Auntie Pays a Vist. Amused by what she sees.

It's been Some Time, since I arrived on the Left Coast, having relented (or succumbed) to irresistible gravinomic forces, that maelstrom known as Silicon Valley.  Nevertheless, I think I'll forever see the world through the grey glasses given to my by the New York Times. 

Being here, is rather like becoming the eccentric uncle who is kind of fun every now and then but we never quite figure out what he really does for a living.  Here, in the eye of the storm, we charming company but whey do they insist on being so different.  Yes.  So, our aunt visited and was shocked by what she saw.   Another cup? Shhhhhh.  It's the fog.

Quoth the Times:  Beneath the huge modified hammer and sickle painted on the wall behind the counter, body piercings are outnumbered only by the laptops open throughout the room. As latte sippers pore over the latest draft of a business plan, bang out a little code or post to a blog, it is not hard to overhear snippets of dialogue with a decidedly capitalist bent: “We could make money off that,” and “Have you talked to them about a deal?”

For the Web 2.0 crowd creating businesses, as well as the post-Web 2.0 crowd looking for businesses to build, Ritual is the place to be. While it has not yet risen to the mythic proportions of Buck’s, the hangout in Woodside, Calif., for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, it is becoming the place to generate ideas, find staff members and troll for companies to finance.

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