I got back on the bike this weekend, and went riding along Cañada Road with Erik and Susan (see the path using Google Earth). It’s a short ride (<8 miles unless you start in Woodside), but it's really pretty. They close down Cañada every Sunday for bike riders, so you don't have to worry about cars—just the insane roadies who are way faster than you are.
After my accident, I can say that my knee is almost completely healed. I have some scars and new skin there (still a bit tender that), but the knee works fine and I escaped without serious damage. My wrist, unfortunately, is still bothering me. Fortunately, the ride did not aggrevate that.
After getting cleaned up, I had lunch with Shawn, Max, and Krista, and we headed over to the Computer History Museum. We went over mainly because there was an exhibit on chess playing computers, and Max’s father had been a researcher working on the problem in the sixies. We spend most of our time in the main exhibit hall, however, on a guided tour of their truly amazing collection. They have some truly unique pieces at the museum, and the guided tour was really quite interesting.
The only problem is that the tour guide was either having some fun with us or had some attitudes that were as old as the equipment he was showing us: he kept picking out Krista as an example of traditionally womanly arts. I especially enjoyed when he tried to interest her in the Neiman-Marcus kitchen computer (which was funny, anyway: $10,000 and you could only use it if you knew binary code… strangely, no one ever bought it). Still, it was well worth going. If you’re ever in the bay area, be sure to stop by.
