Another San Jose Landmark

[Richard Schwartz]

The Winchester House sucks, but it is very close to a world class BLUES JAM
place from my harmonica days, B.J.'s.   Also, next to B.J.'s is a great war
surplus joint, if you want a fine cammo belt case for your handheld, one
that won't come open or get pushed off your belt when you sit down like the
ones that Palm sells for their machines. (It is their intent that you lose
the Palm in order to increase their sales.)  However, I am presently off of
Palm because of the way their operating system works and because of
nincompatibility with the rest of the world.  Too bad there is no way to
program that iPAQ.   

THAT is what HP needs: a programming language on the iPAQ, one that can make
a crash-proof .EXE file that can be sent to other machines, so that applets
could be shared.  National Socialist Basic, Scheme, and Pocket C do not
produce .EXE files, and even the simplest programs are hell due to the
complication of Windows.  (In place of Palm's "resource editor")  It would
really be cool to make a supercomputer out of a dozen iPAQs communicating by
blue tooth.   You could do big nasty problems like SETI at HOME.  Bring a
hundred iPAQ's into range, and you might get artificial intelligence, a
thousand might become self-aware!  Think of the sales boost to HP!

It will never happen at HP; a private developer must do it.  And then Bill
Gates will change the operating system so it no longer works, as he has
already done three times for the war walking programs.

Yeah, the Blues Joint, that is where I need to go for some therapy.

. . . Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: hhc-bounces at lists.handheld.org [mailto:hhc-bounces at lists.handheld.org]
On Behalf Of Eric Smith
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 6:37 PM
To: Handheld Computing Conference discussion list
Subject: RE: SLAC tour at HHC 2006


Richard Schwartz wrote:
> There is a cool place there, the California Academy of Science,

And the Exploratorium, which is even cooler, since everything is hands-on.

It's a longer drive, but the Monterey Bay Aquarium is fabulous.  It's a
great place to spend a day or two.

The Winchester Mystery House tour is interesting.  It's in San Jose.

> We could visit the Stanford Bookstore!

Sounds like a good idea, I haven't been there in years.  The bookstore at my
community college is mediocre.  The bookstore on the Auraria campus in
Denver used to be really good 20 years ago.  In addition to being an
absolutely huge bookstore (though not comparable to Powell's), they stocked
all of the HP calculators and accessories. But these days they only have a
few hang-tag calculators (no HPs), and not much in the way of books.

> At the Rosicrucian museum we could do some levitation, make ourselves 
> invisible, and project our thoughts into the minds of others to make 
> them do our bidding.

I usually don't bother going out to any special place when I do that.

Eric

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