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	Brush Road Brush Road is a private road just off California State Highway 17, located in an unicorporated part of Santa Clara county, California, near the town of Los Gatos. Named for Spencer Brush, who had an orchard here, Brush Road has been settled since 1850. There are approximately 30 parcels on Brush Road. The most famous resident (so far) is John Steinbeck (Bio, wiki ), who lived here from 1938 until 1941, where he finished writing The Grapes of Wrath. Current residents of Brush Road and Old Well Road can access a number of resources here.
	The Culvert The Culvert under the entrance to Brush Road, on land owned by Sal Giovanato, has partially collapsed, and further failure threatens to close Brush Road, and potentially to block California State Highway 17. The Culvert was built when the construction of Highway 17 eliminated the original access to the area. We are seeking bids for repairing the culvert, please see the Request for Proposal if you are interested in performing this work.

	Brush Road is in the watershed of the Lexington Reservoir Recently, the Water District has drained the reservior, exposing the remains of the town of Alma, which is usually covered up by the 19,000 acre feet the dam can hold.

	Sudden Oak Death Brush Road is in the area of California affected by Sudden Oak Death (Phytophthora ramorum). We have been working with Mission College to study the spread of the disease.`

	Verilog Also located on this server (nice segue, that) is the web site for Verilog.com, which is dedicated to all things verilog. What is Verilog, you ask?

	The Los Gatos High School Robotics Team Los Gatos High School fielded a team in 2008 and in 2006 at the First Robotics competition at San Jose State University.

	Wildlife of Brush Road I have organized some of my pictures of the native wildlife of the Brush Road area into scientific classification.

	Various homemade games Same Game, different implementation Java Notes

Great Circle Route Calculator	Great Circle Route Calculator My father, a pilot, wanted an application to calculate the great circle route between two arbitrary points on the planet. I found for him a web site which did this, but he wanted of course a simplified interface to the calculation , which can be found here.


	Two of my sister's children's have had the same third grade teacher. This woman makes geography relevant to her students by having them pick a beanie baby to see the world. She has the students mail to exotic locales (at least as compared to their home town in Pennington, New Jersey) a Beanie Baby complete with a camera and a journal, for the Beanie Baby host family to use to document the exciting things the Beanie Baby does. We hosted Oats in 2003, and Greeney in 2007. You can see in the next two links the exciting things the Beanie Babies did while visting us. We live in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.
	Oats the beanie baby horse visits California
	Greeney the beanie baby snake visits California