About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Berkeley Archive
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Recent photos shot with my iPhone
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Supreme Court refuses to hear Alabama sex toy case
Posted on October 7, 2007 | 2 CommentsDuring my freshman year at Berkeley (that’s 2000), I wrote an article for The Daily Californian about how Pleasures, a sex toy shop in Alabama, was being supported by Berkeley’s own Good Vibrations. Good Vibrations, a Berkeley sex toy store, is supporting the cause of... -
Karim in Berkeley! Tomorrow!
Posted on October 7, 2007 | 2 CommentsMy cousin, Karim Sadjadpour, will be speaking at 5:30 pm tomorrow at 145 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus to talk about Iran. He’ll speak for about 40 minutes followed by a Q&A. The event is being hosted by Harry Kreisler, Executive Director of... -
Alfred H. Peet, 1920-2007
Posted on September 3, 2007 | No CommentsWhile I’m not much of a coffee drinker myself, I was introduced to Peet’s Coffee at a very young age. My grandparents’ home, perched alongside Claremont Canyon, is about a 20 minutes’ walk from the fourth location of Peet’s Coffee, on Domingo at Ashby Ave... -
Streaking through the library
Posted on May 24, 2007 | No CommentsDude, how is it in that in four (ok, three) years at Berkeley, no one told me about the tradition of streaking through the Main Stacks? Damn, I missed out. -
For sale: 2 tickets for Stephen Hawking lecture, March 13
Posted on March 1, 2007 | No CommentsSo if you’re not going to Chaharshanbeh Suri with me on March 13, maybe you’d rather hear Stephen Hawking give a lecture at UC Berkeley? I’ve got two tickets for sale if you’re interested. 10 percent discount for blog readers. Update: Been sold! Thanks! -
Busy on March 13? No? Come jump over a fire with me.
Posted on February 24, 2007 | 3 CommentsOk guys, Tuesday is the new Thursday (which, by the way was the new Friday). So on March 13, on behalf of the Bay Area Persian community (of which I’m a very non-active member), I invite all locals, Persian and non-Persian alike to come join... -
The Films of Ousmane Sembène at the Pacific Film Archive
Posted on September 19, 2006 | 1 CommentWhen I was a sophomore at Berkeley in 2002, I took a class with Prof. Anna-Livia Brawn, on French colonial films — given that I knew I would be headed to Senegal later that fall. One of the filmmakers that she introduced us to was... -
On Daniel Hernandez
Posted on September 2, 2006 | 3 CommentsI often like to say that The Daily Californian was my real journalism school. In the spring of 2001, my second semester as a Berkeley student, we had an editor in chief named Daniel Hernandez, or as he was sometimes known among his mates from... -
Running in Strawberry Canyon
Posted on August 10, 2006 | No CommentsYou know, there are days when it feels like the whole world is smiling on you. Yesterday I went for a run at about 7 pm up in the Berkeley Hills on the side of Strawberry Canyon. As I was coming down the hill, the...
