I’m In Silicon Valley

What are people saying?

1. Dave Johnston said on April 7th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

   The debut of new puppets is really the driving force for me to get out of bed this week. I have not been let down, and it’s only mid-Monday.

   I love this because 90% of the “new” TechCrunch visitors here will burn Loren Puppet into their brain and you’ll hear chatter like, “Oh that 1938, he’s a puppet, right?”

   There’s a whole anonymous comments/sock puppet social media metaphor storyline here but I’m just too damn tired to work my brain into that lather. Also, nobody would get it, less would even care…

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2. Rodney Rumford said on April 7th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

   Loern,
   Somehow I just don’t think you will ever blend in. You are a New Yorker, and your attitude is that of a New Yorker. That’s who you are, just roll with it.

   Cheers!

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3. Loren Feldman said on April 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

   Dave I really like you. man you are one smart motherfucker.

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4. ts said on April 7th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

   Like the boom boy you have in the background of that shot. What do you call that? a techgrip?

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5. vlod said on April 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

   Yeah.. CA is different.

   Lived in NYC for 5 years (although I’m a Brit) and then came to the Bay area.

   People are more touchy-feely.. I occasionally miss the upfront blunt honesty that is NY.

   I view it as my personal quest to bring more NY to CA.

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6. Amyloo said on April 7th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

   There’s a certain sport in doing things that most people don’t get.

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7. Christopher Coulter said on April 7th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

   I think the ‘cynic’ gene gets washed out in all the sunshine, as even the most droll Web 2.0 widget gets happy-thoughts over lunchtime chit-chats. Thankfully, if you look beyond the so-called 250, that just talk to themselves, some semblance of normality in the Valley. But gosh, the Googleites sure walk around like in some dazed cult, immediately identifiable.

   Not that the blunt NYC tude is transferable, everywhere, I mean leather-jacketed mile-a-minute yip-yapping loud New Yorkers in Florida, pulling the pseudo tough-guy image in the laid-back Florida paradise. They are like invading biting ants, call the Orkin men. When in Rome.

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8. Loren Feldman said on April 7th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

   Coulter,

   Nice. Real nice.

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9. Jeremy Pepper said on April 7th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

   Love the giant Chai.

   And, I get accused of being too NY also. Fuck ‘em.

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10. Anonymous said on April 7th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    feldman, is SF turning you gay ?

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11. golfgirl said on April 7th, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    Love the puppet bling. Sparkly!

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