Vanity License Plates, CA Style Need a little context? The license plate in the headline (“THX YAHOO”) was attached to a $100k ($150k?) Mercedes convertible in the parking lot of a Portola Valley eatery, just a stone’s throw from the Stanford campus and Silicon Valley. The obvious inference: the owner cashed in when Yahoo! went public, way...Read More
California Dispatches [Editor’s Note: I’m in California for the next few days for some much-needed R&R, so my posts will have a local (vs. Minnesota) flavor.] You’d certainly think that the Apple store on Palo Alto’s University Ave. — just down the street from Stanford, in the bosom of Silicon Valley — would boast a bigger...Read More
