Nineteen Ninety Six is going to be a very good year. I am keeping a record of everyone I share a meal with this year. Come by to see what, where, and with whom! Will you be next? |
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Date | What | Where | With whom | Works for | Position | What I ate | Memorable Quote | |
January 4 | Coffee | Rodger's, Palo Alto | Steve Thomas | Netscape | Java Wonk | Great salad and veggie lentil soup | "I think the Web took off because a lot of people in Silicon Valley were really getting bored." | |
January 6 | Dinner | Gordon Biersch, Palo Alto | Glenn Davis | Project Cool | Webmaster | Grilled vegies and awesome penne | "I'm the guy who introduced the <BLINK> tag to the Web." | |
January 8 | Dinner | Piatti, Palo Alto | Gino Lee | Studio Verso | Senior Designer | Pasta with grilled portobello mushrooms | "So, Dave, with this Balkanization article, do you plan to be the Johnson of the Web?"
"As in 'Masters and...'?" "As in Samuel." |
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January 9 | Dinner | LuLu, San Francisco | Michael Nolan | Hayden Books | Editor in Chief | Salad, beets, fusili and herb pasta | "I read your journal and frankly, I prefer the Calvin Klein boxer shorts." | |
January 20 | Dinner | Mystic Cafe, Palo Alto | Andy Shore | Adobe | Webmaster | Spinach salad and cheeseless polenta | "I'm going to Australia on my sabbatical, and I'm really looking forward to it."Ûwhen I asked him why Adobe hasn't announced a PostScript plug-in for Netscape Navigator. | |
January 30 | Dinner | Cafe Verona, Palo Alto | Matthew Butterick | Atomic Vision | Site Designer | Pasta with a nice green salad | "Dave, Dave, Dave. You've got to learn to delegate. Have your guys write your journal for you; it'll probably be more interesting, anyway." | |
January 31 | Lunch | Japanese Buffet, Mt View | Christopher Warnock | Adobe | Manager, Acrobat | Vegetable suki-yaki | I told Chris: "I never lose any data. Working on the Web, the software is so buggy, you get in the habit of saving every 20 seconds." That was just before Netscape crashed as I was showing him one of my sites. | |
February 2 | Lunch | Mandarin Gourmet, Sunnyvale | Daniel Klaussen and Alex Edelstein | Netscape | Product managers, Navigator 3.0 and 2.0 | Mu-Shu Vegetables and string beans | "We all agree that site designers should have more control over the look of their sites." | |
February 3 | Dinner | Roger's house, Los Gatos | Roger Black | At Home | Creative Director | Pasta with home-made tomato sauce and artichokes | "I think we should have the 'Eddie Bauer' edition browser... and the mood browser!" | |
February 6 | Lunch | Mandarin Gourmet, Palo Alto | Kevin Hughes | EIT | Webmaster | Braised mushrooms and greens | I told Chris: "You want me to say something memorable? That's my quote." | |
February 6 | Dinner | Cafe Verona | Andrew Wood | Core Design | Site Designer | Pasta and green salad | "I have an Apple server running System 7.5 and it never crashes." | |
February 7 | Dinner | Bijou, San Francisco | Ridgeley Evers | CoSite | Entrepreneur | Pasta with tomato sauce, salad | "When can you start working for us?" | |
February 17 | Lunch | University Coffee Cafe, Palo alto | Richard Powers | Stanford Dance division | Teacher, historian | Soup and salad | "Are people surprised, when they meet you, to find out you're nice?" | |
February 26 | Dinner | Mandarin Gourmet, Palo Alto | David "Sparky" Cullinan | Studio Verso | Site Designer | Mu-Shi vegetables and string beans | "Dude, once you've had Legos, there is nothing better." | |
March 1 | Lunch | Cafe Borrone, Menlo Park | Ridgeley Evers | CoSite | Entrepreneur | Eggplant sandwich | When I said "Ridge, it sounds like you need me to join your team," he replied: "That's why I'm sitting here having lunch with you, you idiot!" | |
March 5 | Dinner | LuLu, San Francisco | Kim Clark | A law firm in Chicago | Lawyer | salad, vegan pizza | "I think women have a lot more choices than men do." | |
March 7 | Dinner | Piatti, Palo Alto | Dan Baum | Silicon Graphics | Director of graphics engineering | salad, Pasta with mushrooms and tomatoes | "Dave, is your daily outlook on life going to change when Bill Gates is working for you?" | |
March 8 | Dinner | Mandarin Gourmet, Palo Alto | Hal Rucker | Rucker Design | Graphic Designer | mu-shi vegetables, broccoli, asaparagus | "We are doing our first web site, for Connectix. It's not like doing package design.\" | |
March 12 | Dinner | Ecco, San Francisco | Thomas Reardon, Hakon Lie | Microsoft, W3C | Iconoclasts both | salad, pasta arrabiatta | "I'm a staccato thinker." - Thomas | |
April 2 | Dinner | Farfalle, Hollywood | Harry Marks | American Film Institute | Teacher, seer, storyteller | Pasta and salad | "Having a heart attack really changes your outlook on computer graphics." | |
April 3 | Dinner | The home of David Foster, Los Angeles | Gary and Lisa Foster | Gary Foster's Home Page | Film Producer | Salad and matzoh | "Baruch aia adonai, elohenu melech ha olam... boree pre ha gafen." | |
April 5 | Dinner | Cafe Borrone, Menlo Park | Sally Applin | Portal | Interface Designer | focaccia | "I hate carnations, saxaphones)." | |
April 12 | Dinner | Stanford Shopping Center | Tom Papa | General Contractor | Pasta with vegetables and salad | "What are you going to do? Move to San Francisco and leave Gizmo in Palo Alto? Does he know about this?" | ||
April 16 | Dinner | Vicolo, Palo Alto | Gino Lee, Matt Johnson, Todd Fahrner | Studio Verso | Intraoffice Troublemakers | Sausage Lasagna, 5 varieties of pizza | "So, Dave, with this third-generation site-design book, do you plan to be the Stewart of the Web?"
"As in 'Patrick...'?" "As in Martha." |
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(okay, dave wasn't really there, but it was funny anyway) | ||||||||
April 23 | Dinner | Stanford Faculty Club, Stanford, CA | Paul Ehrlich | Stanford Center for Conservation Biology | Director, Population expert | Big salad-bar salad | "Do you want to know my official prediction on what will happen to the world over the next 30 years, or do you want to know what I really think?" | |
May 9 | Dinner | Blue Chalk Cafe | Reed Overfeldt | GTSI | salad and mixed veggie plate | "Washington is a great town. It attracts interesting people. The asshole meter is in the red sometimes, but there's always something exciting going on." | ||
May 29 | Lunch | Stanford Faculty Club | Paul Ehrlich, Marina Alberti, Andy Weiss | Center for Conservation Biology | Big salads for all | "Why don't we make a big site where all environmental groups can publish their content and teach everyone about conservation, ecology, and sustainability?" | ||
May 30 | Lunch | Delancy Street, San Francisco | Jeff Veen | Hotwired | User-Interface guru | Chilled noodle salad | ""I'd like to start a group of web designers in San Francisco who meet and exchange ideas." | |
May 21 | Lunch | South Park Cafe, San Francisco | Anne Palmer | Friend | Salad and Soup | After lunch, her four-year-old son, Joe, told me: "No kissing! Don't kiss my mom!" | ||
June 2 | Dinner | Calzone's, San Francisco | Terri Arndt and her friend Joan | Nike | Information Systems Coordinator | Salad, pasta with dried tomatoes and arrugula | "I got a tattoo from the guy who did Phil Knight, but I didn't get a Nike Swoosh. I got something else." | |
June 3 | Dinner | Ecco, San Francisco | Harry Mott and Dan Nash | Cyberstudios | Prinipals | Salad and pasta with wild mushrooms | "We're building the studio of the future, and we want you to be part of it. We even have an Ego Patrol that makes sure nobody's head gets too big." | |
June 9 | Dinner | Gordon Biersch, San Francisco | Ben Wuersching | Independent Designer | Salad and mushroom rissotto | "Living in Grass Valley is nice, but there aren't many good designers to hang out with." | ||
June 10 | Lunch | Gordon Biersch, San Francisco | Alice Hill | c|net | Executive Editor | Salad and mushroom-focaccia | "We put up stories of people doing things and talking about their lives, but they bombed. When we do a story comparing 200 monitors, the hits go through the roof." | |
June 11 | Lunch | Caffe Centro, South Park, San Francisco | Lee Swearington and Cathy Clarke | DXM | Shockwave Designers | Green salad and an artichoke/roasted red-pepper sandwich |