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: Bonn, GermanyTwitter
I Love the Bay Area Archive
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July 7: Cyrus on Morning Edition (NPR)
Posted on July 6, 2008 | 2 CommentsDear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on a new startup that is bringing wireless Internet to BART will be on Morning Edition tomorrow (July 7). It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams). New York – 5... -
What’s this? Another Bay Area Belgian bar?
Posted on December 28, 2007 | No CommentsWhile it may not be as close and convenient and convivial as The Trappist — William Brand points to the recent opening of La Trappe, a new Belgian bar and restaurant in North Beach, across the Bay. This is definitely going to be my pre-Bimbo’s... -
Geography matters in Silicon Valley. Um, duh?
Posted on December 20, 2007 | No CommentsNo offense to Steve Lohr, but I’m not really sure what the point of his piece in today’s Times “Silicon Valley Shaped by Technology and Traffic” was. As far as I can tell, the main message is “geography matters.” Is this news to anyone, in... -
Estonian prime minister opens San Jose trade office
Posted on December 3, 2007 | No CommentsHow come no one told me that the prime minister of Estonia, Andrus Ansip, was in San Jose last week? Anyway, he was there to open up a new “tech embassy” downtown. (I’m assuming that this is the first of its kind anywhere in the... -
Another awesome photo of the Bay Bridge
Posted on November 28, 2007 | No CommentsThis time from Chrome Bags: -
The Bay Bridge on eBay
Posted on November 13, 2007 | 1 CommentI have a small but (hopefully) growing collection of Bay Bridge iconography, including a poster from Bay Bridge Coffee. On eBay I found some neat stuff, including a stamp that I just bought: -
FBI Hoped to Follow Falafel Trail to Iranian Terrorists Here
Posted on November 6, 2007 | 3 CommentsCQ: Like Hansel and Gretel hoping to follow their bread crumbs out of the forest, the FBI sifted through customer data collected by San Francisco-area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006, hoping that sales records of Middle Eastern food would lead to Iranian terrorists. The... -
Belgian Beers in Oakland!
Posted on September 29, 2007 | 1 CommentI was with Boyk and Michele today in downtown Oakland, and we happened to park in front of a new Belgian beer bar that’s about to open up on 8th St. at Broadway. Dude, Belgian beers! Right here in Oakland! The Trappist: The Trappist is... -
Bay Bridge under construction
Posted on June 14, 2007 | 1 CommentTodd Lappin managed to find some really neat snapshots of the Bay Bridge under construction from a local electrician who moonlights as a photog. I’m a union electrician (Local 6 San Francisco). I’m the guy on the job who will climb anything, anywhere, so I... -
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.
