Herring Goes Hollywood
The Red Herring is increasingly being known for the killer conferences held around the world. Most recently Herring on Hollywood featured two days of networking (the old fashioned way, in person) as well as trade booths with entertainment related software as well as presentations on stage.
- Monday, August 21st, 2000
Syl Heumann's Perpetual Motion Machine
What is that little beast on the table? It is a Sterling Engine , of course, which Syl built from a design which is nearly 200 years old. It utilizes heat to run a series of alternately heated and cooled chambers, which drives a small flywheel.
- Thursday, August 10th, 2000
Frank Flood Treads Where None Have Dared
I meet so many remarkable people but sometimes someone comes in who does something so extraordinary that he is lifted above the common clay. Such a man is Frank Flood
- Saturday, July 1st, 2000
America's Birthday Card
Who doesn't love the Declaration of Independence. It's a sassy in your face, outta here Mr. George 3, we are on our own.stand for freedom. It is astounding to realize that this 225 year old statement has been adopted in part or whole by some 90 nations. It has been called the most important printed document in the world.
- Friday, June 2nd, 2000
Kevin Kelly and Friends Busting Flapjacks
I read a book that I found so profound that I thought I better share it with you. It is all about connectivity and the bright, even brilliant future so immediately at hand. The book is 'The New Rules for the New Economy' by Kevin Kelly.
- Thursday, May 25th, 2000
Shimon Peres breakfast
Gracing Buck's for Breakfast of the Year came Shimon Peres, Nobel Laureate, Minister for Regional Co-operation and Founder of the Peres Center For Peace, as guest of Isabel Maxwell and Commtouch (www.commtouch.com) who hosted a private breakfast with Silicon Valley leaders.
- Tuesday, May 9th, 2000
Uncle Stanford
The most amazing people come through the door at Buck's that I am losing interest in wandering across Highway 280 in case I miss anyone. I happened to be here when a most marvelous gentleman came in for dinner with his niece and her husband. We got to talking about the great world's fairs such as the one in 1939 held on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. - Monday, April 10th, 2000
Police Shakedown Buck's Customers
Sergeant Vicki O'Brian came by the other day and asked if I would like to have Buck's be part of the Tip-A-Cop program. This consists of the police officers from many different cities and the sheriffs of San Mateo County coming into a restaurant and helping serve the customers
- Thursday, March 16th, 2000
Today Show at Buck's
Impostors came in posing as the muscle for the Today Show. They interviewed me on a range of subject, but my answers were always the same. "I don't know. I'll get back to you. And. Who cares?"
- Thursday, March 2nd, 2000
Idiotic teeth found funny by Korean Journalists
Since I didn't speak Korean and they didn't speak English we got along like heifers in a feedlot.
- Tuesday, February 22nd, 2000
President of Princeton at Buck's
The president of Princeton, University, Harold Shapiro, was in town to visit with some of the alumni who have been so successful in the Valley.
- Wednesday, February 16th, 2000
Zsa Zsa Gabor-Keynote Speaker at Yahoo Summit.
I have been called the Zsa Zsa Gabor of Silicon Valley and that is when people are being nice to me. Funny, though, someone at Yahoo saw my name written on a bathroom wall (probably in my handwriting) and they asked me to deliver the opening sermon on January 21st at an executive summit at the nifty new Bernardus Lodge on the alpine slopes of Carmel Valley
- Wednesday, February 2nd, 2000
Bucks - centre of the universe .... again !!!
On Friday 14th January Bucks busy breakfast time was made even busier when a bunch of Brits arrived complete with fancy cameras and sound gear and some very bright lights.
- Tuesday, January 18th, 2000
As seen at Buck's
Buck's has been in the hood for nine years and in that time we have seen some pretty funny stuff and served something like 1.6 million meals including one where a guy ordered 11 pork chops. We have seen some famous people such as Carol Doda, Steven King, the President of Surinam, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Chef Chu, Ann Landers, Bill Bradley, Ivan Boskey, Charo, Mikhail Gorbachov and Weird Al Yankovick. These people actually weren't here at the same time, however.
- Tuesday, January 11th, 2000
"Internet Bubble" is a term that is sticking
"The concept of financial bubble has been around quite awhile, as in the South Sea Bubble of 1720 in London and the Mississippi bubble around the same time in France. In recent years the Economist has been writing frequently about a stock market bubble in the U.S. But it was in the summer of 1998 that we put together Internet with Bubble and came up with the title of our book long before the words appeared on the cover of U.S. News in January 1999....
- Thursday, December 22nd, 1999
Accolades Kneel
It's because we ran out of chairs for the popular book signing of the latest book The Internet Bubble by Michael and Tony Perkins.
- Thursday, December 2nd, 1999
Lotus Elis at Buck's
This little beast showed up here to see and be seen. It is the new Lotus Elis and this is the only one in America. It attracted a TV crew and they asked me for my comments. I said I drive a Lincoln and would need one for each foot.
- Monday, November 22nd, 1999
Governor of Penn. and Cadence
The hunkely handsome Ray Bingham the CEO of Cadence Design Systems hosted a California style breakfast powwow at Buck's for The Honorable, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, Sam McCullough (Secretary of Economic Development) several staff members and some big time muscle to keep our employees from playing the tubas. It seems that the Governor had stolen a Pennsylvania license plate for Ray to add to his collection.
- Wednesday, November 3rd, 1999
CNBC, Washington Post, SF Chronicle and TV1-Converge
CNBC dropped by and shot a live show here at Buck's recently. Power Lunch they call it and they claim that 450,00 people worldwide saw me running around killing flies because someone left a door open. The Washington Post people came by on the same day as the fashion editor Trisch Donnely of the the San Francisco Chronicle as well as a crew from TV1, a station from England, was here to shoot something or other.
- Sunday, October 24th, 1999
1,000 Year Old Women
Helen Sweyer came for lunch with 12 of her closest friends and I mean that these ladies really know one another. There are 14 of them, but one couldn't make it. I'll just say this about their ages. Add up all 14 and they have seen over 1,000 years of life as local girls, wives, mothers and businesswomen.
- Sunday, October 10th, 1999
Johnson brings in Faggin
Craig Johnson of Venture Law was in for lunch recently with a man who is right up there as one of the most important scientists of the century, Frederico Faggin.
- Friday, October 1st, 1999
Time Magazine tells Jurvetson to back off
Dot Com. Tired of it yet. Nawwww! Three weeks ago Time ran a picture of Steve Jurvetson, of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. We ran it through our Madd Dogg Stepp Photoreimager™ and this is what popped out. The folks at Time must have heard about our take on the photo because this week they made this bizarre comment.
- Tuesday, September 21th, 1999
Best and Brightest
The staff at Buck's are the best and the brightest. The secret of our success is the fact that everyone here realizes that that there is no us and them, just us. The first line of the employee book states it is a job requirement that you have to love your job. I really like to come to work to hang with my homies.
- Thursday, September 16th, 1999
Burning Man Burns Bright
Burning Man is 21,000 different experiences of what it is like to meet in the middle of the dessert with no fixed agenda. A. A. Milne was a burning man, "Rabbit is that you? Yes, but let's pretend it isn't and see what happens.
- Tuesday, September 14th, 1999
Koko Speaks
Local Woodside resident Koko the Gorilla recently stared in her own show on PBS. I was once walking with my wife, Margaret, past the Stanford art museum in about 1977 and there was a woman sitting on the steps with a small gorilla. Well Dr. Penny Patterson and her great friend, Koko, have come a long way since sharing a banana at Stanford.
- Wednesday, September 8th, 1999
Derjassi Drags more Victims to Buck's
Long time local rancher Dale Djerassi with his guests from New York, the Malkin family after another filling and stimulating breakfast.
- Wednesday, September 8th, 1999
Newt Gingrich, New Waiter at Buck's?
When he came in today it became quickly apparent why Newt Gingrich rose to the Speaker of the House. Regardless of your politics you would probably admit on meeting him that he is one engaging guy. Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson brought him in for breakfast to meet with principals of two of DFJ's startups, Kana and Everdream. It seems that Mr Gingrich is here to get a handle on The Valley in that he is now a Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
- Wednesday, September 8th, 1999
Reflections On Notoriety
A woman came into Buck's to ask if she could take my picture and get my autograph. She said she had read about me in the June issue of GQ Magazine. This is clear evidence that the western world is fast approaching the apocalypse. This, and the fact that Dennis Hopper has taken up golf.
- Wednesday, September 8th, 1999
Walsh and White Old Friends at Buck's
Bill Walsh had breakfast at Buck's with Rams coach Mike White.
- Wednesday, September 8th, 1999
