why I love living in Silicon Valley

I really do love living in Silicon Valley. I like that it's 56 degrees outside and I think that it's cold. I like that meetings almost never start before 10am, and if they do, they're accompanied by both apologies and breakfast.

When I first moved here, and my mother came to visit, she was appalled on Monday morning when she saw what I was going to wear to the office that day: blue jeans, a t-shirt, Birkenstocks. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I was probably going to be one of the more dressed-up people in my office, since my jeans weren't ripped and I wasn't wearing flip-flops.

When I got up this morning and found a story from Cult of Mac reporting that (gasp) Steve Jobs wears a tie, I was heartily amused. This is exactly why I live Silicon Valley. Not only are ties things that happen to other people, but when one of our own actually wears one, it's newsworthy.