For those of you who missed my sneak preview of my latest creative creation in the wee hours of the morning, I offer you my Valentine's Day gift to Slopers......
And just for some context, in case you're not acquainted with the original.......
Since I'm kind of tied up for the trading day, I figured I'd write a post about Facebook's headquarters as an interesting anecdote post. After all, FB's founder lives just a few blocks from me, and the headquarters of his firm is just a short bike ride from here. What lies between here and there is kind of interesting.
Look at the map below. The blue arrow denotes where Mark lives. It's a nice house, but I imagine many of you reading this live in something nicer (here in the Silicon Valley, we try to be understated - - even 27-year old zillionaires). Crescent Park is one of the two "rich" neighborhoods in Palo Alto (the other being Old Palo Alto, not shown here). Another nice zone is Lindenwood, marked with the purple arrow (it's kind of obviously a nice part of town - in this case, Menlo Park - because the distance between the streets is much greater).
Most of you have probably already seen the bullgasm happening over at Barron's. Here's their cover for the week:
I didn't watch the Superbowl yesterday (are you kidding me? I was firing off my custom-made model rocket). I did hear about the guy in the toga, however. He's actually pretty awesome. I present to you - Sketchy Andy:
I am already looking forward to about a week after the Facebook IPO. The onslaught of press at the time of the IPO is going to be stomach-churning. If you're not sick of Zuckerberg's face already, by God, you will be by then. So once they are public, give it about a week, and we can all get back to our lives.
It will also stamp out all this horniness for tech stocks that's running rampant. This Valley has gone into bubble-mode again, and it's hard to take.
Zuck lives three blocks from my house, and the only benefit I'm personally going to get out of the thousands of newly-minted zillionaires is that the value of my house will go up. Indeed, I just took this photo of an advertisement in my local paper showing what Palo Alto home prices have been doing lately (the most recent year is in black; the year prior is in orange).
So asset appreciation of something I actually own is something I can "Like."
Heh.
I'm going to put together a video market update. Meantime.......this is a scream. Enjoy both parts:
