This Monday Flo and I went to Venice (in the LA area) for a “Productivity Summit”, part of my current job. It was in Marina Del Rey, right next to Venice. Venice is an interesting place. It’s right on the beach, and was developed around the turn of the century as an amusement part with canals for boatrides. They put up some cheap houses, and when I first encountered it in the 60’s it was a hippy haven. Since then it’s been gentrified, and is an expensive beach city. We got a little time to go walking on Monday, and I took the pictures you can see here. Southern California is not only stranger than you know, it’s stranger than you can imagine :-)

Today, Wednesday, we came up to Palo Alto for two days of meetings up here.