| Google war stories |
[May. 23rd, 2006|03:04 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | absurd, google | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Hefner - "Chocolate Beauty" | ] |
... so I am visiting a couple of good friends at Google. Sampling the food, so to say. We are trying to select a least crowded table in their mecca-of-a-cafeteria. Finally we end up at a table with five other people, when I notice that one of them is Udi_Manber, who until recently was a CEO of Amazon's A9 before being hired by Google a couple of months ago. So I tell my friend "do you know who is sitting at this table?". "Of course I do" answers my friend. Right after this, a guy on my right turns around and then conversation proceeds as follows
Guy: Hi guys! What do you do around here?
Friend1: I am doing ...
Friend2: And I am doing ....
Me: And I am just visiting here, and I must say the food is really good!
Guy: And what do you do?
Me: Oh, I am a software engineer in a startup near by.
Friend1: "..and a pretty good one"
Guy: Why don't you come work for Google?
Me: Maybe I should apply, the food is excellent here [trying to be funny]. And what do you do around here?
Guy: [after a brief pause]... Well, I just do different odd jobs.
Conversation ends here, the guy turns around to continue his conversation with Udi and others, while my friend explains to me that I have just asked Larry Page "what he is doing around here". As I now think about it, this was probably the single most absurd question one could ask Google co-founder in Google cafeteria, and I must admit the answer was right on the mark for this situation... |
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| China - Signs |
[Dec. 30th, 2005|10:39 am] |
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| |  calm | ] |
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| | MADREDEUS - Fado Do Mindelo | ] |
It might come as a surprise, but even at such touristy places as museums and observation decks, one sees absurdist translations of some Chinese phrase word for word into English. Some are translations of "Ispolkom" type terms, and some have unknown origins. Enjoy The Chinese Sign Collection: 
Click here for more
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| Souzhou - Garden City |
[Dec. 22nd, 2005|11:25 am] |
Founded in 514 BC as a capital of Wu Kingdom, Souzhou is home to the most exquisite Classic Chinese Gardens. Unlike Imperial gardens of Hangzhou, Souzhou gardens are laid out within a limited area by the house. A classical garden of Suzhou is a microcosm of the world made of the basic elements of water, stones, plants and different kinds of buildings with literary allusions.
This album contains photos of three Souzhou gardens: The Humble Administrator's Garden, Lion Forest Garden and The Lingering Garden. Suzhou is now a quiet small (by Chinese standards) city of 600,0000 and the gardens are UNESCO protected World Heritage Site
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| #1 Silk Factory in China (no joke, this is the official name) |
[Dec. 20th, 2005|12:05 pm] |
This photo-trip to the #1 Silk Factory of China (seriously, this is its official name) will uncover the ancient mystery of silk warm life cycle for you, as well as provide with images of exemplary, yet so 1950s factory floor that is similar to what one would find at some Soviet Era shoe manufacturer in Siberia.
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| China: Water Village |
[Dec. 15th, 2005|09:49 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | calm | ] |
| [ | music |
| | P.J. Harvey - Hair | ] |
Ancient Chinese water village Zhouzhuang has become a toursit attraction fairly recently, after a famous Chinese artist made a painting of one of its charming stone bridges. Now it is full of Chinese style gondolas, complete with romantic singers. Main canal has a row of small restaurants that provide you with a fishing poll, so you can catch your own lunch in the murky waters. All tourists arelocal here and there are no English menus. One can see toursit money at work on outskirts of this village (by Chinese standards) where construciton of a modern tech college and a hospital are almost complete
See more photos here
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