Comment by ChuckMcM
5 days ago
That is an awesome house and a great story. I'd be really curious to know what the people who bought your house in Palo Alto did with the house (and did you leave the gear with it? It looks like you bought all new computers for the new place so ...)
I'm curious too how the planning folks reacted when you got the permits. I would expect Austin to go more smoothly than Palo Alto but that would be interesting to know about too.
> I'd be really curious to know what the people who bought your house in Palo Alto did with the house
I don't really know. I never spoke with them directly (real estate agents like to avoid that...). I did leave the equipment, but the buyer was a family and my impression was that they weren't particularly interested in the LAN setup, so it's possible they ripped it all out.
I looked up the house on street view and they have a Tesla parked in the front yard (on dirt/grass) which strikes me as a hilarious combination of Bay Area and hillbilly. (There is a carport in the back of the house, I don't know why they aren't using it!)
Anyway, the computers were a bit outdated so I don't think it would have been useful to bring them with us.
> I would expect Austin to go more smoothly than Palo Alto but that would be interesting to know about too.
Loooooooool, no. Austin was actually much worse. It took six months! Though it was in the middle of the pandemic, maybe that was part of it.
But the plans as submitted for permitting didn't really show any of the LAN party stuff so there really wasn't anything unusual to react to.