up and running. The article is OK in other regards. It will be a while before this is commercially viable. Fusion was funny.

Must read piece to see the lengths some will go to downplay their own nation’s achievements. When it comes to politicisation, PFBR has become the tech-alt to demonetization. "Building an indigenous breeder reactor is creditable, but not evidence that India has succeeded where others failed." Deplorable. Unless the writers are have built stable FBRs with competent Sodium Handling systems, highly recommended to avoid opining on the latent ease of building one — that too by other nations. 🇫🇷Superphénix & 🇯🇵Monju weren't just shut down because of uranium availability; they were also plagued by sodium leaks & mechanical failures that proved prohibitively expensive to fix. One could argue it's still the cost bottleneck—untrue. Entire Rare Earth processing tech is about figuring out an economically viable tech to extract & process REEE and almost all tech faces commercialisation challenges—quantum is an example. Piece subtly implies that FR,US opted out while India "opted" in as if it's a choice. India’s entire long-term nuclear strategy depends on unlocking thorium via breeders. And "fusion could be a viable alt to IND's thorium pathway"—are we really going with that argument?

@scottknaster @RetroBayArea I want a even smaller one and call it Squint!

@RetroBayArea @cariapa There’s a smaller version (I think called Scan) that’s right in line with this one, but back down the sidewalk away from Charleston.

The original Adobe headquarters. Mountain View, 1989. In 1982, John Warnock and Charles Geschke were two computer scientists at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. While there, they developed a page description language called Interpress, which could precisely control the layout and printing of text and images. When Xerox declined to commercialize the technology, Warnock and Geschke left to start their own company. They named their new company Adobe after Adobe Creek, a small stream behind Warnock’s home in Los Altos. Try this. Go to Google Maps, type in “Adobe Creek, Palo Alto,” and follow it from beginning to end. It’s pretty neat to see just where it is and then realize that this exact little creek is what Adobe was actually named after. It’s right there in Palo Alto. After starting in a small office, Adobe’s first official headquarters was located at 1585 Charleston Road in Mountain View, just across the street from where the Googleplex is. This remained their main office space until they eventually relocated to San Jose, where their headquarters remains today. Today, Google occupies the old Adobe HQ, and on Google Maps, the building’s exterior still seems unchanged, at least for the most part. source footage 🎥: Bob McSummit

@RetroBayArea Learn something new every day from you. Very cool.

@cariapa Leaning man is Vision by William King. I used to not like it but the more I looked at it the more it grew on me. Here is his website with some photos of his other sculptures. williamkingsculpture.com

@joesparks @RetroBayArea I always believed that stretch of Lawrence Xway between 101 and Central was the center of the tech universe. Fry's. AMD HQ. Intel SC1. A lot of cool stuff happened there.

@RetroBayArea It was totally computer heaven! I was there. I used to leave SF and go down the Peninsula to visit computer stores in the Valley. We were WAY MORE into computers in 1989 that people of today. You should have seen BMUG back in the 80's!

Scenes from Palo Alto in 1989. This footage captures Palo Alto during a time of transition. The city was already starting to change, but not at the scale or pace seen today. Tech companies were present, and venture capital was part of the picture, but the footprint was smaller, and the transformation was not yet complete. Some of the places shown are still recognizable. A few streets, storefronts, and buildings remain much the same. Others have been replaced, rebuilt, or removed entirely. It’s a mix of the familiar and the forgotten. What comes through is a version of Palo Alto that feels more grounded in everyday life. Before it became a global center for innovation, it was still just a town, with all the ordinary details that come with that. The song is by a now-defunct Redwood City band called Nord Mariner. It felt like a fitting soundtrack. Its lyrics about change, memory, and the things we take for granted echo the feeling of watching a place change so much that it becomes something else entirely.

@RetroBayArea Bummer. I loved the Edge. The restaurant was nice too.

@cariapa The building was eventually torn down. Was a great spot. youtu.be/IOHOhik1YiM?si…

@JIX5A Butler Bay is awesome but they also have 15 foot saltwater crocodiles there. Hard pass to surfing or any ocean activity!

India didn’t just qualify for the Asian Games in surfing. They maxed out the quota. Four athletes. The maximum allowed. In 6 days, they compete at Butler Bay Beach, Little Andaman. A reef break so remote, you take two ferries just to reach it. Most of India has never heard of it. I hadn’t, until now. This is India’s first-ever surfing appearance at the Asian Games.

@anishmoonka The half-way point appears to be the port of Berenice in Egypt. Still being excavated. My most fun find was that Mallu and Gujju sailors traveled with pet monkeys 2000 years ago. smithsonianmag.com/history/hidden…

Rome spent more money on Indian pepper every year than it made from conquering all of France. A Roman writer named Pliny was furious about it. In 77 CE he did the math. India alone was pulling 50 million silver coins out of Rome a year. The total eastern trade bill, India plus China plus Arabia, hit 100 million. Rome’s yearly take from conquering Gaul (today’s France) was 40 million. The empire was hemorrhaging more gold on seasoning than it squeezed out of an entire conquered territory. And the operation behind it was massive. 120 ships left Egypt’s coast for India every single year under Emperor Augustus. Before Rome took over Egypt, almost nobody made that crossing. One trade record that survived from the Indian port of Muziris lists a single cargo: 4,700 pounds of ivory, 790 pounds of textiles, 1,700 pounds of perfumed oil. That one haul could buy 2,400 acres of Egypt’s best farmland. Pepper ran the whole show. Rome’s only surviving cookbook uses it in 81% of its roughly 500 recipes. The city built entire warehouses just to store the stuff pouring in off the ships. A pound of black pepper cost about a week of a Roman soldier’s pay. When the Visigoth king Alaric besieged Rome in 408 CE, his ransom demand listed 3,000 pounds of pepper right next to 5,000 pounds of gold and 30,000 pounds of silver. The thick cluster of dots across southern India on this map tells the trade side of the story. Over 170 coin finds scattered across 130+ sites, mostly in Tamil country and along the Kerala coast. Indian kings scratched the Roman emperor’s face off these coins, stamped their own name on the metal, and spent them as their own. The Kushan Empire up in what’s now Afghanistan went even further. They melted Roman gold down completely and recast it at the exact same weight into their own currency. Rome’s money was being swallowed and erased. The dots sprinkled across Scotland and Scandinavia are a different animal. Those coins were payoffs. Rome couldn’t conquer the northern tribes, so it bought them off in silver. Archaeologists have pulled 41 separate coin stashes out of non-Roman parts of Scotland. The stray coins that showed up in China and at a medieval castle in Okinawa, Japan probably bounced through dozens of hands over centuries before landing there. Around 300 CE, the whole thing cratered. Rome kept mixing cheaper metals into its coins until they were barely worth the weight. Indian merchants took one look at what was coming off the ships and stopped accepting them. Three centuries of trade, done, because one side hollowed out its own money.

@AnAn90426221 @razibkhan Agree. But people are rarely rational.

@cariapa @razibkhan It does not make sense to avoid economic integration with India Bangladesh would greatly benefit

@ferald_gord I live half-way along that route and have done it several times in my convertible. Whales/dolphins/sea lions on one side and farmland/hills on the other. It is amazing. Do it!

this exact drive (in a convertible) is a major bucket list item for me

@mjreddyMD @SayNoToTrading @QualityGrowthFV Amazing. Which PGE plan are you on? I pay 29c/kwh off-peak (9pm-4pm) on the TOU plan.

@SayNoToTrading @QualityGrowthFV I live 20 min from sf and pay 15c/kwh to charge from home.

Even with $7 gas in California, you will only save $7 per year driving a Tesla $TSLA. Unless you want to drive 20 mins away, after 1 am, to sit in a parking lot and maybe get 35-40 cents kWh. If not, you are paying 48-57 cents kWh during normal times people live their lives. EVs are a total scam for fuel savings. Your savings are reduced maintenance costs, that’s it.

@AnAn90426221 @razibkhan No idea. Mutual distrust. I think the smaller countries around IN are always wary about being overwhelmed. From their POV it makes sense. 🤷‍♂️

@cariapa @razibkhan Why do you think Bangladesh has opposed a free trade/investment/business/joint R&D/talented labor mobility agreement with India since 1971?

@girlmeetsNG A famous man's advice to Stanford graduates was to "stay foolish". So no, its not an insult.

突然アメリカ人に日本語のツイートが読まれるようになり、アメリカ人のこと「バカ(だけど天才)」とか書いてマズい怒られる…と思ったら"Americans are idiots but also geniuses"に対しperfect、so true、the best description of Americans、That is a fair description of us等のコメントが並び最高