We're here in sf bay, all settled and almost jet lag free. I'm sitting in Aeron chair with 30" screen in front of me. This place, feel and all of he technology around me is pure porn for engineers. Let me start from the beginning.
The 26 hour trip from Ljubljana to San Francisco offered quite some insights on how America works. Business for example. They take it seriously. Not like us, they really push it all the way. On JFK Maja bought Oprah magazine and it has 350+ pages. Oprah's foreword in on page 59. Those 58 pages are all pure commercials. Nothing else! The magazine has articles written on every fifth or sixth page. Everything else is commercials. You can't get away with something like this in Europe. And it's not just Gossip... The Wired magazine I've bought is no different. I expected to be at least as interested as online version. I was wrong. All commercials and only one or maybe two articles worth of reading. It may be just me, but I've expected more from Wired. For a tech-sawy it's worth nothing. But is sells...
Prices. It's a bit more expensive than in most of the Europe. An people still pay. $10 for 2-minute ride it's just a bit too much! I walked. But people still pay. Again, I don't think this would fly in Europe.
SF's vibe. You can really fell it. It's nothing like I've seen or tried before. People are relaxed, kind and mixed in so many different ways. It takes a bit to get used to it. And it's quite windy and foggy.
All in all it's still the best trip I ever had. We'll rent some bikes and cycle the city trough then, we'll head south to visit the Valley.
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