Here are some photos from a bouldering competition at City Beach Fremont from January 2004. The bouldering comp was dubbed Water, one of an earth-wind-water-fire series.
Enjoying a cachopín with fries and a salad at La Cantina Sixtina.
A mural on a wall near the Santa Cristina beach that says "A diversidade é a nosa forza" (diversity is our strength).
Parque José Martí in Perillo was a great place to read.
The public hospital that Andrea took an intensive course at, as viewed from the Santa Cristina beach in Perillo.
A painting of a bicycle on a concrete pillar in the Santa Cristina area of Perillo.
The view of Santa Cristina Beach from A Coruña.
World War II projectiles in front of an observatory at Monte de San Pedro.
View of a maze (As Roseiras), the Orzan Cove, and the city of A Coruña.
A cannon and green space by the ocean at Monte San Pedro.
Buildings and ships by the harbor in A Coruña.
A green statue with the Port of A Coruña in the distance.
A man reading in a chair with a view of the Castle of San Antón.
Old ships docked at the Port of A Coruña.
City Hall in A Coruña.
Apartment buildings overlooking a greenbelt near the Hercules Tower in A Coruña.
The view of Aquarium Finisterrae by the water in A Coruña, with Monte San Pedro in the distance.
Hercules Tower in A Coruña.
A black 2022 MG ZS.
Surfers catching some waves by Playa de Matedero.
I had a very tasty Mexican salad that was kind of like a burrito bowl at Gazteca.
The Rio Mero between O Burgo and O Temple south of O Coruña. There are many walking paths by it.
The IKEA in A Coruña has tasty, inexpensive food. I like their Swedish meatballs.
Inside the SUV limo during Aaron's b-day night. Yes all 17 of us fit!
Aaron and all of our dates, looking like a stud.
After dinner at Shanghai 1930 and hitting a Salsa Club, we stopped by a karaoke bar where I ran into a group of people I had met 7 months ago in Beijing!!! There's Gregory, Linedor, and [sorry... I forget]. Steve was there too. What coincidence!!!
Here's Suzie and Loren; Alder and Ruth...
It was esp. good to see Mike, who came down from Portland for Aaron's b-day.
Aaron, the man of the hour, getting out of the SUV limo. What a fun night!
I rode a black Honda Nighthawk 250 in the ABATE class.
A sliderule. I never learned how to use one of these.
The 1981 Osborne 1 was advertised as the world's first portable computer.
I briefly had a Sony Walkman. Tapes were all the rage when I was in sixth grade.
It was interesting seeing this Saturn V scale model, as I had seen the real thing just a couple of months earlier in U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville.
Robots from the Fantastic Universe series of science fiction books.
Star Trek predicted the future very well.
The Roomba was founded by MIT roboticists.
Sony's AIBO robot pal was introduced in 1999.
The Omega Speedmaster Watch was worn on the moon by Apollo 15 Commander David Scott.
The Gutenberg Press.
A sign for the newfangled Edison electric light.
An Apple Newton—the predecessor of PDAs (personal data assistants) and eventually the iPhone.
I used one of these in the computer labs at Stanford while I was an undergraduate there in the 1990s.
The translucent 1998 Apple iMac G3 was the computer that saved Apple. I never had or used one, but I remember it well.
Back in first or second grade, I got the privilege of using an Apple IIe in class and programming in BASIC.
My dad had one of these.
Growing up, my family played games on this Commodore 64. We also had the predecessor, the Vic-20, which used a tape drive. Both connected to a TV as the monitor.
Rae, Felix, Katia, Loren and Adam on a happy Fourth of July.