Saturday
The Yahoo! Yellow Pages can tell you useful things. For example, Napa and Santa Clara are almost equidistant from Golden Gate Park!
I was hoping to see Sumana and Leonard at the events today, but I didn't. I was at the Share-in for most of the day. It was really excellent; congratulations, Katina.
Don Marti came out and did Free Dmitry stuff; various bands played; I handed out programs and got this nice tie-dyed Share-in t-shirt. A couple of jugglers on stilts came and were very impressive. I think they introduced themselves as Listen and Hardy.
I'd say hundreds of people were present. At one point, I did an announcement about the upcoming Billion Seconds of Unix, and it seemed that most people in the audience had never heard of Unix. However, the Cypherpunks meeting was there in the midst of the concert, and I gave the Cypherpunks some bootable business cards.
It was a beautiful day, and we had quite a variety of music. Some of the funniest, I thought, was from a band called The Planning Commission, which makes fun of San Francisco politics.
After the concert, I gathered up a bunch of geeks, including Anirvan, who'd passed up a chance to hear Dave Eggers in order to attend these events, and we went off and met up with the Cypherpunks to celebrate the Billion Seconds of Unix. Two Cypherpunks had GPS receivers with them, so we had an extremely precise countdown to 18:46:40.
Sure enough, the Unix time is now over 1,000,000,000.
After dinner, I went to a bookstore with Don and got The Ethics of Belief and The Idea of a University. I look forward to reading them.
