my new house
I’ve moved into a new place in Palo Alto, where I’ll stay probably for all of September. This is a great old house with a pretty interesting bunch of people, mostly Stanford postgrads, and a chap who designs organic permaculture gardens and is making one in the front yard. So there’s interesting conversation around this dinner table. The location’s great, a few blocks fromthe University Ave shopping strip, and the WholeFoods is even closer. My best path to work now is to bike through Stanford, so I’ll get a closer look at the campus.
By coincidence one of the guys who lives here won a contest in the New Yorker with a caption that is relevant to my PARC study.
One of the guys and I brought some furniture from a dumpster using our two bikes and his two bike trailers, something I’ve never used before.
There’s no tv and the house is environmentally-minded – a lot of stuff is recycled or goes into compost, and I’m learning about urban agriculture by helping in the garden.
My Linux laptop reads the internet here, so I’ve given back the Mactop I borrowed from work.