I had a great class this time--I'm pretty sure I spent more time answering questions than teaching from the slides! One of my students doesn't own a home--he runs a small business AND lives full-time on a yacht. He designed most of the interior himself, and used LabVIEW to trick out a lot of the engine room. Check this thing out.
Of course, my favorite part of the trip was visiting the Apple campus (and the Apple Corporate Store therein). They have a bunch of stuff there that you can ONLY buy in Cupertino, like shirts, coffee mugs, pens, etc. I loaded up on stuff and grabbed a few things for friends. Click on the picture to go to the Flickr set from the Apple campus.I swung by Google's and Yahoo's campuses in Mountain View as well, but it was too late at night to take pictures--plus, I'm not nearly as obsessed with Google (and even less so than Yahoo). I saw eBay's giant building in San Jose as well. The whole area was littered with super-high-tech companies; driving to NI's office I saw biotech, computer research, genetic engineering, and more on a half-mile street.
On Saturday morning, I drove an hour up to San Francisco. I spent about an hour and a half taking pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge from every conceivable angle. There's a great site at about.com that mentions some great places to go. I also checked out Lombard Street, often called "the curviest street in the world." The speed limit on the road is a whopping 5 miles an hour. Check out the pictures at the end of the set.San Francisco itself is a really interesting city. It was odd to see buildings built on a street that was sloped at a 45-degree angle. And I can understand why some of those houses on the bay go for about 20 times what I'm about to pay for a house.
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