Craigslist.org started SF 1998 + my gifted childhood of science tech Menlo Park
Craigslist concept Born Friday Night 1998 @ SF CA
Anon Salon 285 9th St SF @ Folsom
Craig Newmark had a party with DJ Laird
Craig said hey folks leave your email and we can keep in touch. Craigslist.org was born.
Craig is an angel eyed shit kicking JavaScript Programmer activist from the Well in Santa Cruz California:
The 1st ever BBS digital computer
Bulletin Board System 1994 just over Hwy 17 hill Southwest of Silicon Valley where
Steve Wozniak would bring his wooden box with PC boards to the homebrew computing club
Santa Clara California on El Camino? 1970s
HP Garage 375 Addison St Palo Alto CA
SRI Stanford Research Institute 333 Ravenswood Ave Menlo Park
My dad worked on AI and BarCode invention here
Robbie the Robot greeted me in the lobby
If his coat hanger gauge metal wire sensors at his base bumped into me as he rolled across the front lobby floor he would cease motion and talk to me
My dad brought home huge 4’ and 8’ painted color wheels on plywood AI Robots would use for calibration orientation navigation.
35mm? Film reels of quarks muons neutrino signatures from the cloud chamber of the subatomic particle splitter a few blocks from our house in Menlo Park:
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Where we kids could view the Paleoparadoxia
Dinosaur skeleton and play with a Geiger counter reading
Radioactive Purcell dinner plates with uranium
Boy Scouts field trips included
exploratorium.edu
Moffett Field air show 1976 YouTube
Tour inside and outside of C130 cargo planes
C17 C5 Cargo Jets as well as
Boeing P3 Orion SubHunters based in Mountain View CA
Plus the usual F15 F16 F18 Fighter Jets with
Blue Angels, Thunderbirds, biplanes, more above in live sky flights
AH1 Bell Huey Cobra attack helicopters
UH1 Huey Utility Helicopters
More Helicopters I could not ID.
Boy scouts
My scout leader Terry Greene spun up a helicopter for us 1 day at Moffet Field North of Hangar 1. Hangar tours were mind blowing.
BoyScouts Leader Richard Lewis piloted United Airlines. We made 8mm films in his driveway with 747 inner tubes
BoyScout Leader Jack Wall operated the secret Lionel O Gauge model Train system on many
4x8’ plywood sheets inside the train station at
Menlo Park California
Boy Scouts also taught me to camp, swim climb, hike, backpack, run canoe, kayak
orienteer with or without maps, compass sundial, stars tree, Moss
Triangulate with visible landmarks, radio signals
survive on berries, nuts, tubers plants
Build ignite and tend a fire from scratch via many methods
identify safe edible plants. ID poison plants.
Tie lash knot ropes. CPR, 1st Aid for burns, cuts, lacerations, blunt, trauma, broken bones, shock, heat, shock
How to build stretchers, gurneys, crutches, splints assistive devices
How to triage
Safe handling of axe, hatchet knife
Rifle, bow and arrow. Learned to shoot.
#2A 2nd amendment
Bill of rights, constitution, citizenship, community service and most of all to
BE PREPARED. This is only a partial list.
Kids are the Future
I wish more kids could have access to so much science and tech
Luckily my mom and dad were both UCB PhDs
Mom Ba Stanford. Dad Bs Engineering MIT
Many of my childhood fiends were also of German descent. I call it German Town. Engineers. SRI Stanford town see also:
1960s Architecture of Sharon Heights
Best Mom ever took us 3 boys camping every year for 1 month each summer just as her parents did in their Ford Model T
including most major national and state parks western USA plus CANADA MEXICO
Many dams Hoover etc with free tours of hydroelectric generators
Los Alamos natl lab (Manhattan Project)
OMSI Oregon museum of science invention super fun with many interactive displays similar to Exploratorium SF
Denver Airport but not 62 levels below ground
SLAC deep tours beyond Boy Scouts access
Palo Solari Institute New Mexico
Sedona Arizona water slide and narrows of west fork
Zion Natl park inner tubing Virgin River
Bryce earthen stone monoliths
Arches Bridges CanyonLands impressed me more than
Grand Canyon and Redwoods = I was fortunate
My grandpa built a circular glass stone wood house by hand in Sedona Arizona designed by a photogenic Frank Lloyd Wright
Flash floods filled our dams we built into dry washes on his 5 acres, so we could float our boats between Sugarloaf and lizard head mountains which he would take us hiking to directly from his property in nature
My mom’s dad in Sedona was a neurosurgery department for Mayo Clinic
My mom’s mom was head of nursing at Madison General Hospital in Wisconsin
My mother traveled Europe to trace our genealogy mostly Swiss German English. Then
Offered history presentations on opaque projector at LDS Library Menlo Park:
German Migration Routes of America 1600s
Many of my ancestors held civic titles.
I am 14th generation American.
Mayflower Nina Pinta Santa Maria.
Growing up in the three-dimensional mountains and foothills of Sharon Heights, West Menlo Park allowed my brain to think three dimensionally like swimming or skiing
I theorized that this three-dimensional spatial thought capability was more robust than growing up on a flat plane as I grew up with a mind thinking of endless ways over and under Obstacles
Axons and neurons
A child’s brain that grows up dodging obstacles rapidly down a ski slope,
navigating rapids feet first on your butt in the Colorado River
Climbing and rapidly descending mine tailings in
Aspen Leadville Telluride Boulder Colorado
Spelunking in UN mapped UN charted caves
Climbing and leaping between trees
Biking in wilderness tumbling end over handlebars
develops more dynamically.
Skiing, swimming kayaking, canoeing, water skiing, motorboating, bicycling, hiking backpacking, climbing bouldering spelunking caving
California and West Coast kids had advantage physically thanks to Boy Scouts and family camping trips.
Children who do not grow up in nature,
will not know to save it