Monthly Archives: January 2022

Dial M, or dialing for dollars

Posted on January 5, 2022 by markweiss86

Silicon Valley Business Journal reported recently that Palo Alto companies give and get more than a billion dollars each year in venture capital. Billion with a “B”, a thousand times million with an “M”.  Meanwhile I noted, in an “Uplift” message … Continue reading →

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A schoolmate at Gunn High of Palo Alto writes in today’s Sunday Times of being homeless two years

Posted on January 2, 2022 by markweiss86

  bw A set of portraits of friends, strangers and people I met:       I interrupt my own broadcast to note that that’s Dave Feldman, Paly 1983, on tv talking about today’s NFL scores. If I was briefly … Continue reading →

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I appreciate comments about live music during these strange times by Cate Armstrong in SLO as told to Stephanie Zappelli for Cal Matters and printed in the Quran today

Posted on January 2, 2022 by markweiss86

We started (the band —Purple Hibiscus) in the end of June. The first show that we had was at my house. We planned it, but I was like, I’m nervous about this because we’re entering a new realm of, “Is … Continue reading →

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