It was a rainy morning in Silicon Valley, and Thiel, in a windbreaker and jeans, was at the wheel of his dark-blue Mercedes SL500, trying to find an address in an industrial park between Highway 101 and the bay.

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But the real-time impact hit home when I was playing tennis on my Wii one rainy Saturday morning.

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Finding that out rather burst our gleaming high-tech bubble, and got us down almost as much as waking up this morning to find that the rainy season had hit Tokyo and that the accursed radio was playing "Rainy Days and Mondays".

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Outside Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan, about 250 people endured a rainy night and a misty, 40-degree morning.

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