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Cisco…San Jose and Atlanta from the K750Eye… Lo-res but Interesting… Travel pictures remind me of an old boss who had an opinion About photos and video mementos. For him “…experiences must remain memories… become frayed and faded…not come back bright, colored and crisp…! One could connect with that opinion – for several reasons I found a worthy reason to ignore the camera. But was given to regretting at potential photo-opps and then forgetting all about it. Main reason why I grabbed the multipurpose gadget of the modern day, at the first chance – the camera-phone-audio player. * I used the Sony Ericsson K750i for 2 action types other than making a phone call – some visual and some aural!

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Cisco…San Jose and Atlanta from the K750Eye…Lo-res but Interesting…

Travel pictures remind me of an old boss who had an opinionAbout photos and video mementos. For him “…experiences must remain memories… become frayed and faded…not come back bright, colored and crisp…!

One could connect with that opinion – for several reasons I found a worthy reason to ignore the camera.But was given to regretting at potential photo-opps and then forgetting all about it.

Main reason why I grabbed the multipurpose gadget of the modern day, at the first chance – the camera-phone-audio player.

* I used the Sony Ericsson K750i for 2 action types

other than making a phone call – some visual and some aural!

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One of the 40+ ? Cisco buildings in the San Jose area Bldg 24 is across this road opposite Homestead – which is the

“Adda” for most of us visitors – including Infosys@cisco, Wipro@cisco... Etc, etc…

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Further up across this road Cisco bldg 24 “compound”

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Sidewalk Bldg 24 across the Road.

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Bldg 24 Frontispiece.

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Did you know silicon valley used to be called“The Valley of Heart’s Delight.” - full of fruit and flowers…

Read the books Dot Dead (new – born of the dotcom success & nostalgic about the olden golden days)

and Silicon Valley Fever (1985 – full of the futuristic e-promise that was yet to come)

To get 2 different perspectives.

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How they keep the lawns green and lovely – in front of any Cisco office

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The typical Cisco cluster – difficult to keep track of and count of…

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The familiar logo

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Go straight look for SanDisk and turn right for Tasman DriveCisco’s Corporate Address

Bookmark the VT rail line crossing

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Mountain view??? Actually the Mt Hamilton Range upper right of Milpitas

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Same mountains, viewed from Bldg 16 (which is SPTG where Sushma sits)Near Shawnna’s office in the 4th floor. The lower road leads to the VT rail stop… I think.

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Must be the cluster that contains Bldg 24 – very easy to forget.

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Meet the E-Lobby Ambassador. Press the button to interact with her/him. Can remix the bollywood song to

This happens only in Cisco…

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Picture says more than a 1000 words… doesn’t it…We are associated with one of the 2 landmarks.

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Guess what?One of the neatest in looks and coolest in concepts – yes it is the

Famed Doc Lab

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Guess who?James Hensperger – the Doc Lab Manager

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Touch the cards

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Name this… GSR 12k I think

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Name this…I see the numbers

7600…?

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Tidy for a lab…

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Bldg 16 – SPTG.

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With the lovely kids of my friends Bala and Jayanthi.

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Jayanthi Ganesan (GJ)Who talked to Javier the repairman in her 1st year in CA thus…

“Are you Jayvier”No no… I Havier… you… Hayanthi?

No no me Jayanthi… get the general ‘ja’ becoming ‘ha’ funda right?

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Bala – is a Synopsian HDL* guru & technical author of an HDL text – also top class Guitarist – Knopfler fan who can go karnatic with the guitar.

Jayanthi – special faculty for the hearing challenged, Puja(tall) and Manya(chutki)

* HDL = Hardware description language.

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Some things money can buy…Some are priceless….

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Puja – budding musician.Click to listen to her sing Maitreem Jagatham – the song composed by the

Kanchi Shankaracharya (senior) for the peerless MS to sing at the UN – the theme isUnity of the world – shed war shed competition – yuddham tyajata spardham tyajata….

Indian kids in the Valley… who are into the arts come across aswell grounded, non-brash, friendly - a nice combination of Indian and American

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The Cable peopleShilpa (ex Divyasree) Vandana Krishnan and Santa Dasu (an old friend of mine who

Is SW lead for RF gateway and is a carnatic style veena exponent)

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The cable labRF Switch

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The cable labSanta and her work-platform the RF Gateway.

One of her pet projects off work is a non-profit organization called Yuva Bharathi which supports

Indian music and dance in the Bay… CA…

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RF Switch

RF GW

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Cable Dev…

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Don’t compare…contrast… Time takes its toll

2008 to 1990…that is as far back as these memories goL2R - Surekha, Shashi, Jaya, Santa, don’t remember name,

Sumana Rao (whose husband is an ATM guru and cofounder of Cerent which got acquired by Cisco.)

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Shashi Arja nowDev manager

(NMTG – IP Telephony in Cisco

Shashi Arja – thenIn EnT CMC – Vande Mataram

for the commonwealthtrainees

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“local orchards and dairies replaced by tilt-up buildings filled with software engineers.”

“Still the changes are definitely not all for the better. When I went to Palo Alto High, the parents of classmates included school teachers, custodians, and shop owners, not just the venture capitalists, executives, lawyers, and doctors who are the parents today. Back in those days, we left our front doors unlocked. My mother dried apricots in the backyard every year. I can’t help missing those days and wonder why Silicon Valley should end up here, in the midst of some of the world’s most fertile farmland. Still, I feel awfully lucky to have grown up in the “good old days.”

From the book “Dot Dead”

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I thought of Erin Brokovich…

Khatron se khelna…Zindagi ka doosra naam

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Silicon valley dates back to the post world war 1

Atlanta dates back to the years before the American civil war.

Those who read “Gone with the wind” Will be interested to know that the writer of the story and the story itself are all about Atlanta.

Packs a big history punch…Also home to the “liquid symbol of capitalism” – coca colaJimmy Carter, Georgia Tech and Martin Luther King…

But the pictures after this are not important.

All indoors…

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living room

The carpeting is supposed to be llama skin… SPCA!

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Aloe vera in the sun room (same house)

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Dining area – nobody eats here ppl prefer to carry their plates away

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Pretty plenty picture

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Just to show folks at home that the washer and drier are kept separate.

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clutter.

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That’s all.Thanks for viewing.

Will do better another time.