There’s a lot of construction going on here in the Valley
They Call Silicon, and Cupertino is just teeming with sites-in-progress, what
with the new Apple
headquarters going up, and apartments and shopping/eating centers nearby.
The Apple building, tellingly, is doughnut-shaped, with
the focus entirely in on itself. This reflects both the secretiveness and
self-centeredness of the culture as defined by Steve Jobs. It’s close enough to
me to be on one of my walking circuits, when I shot this of the cranes behind
the 12- or 15-foot fences:
But actually, what I find rather interesting is that there’s
no apparent work week/weekend configuration for this construction. Weekday,
Saturday, Sunday, holidays, the trucks are trucking, the cranes are moving and
there’s non-stop road wetting to keep down the dust. Even on the rare occasions
when it’s raining. And I’m not making that up.
In fact, here’s evidence from a shopping center (or maybe
it’s an apartment city, it's hard for me to tell the difference at this point) on Stevens Creek Boulevard:
We live in strange times.
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