**CAF Note: I asked one of my very favorite bloggers, Nines of “the nines” to blog as correspondent for The Solari Report this weekend from the Secret Space Program & the Breakaway Civilization conference http://secretspaceprogram.org in San Mateo. So here she begins. Look for reports this weekend and next week as Nine’s takes it all in and reports “raw and uncut” here on the blog.**
By Nines
Hi. I’m nines from “the nines” http://www.the-nines.net/ and I’m gonna be trying to put down for you my impressions of the doings in the dreaded Silicon Valley. We’re here at Bay Meadows where horses used to race and conferences now take place.
The stables smell of hooflex and lineament and saddlesoap is still faintly detectable and if you are a horse person you even feel the echoes of the races being called. But, basically, here we have a bunch of extremely studious oddballs gathering to figure out everything we don’t know but should in a sort of municipal-chic excuse for rooms.
This can’t possibly end as well as we hope, but it also never will unless we try. So this assortment of criminally-strange consensus tramplers are here to set you free, and I’m here to help you find out how bumpy the ride… to include reports on hippies found with funny cigarettes in the restrooms and any visiting aliens trying to spy on the crowd.
I mean, we gotta find out if these high tone charlatans have the right stuff to deliver the goods and if you are left out there groping for the answer without getting the temperature of the peanut gallery, how are you going to be able to judge?
I’ve come in the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson, that beautiful bastard who blew himself away before we were done with him, not that I’m big on target practice and illicit substances, but that I’m big on facing the world outside my safe remove with that kind of power. Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley.
Even the stodgy money types should be able to take it in, just for its amazement value. That’s the way I see it, and since I won’t be able to see you, and you might only glimpse me and the rest of the conference-goers on the streaming, and I know Catherine wants to make sure everyone gets to be as informed as they are willing to make themselves… this is what you get.
Related Reading:
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part VI: All on Maybe Three Hours’ Sleep
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part V: All on Maybe Three Hours’ Sleep
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part IV: Interlude
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part III: Paint it Black
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part II – Part II – Update
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part II – Report from the Motor Court
