On Wednesday, we began at this Redwood Shores building
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where Avistar is headquartered. I had an animated discussion with Jerry Burnett
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Alan Usas
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who gave us his business card
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and Marsha
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about the delivery of video over networks. Before leaving I captured this picture of Jerry's beautiful object d'art
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made of glass from Murano and these 2 paintings
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that adorned the lobby of the building.
The next stop was to have this lunch
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with Matthew
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from Nuance, a company specializing in speech understanding. After lunch, we drove back to Mountain View to park across the street from Handspring
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at Pinnacle Systems
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where we met Tim Heidmann
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and took him
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to lunch at this restaurant
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with the marvelous display of hats.
After a short rest back at the hotels, we headed for Larkspur where we were greeted with a plate of bruschetta
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as we met J. Michael Mahoney
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for dinner at Fabrizio
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where the menu
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offered wonderful suggestions. We began with this bottle of
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sparkling water. I began with the insalata mista
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and as I was taking this picture of the salmon
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that Mike had
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this waiter came by
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with my plate of gnocchi porcini
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after which he took this picture
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of the 3 of us. I finished my food photography with this glimpse of the fish
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Marsha
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had. The dessert tray
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required 2 pictures before we could agree to share the white chocolate mousse
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with 3 spoons. The meal ended with complimentary port
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after which I went back for some hand washing signs for my collection.
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The restaurant wasn't done with us still bringing us some complimentary cookies
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with which to finish our meal. In all, it was a good dinner!