What a cool guy, i had no idea until i saw him interviewed tonight and thought, "wow, he's humble, smart, and taking it all in"....hope he wins! - Peter Fenton
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"time to "pile on"...great food, and open late....a very rare breed of restaurant in SF, and I hope they enjoy a Zuni like lifespan. the list of rhones was a wonderful surprise, as was everything we…" - Peter Fenton
"Epi Dupin in San Francisco. If you've eaten at Epi Dupin in Paris, this will remind you of how awesome it is...and how lucky we are to have the sister restaurant here. The service and ambiance have no…" - Peter Fenton
"If you are ever in the market for binoculars or telescopes, this place is a MUST visit. I made the mistake of buying some binocs at REI thinking they would be fine (lazy and didnt want to go to…" - Peter Fenton
"I'm a huge fan of the breakfast here, the service can be exceptional, the food is awesome, and the ambiance is very couth. Breakfast places seem to either be fast service bad food, or painfully slow…" - Peter Fenton
I didn't know you had a place there - so sorry to hear it. - Bret Taylor
thanks, we're really bummed, but big sur will still be there and we can rebuild...i hope nobody reading this EVER has loses a place near to their heart like this - Peter Fenton
Peter, I'm so sorry... I hope you can manage to have a happy birthday in the midst of the challenge. - Bradley Horowitz
Ai!! That is truly awful. I am so sorry. And not just the house, but the gardens too, all those roses ... is it all black all around there? Anything salvageable? - Stewart
will know more tomorrow, but it looks like a total loss... - Peter Fenton
Sorry to hear this, it looks like such a beautiful area. - Jim Norris
My husband and I were greatly saddened and distressed to hear about the destruction of the Stone House and so much of the surrounding area that was dear to my husband's father, Harry Lafler, who-- as you know-- built the Stone House in 1925 and homesteaded Lafler Canyon in 1909. We are following the story on the Internet but would also appreciate hearing from you when you know the extent of the damage. - Joanne Lafler
Joanne, amazing you found me! i'm heading down today, hoping to see what's there, hoping to the high heavens that the stone work remains....will send an update once i know more - Peter Fenton
Thanks for your reply, Peter. I found you through Denise Sallee, who was the first to inform us about the ravages of the fire. The house has not been in the Lafler family since the early 1960s, when John's mother was in a bad financial way and had to sell the remaining Lafler property in Big Sur, but John and I had spent our honeymoon there some years earlier and we still feel a strong attachment to it. More than strong! John hardly remembers his father, who died when John was only five, so the house was a tangible connection. We have not been up there for about 25 years, when we had permission of the then owner to scatter his mother's ashes. I am in the final stages of writing a biography of Harry Lafler, and I never imagined that it would end this way. So yes, please, let us know how much of the structure survived. I suppose that at some time we might wish to pay our last respects, if that is all right with you. you are ever interested in seeing photographs of the early history of the house-- - Joanne Lafler
.just back from the remains of house, hill still on fire we had helicopters above us dumping water as we climbed up the smokey hillside. heartbroken, but also still felt the magic of the place. i'll post photos tonight. needless to say i shed more than a tear. joanne. pls email me at pfenton@benchmark.com. would love to share photos, etc - Peter Fenton
lost a 5000 sq ft studio in a fire once, you pick up and move on, but even last night i dreamed about it, 20 years later - Gregory Lent
WOW... a BABY Buchheit entered the world while I wasn't looking...amazing! great secret there Paul!! Congratulations on your new addition to your family!! :-) - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
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"One of the easiest ways to shoot down good ideas, interesting policies, or worthwhile experiments is by injecting the assumption that whatever you’re doing needs to last forever and ever." - Paul Buchheit
Or effective engineering decisions... - Jim Norris
gee i wonder why rails has a rap for not scaling ;-) - Peter Fenton
hmm. We need the bookmarklet to warn when someone else has already posted the same story. - Sanjeev Singh
married to Benchmark EIR David Goldberg - Peter Fenton
Couldn't you do something similar to what delicious does: everyone who posts a story ends up being lumped together because everything's keyed off the permalink. - Adewale Oshineye
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Don't you already have something like this?! - Shannon Jiménez
It's for the office we are getting soon... Apparently Paul and Sanjeev don't drink coffee, so I have been programming half-asleep for the past two days! - Bret Taylor
You should consider La Pavoni - we have two Bar 2Ls in here in Sydney - Stephen Ma
I am so getting you this, well not really, I am more likely getting you a starbucks Gift Card - Andrew Carroll
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