Detroit Steve sent me a copy of a stupid little book called Iterating Grace by Koons Crooks, a pseudonym. It's written in an entertaining style, and it's short, it probably won't take more than five minutes to read it. It drops a bunch of names, some of which pertain to stuff that might actually be interesting. Herewith are those names in the order I came across them.
Luca Albanese. There is a person with that name on IMDB.
Silicon valley startups in the late 1990's:
Danville
Waffle House, Inc., is a restaurant chain with more than 2,100 locations in 25 states in the United States. Most of the locations are in the South, where the chain remains as a regional cultural icon.
There do not appear to be any on the West Coast or in New England.
Waffle House Interactive Map
These states do not have any:
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| Florence |
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| Uturuncu, a volcano in Bolivia |
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| Pixelon, a dot-con. Famous for their extravagant launch party. Not to be confused with the Spanish digital animation company. |
- Naka - now the name refers to a sushi restaurant in Seattle
- Infosmudge - only exists as an internet domain name
- BITKIT - now refers to a Belgian musician
- Popcairn - there is a Facebook page with that name
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| Smoot, a Bernese mountain dog |
There do not appear to be any on the West Coast or in New England.
Waffle House Interactive Map
These states do not have any:
- Alaska
- Hawaii
- Washington
- Oregon
- California
- Idaho
- Nevada
- Montana
- Wyoming
- Utah
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Nebraska
- Minnesota
- Wisconsin
- Iowa
- Michigan
- Maine
- Vermont
- New Hampshire
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- New York
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| Truckee & Denver |
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| Nellie Bowles - Re/code reporter |
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| Chris Sacca, Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Billionaire. |
Pearl Jam - Even Flow - 1991
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| Vannevar Bush Head of US military R & D during WW2. |
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| Deep by James Nestor |
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| Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice Waters |
Twice the Llama (Llama Song by Burton Earny)
Vicunas are not Llamas, but I thought this stupid exercise needed a little leavening.
The book includes a bunch of (images of) idiotic, handwritten quotes, purported to come from these people. They are all either venture capitalists or they live in that world:
- Austin Allred - Minimalist, formerly homeless co‑founder of grasswire.
- Sam Altman
- Marc Andreessen - coauthor of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser.
- Jeff Bussgang
- Tony Conrad - not to be confused with the artist.
- Benedict Evans
- Brad Feld
- Paul Graham - invented Bayesian spam filters
- Bill Gurly
- Seth Levine
- Jeff Nolan
- Andrew Parker - not to be confused with the the Director-General of the British Security Service
- Naval Ravikant
- Chris Sacca - see picture above
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