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Comic-Con Displays Spare No Expense

Chris Richardson — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:24:20 +0000

The true geek convention is kicking off quite nicely in San Diego, California, and there’s a bunch of images rolling out, showing the various displays at the Comic-Con floor. There are a lot of big deals this year as such praised titles like The Walking Dead, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, and Twilight to name a few are featured. In fact, the Twilight exhibition has already been receiving some publicity.

Of course, if you camping out to see sparkly dudes that call themselves vampires, then coverage is inevitable. Digressions aside, over at SlashFilm, there’s an awesome collection of these exhibitions, and while it’s not comprehensive — that would be a lot of pictures — there are some awesome displays going on, particularly from Lego:

Like Chris Crum mentioned, you have to wonder just how long it took to make those awesome Lego displays. Undoubtedly, Lego commissioned teams to build them — or at least, one would think — but still, that’s some tedious work right there.

Make sure you check out SlashFilm’s post for more images, including shots of the Spider-Man display and nifty bigger-than-life-sized He-Man. While Lego did indeed pull out the big guns for their various displays, from the looks of things — at least, at this early point in the 2011 Comic-Con — the display for the AMC television hit, The Walking Dead looks absolutely incredible:

That last image is just a friendly reminder, for those who are wondering. As you can see, Comic-Con is truly a geek’s heaven, and rightfully so. Another reason to love these conventions are the various costumes you’ll see, like the following:

A hat-tip to Sandra Hughes for the find

Hat-tip to Coyotegrey

And that, friends, is what makes these kinds of conventions what they are. Is it for everybody? Doubtful, but if you have the spirit and the patience to wade through scads of geeks, then you’ll definitely enjoy yourself.

Bonnie Brown On Massaging Google Geeks

Philipp Lenssen — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:45:47 +0000

Bonnie Brown was working as massage therapist at Google from 1999 to 2004. Before that, she ran a private school for 10 years. Now, Bonnie is traveling and also wrote a book called Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google. I met up with her on Google Talk (the transcript below has spellchecking and punctuation added).

Hi Bonnie!

Good morning.

Where are you at the moment? Are you doing interviews all week for your book?

I’m in Nevada entertaining family and friends for the holidays. It’s been a very busy week interviewing and setting up interviews for the coming weeks.

Did you find a publisher for the book yet?

Decided to publish it myself for now.

Ah… do you want to use some online service for that or…?

I have speaking engagements coming up, so it looks like I have a venue to sell the book through my website and at book signings.

I want to go back to the beginning of your work for Google. That was in 1999 right?

Correct.

At the time, did any of your friends actually know about the company?

No, and I had never heard of Google

Did you check out their site to prepare for the job interview? Like, try a search on google.com….?

No, frankly I was pretty computer illiterate!

Did you have a computer at the time?

Yes.

Your job started out as part-time, 10 hours a week. What did you do the other time?

I had a massage business in Silicon Valley that was just starting out. I had private clients and did massage for other businesses.

Were many of your clients from tech startups back then?

I did massage for Tibco. But mostly trade shows, parties, random small business. But a lot of my clients were in the tech business.

You mentioned before that massaging the Google employees was a bit different. They are all very geeky, I suppose. What was that like?

Well, first of all, they are socially shy for the most part. They are very involved with their work so not a lot of time for interpersonal relationships. For those reasons, they told me they lacked touch in their lives and really enjoyed massage because they felt something that was missing.

Plus, they suffered from the stressed associated with working on a computer all day (and night). They had wrist, neck and back problems.

I see. The massage you are doing is them lying face down on a bed, right?

Yes, they start face down on a massage table with a place for their face that is comfortable. Then the flip over and I work on their head neck and limbs from that angle. They are draped the whole time with sheets.

Sometimes being “socially shy” or let’s say unaware of certain social etiquette can lead to unwanted rudeness… did this ever happen to you at Google?

“One time an engineer explained to me that they see no need for small talk, so if they never look at me then they could avoid that.”

I had a hard time adjusting to some not looking me in the eyes.

One time an engineer explained to me that they see no need for small talk, so if they never look at me then they could avoid that.

That’s interesting. I’ve met many engineers/ developers who also frown on small talk. Did you talk a lot with them during massages though? Or does it depend on the client?

Yes, many of the Googlers fell asleep because their workload was so intense that when they finally stopped for a break, they just shut down.

Heh.

But at first, when they were nervous about the whole thing, they talked to get to know me and build trust.

Were they ever starting tech talk, and you had to stop them half-way through?

Actually, I learned a lot from them about the search engine, science, life from their perspective and loved talking with them. They were really intelligent and though I had a hard time understanding some of what they were expressing, I felt like I grew a lot from my experience with them.

OK. So in the beginning, there were like 40 employees with you, right? Did you massage all of them, like Sergey Brin, Larry Page…?

Yes, mostly all of them. Sergey and Larry included.

Did they sometimes seek your perspective too? Like ask for advice?

Well, considering the age difference, yes, they did consider my life experiences valuable and I think I taught them also.

When the company grew, did you swich to a full-time job with Google?

It was never a set, full time experience, because I was a contractor. I set my own hours, but the demand grew so great that I was working 5 days a week at the end.

And then someday the employees had to pay a fee for the formerly free massages for them, right? To cut down on demand…?

At first it was free, but I was booked 6 months in advance. It was hard for the new people to get an appointment. So, they instituted a co-pay and it slowed it down for a very short time, but that didn’t last long.

As a joke, people were offering their options to get a spot on the calendar.

Heh. I bet with that workload and the type of work, you were able to arm-wrestle down most male employees of the company

I think I was very popular. I could always cut in line in the lunch room and no one complained.

What’s the Google cafeteria like? And with whom would you usually sit down together?

Charlie [Ayers] made incredible food. Organic and extremely healthy. Great soups that we could take home after work in a Chinese take out container! I never visited the grocery store in those days.

I ate with anybody and everybody.

So the co-founders sit down, and people take a seat next to them. But I suppose that was not like that anymore after a couple of years…?

“I had a guest for lunch and Sergey was at the next table. He got up right in the middle of eating and started doing push ups on the floor. He had some kind of bet going with the people at his table. My guest was pretty surprised.”

The CEO, Eric, Sergey and Larry all ate with the rest of us. I’ve had lunch with them all. It is very relaxed.

Once, I had a guest for lunch and Sergey was at the next table. He got up right in the middle of eating and started doing push ups on the floor. He had some kind of bet going with the people at his table. My guest was pretty surprised.

How were new employees introduced to others at the time? I mean, when there were just hundred or more around. Was there a formal introduction?

It’s hard for me to say. My position there was removed from the “teams.” I worked on everyone, but on a very individual basis.

They had a meeting every Friday where I believe most introductions took place. I was ALWAYS doing massage, so hardly ever could attend.

Did you have a computer at work where you could check out e.g. the intranet MOMA and the employee profile pages for everyone?

Yes. My office had a computer that showed the schedule for massage and the intranet.

Did the intranet news interest you? Or I suppose you were always busy anyway…

It was very interesting. I read when I could. Every now and then someone missed their appointment and I had a break.

Did the atmosphere and buzz change when new products or sites were about to be rolled out?

Yes. As you probably know, they go by an 80/20 rule there. 20% of their time is used for creating new ideas. There were so many interesting things going on all the time, it seemed like there was no lack of excitement.

Did you have your own 20% time?

Are you kidding? NO! My job needed no more creativity. It was very intuitive and I gave it my all.

I wanted to ask, what was the weirdest thing that happened during your work with Google over the years?

If you read the book, you’ll find out!

Heh, OK. Did you ever meet celebrities at Google?

Yes, I met Al Gore.

Oh yeah, and Ben Affleck.

In 2004, Google went public. You had some stock options from the beginning of your job right?

Yes, I was offered options on an ongoing basis throughout my work there.

At what point in time did you realize, I’m probably ending up a millionaire here thanks to these options?

Toward the middle of 2003, it started to look pretty promising. But I’m an optimist and I hoped for the moon right from the start.

It was you who pushed for options, I understand… in the beginning…

Yes, I asked for that in my contract.

During the build-up to the IPO, what was it like? The New York Times estimated Google produced as many as 1000 or more millionaires. Was that time in any way weird?

I talk a lot about the build up in Giigle. It was a very stressful time. The quiet period required by the SEC was painfully quiet.

Except for an interview by the co-founders with Playboy…

True, true. Everyone makes an error now and then.

A couple of months later, you left Google. Why?

My hands hurt.

Seriously, it was just time. The company inevitably would grow more “corporate” and the feeling of the start-up changed. I felt it was time to start something else.

Yeah, I heard today at Google there’s a bit of a distance between pre-IPO and post-IPO employees…

I can’t imagine how it could be otherwise.

Were there many people calling it quits a while after the IPO?

Yes, I believe most of the first 100 people left the company during the first year.

Did you have a party when you left?

I just took a nap.

Heh. What did you do after taking a break? You started writing the book?

I wrote a lot of the book while I still worked there. I moved to Nevada and then did some serious traveling.

In another interview, you mentioned you help people during your traveling, and that you started a foundation. What exactly do you do?

I have a private foundation that makes grants to different charible causes. It is a lot more gratifying to be able to do some hands on work rather than just writing a check.

I have visited many needy sights and helped by just loving people and showing human compassion. I am able to help financially for the basic necessities, food, water and shelter.

I am a lover of the Bible and have had the exciting opportunity to help with the discovery of Biblical Relics.
Noah’s Ark. The Ark of the Covenant. Mt. Sinai.

These days, do you still keep up with news about Google?

“When I first worked at Google, there was no stress in my life, so I took flying lessons to create some.”

Yes, I am on an X-Googler’s site and the pilots at Google site.

What’s the pilots at Google site?

There are a number of pilots at Google. Eric Schmidt is a pilot. They have a mailing list where flying adventures and info is shared. I love flying!

Wow. So you got a pilots license? Since when?

When I first worked at Google, there was no stress in my life, so I took flying lessons to create some.

And now, of course, Google got their own jet….

Of course…

… and their own landing place shared over at NASA I heard!

Everyone loves Google!

Some human rights groups have criticized Google in the past though, what do you make of this?

If you knew how socially responsible the founders are, there would be no room for criticism.

What of Google’s tools do you use today, if any?

Google maps, finance, email, this, umm…calendar…

I try all the new stuff.

Did you also try your hands at Blogger.com?

Of Course. That’s where I saw that lovely picture.

Which one?

Where I was discussed in a way that stabbed my vanity.

Do you perhaps refer to a forum comment made on Google Blogoscoped by James…

Probably, it’s all becoming foggy lately…

What other websites do you check out regularly? Where’s that Ex-Googlers site, by the way?

It’s an email set up for ex-googlers that is invitation only.

I read the news on Google and keep up with my investments on Google’s terrific finance site. I read sites about my favorite topic, eschatology.

What is eschatology?

The study of end times.

On this mailing list for Ex-Googlers, is there a lot of nostalgia, or criticism of today’s Google? Or what is being talked about there?

It’s kind of like a support group. SWS was difficult to maneuver alone.

They do talk some about today’s Google and they remember the good ol’ days.

What’s SWS?

Sudden Wealth Syndrome. Don’t laugh, it’s a serious issue.

What are the symptoms?

Not fitting in. Having no one to play with. Feeling unuseful. Guilt.

Have you actually heard of Ex-Googlers re-applying for a job at Google?

I have not.

So how do you “treat” SWS?

I give. That helps. And just knowing others are experiencing the same feelings, makes you feel a little less nuts.

Did you find yourself having a lot of new “friends” after 2005? That’s when you were able to sell stock right?

Luckily, I have always been rich with friends. But sadly, some people have a hard time adjusting to you when they perceive that you are suddenly wealthy.

I have new business “opportunities” often.

I see. Bonnie, anything else you’d like to share with us? Anything I should have asked you?

I appreciate your interest and it was fun typing with you.

One more question… What is Google’s best-kept secret?

If there is one, it is best kept.

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Fox, NYT Play With Wikipedia

WebProNews Staff — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:13:49 +0000

IP addresses associated with news organizations have been connected to edits made in Wikipedia that either smear rivals or remove negative information from their entries.

Fox, NYT Play With Wikipedia

No one can claim innocence on either side of the political spectrum when it comes to playing with Wikipedia entries. The online encyclopedia that anyone can edit sometimes suffers from that openness.

The debut of an automated Wikipedia edit tracker – Wikipedia Scanner – from CalTech grad student Virgil Griffith made it easier for people to see the connections between anonymous edits and the netblocks of IP addresses from which they originate.

Big organizations tend to own blocks of IP addresses to suit their Internet communication needs. It’s unlikely a random person would be using an address that is part of a netblock. That makes it easier to find out who has been playing fast and loose with Wikipedia entries.

Both Fox News and the New York Times have been caught being naughty with certain entries. The Geeks Are Sexy blog has a long list of Fox News edits. Here’s an example:

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Scoble: Microsoft Is Run By Geeks

WebProNews Staff — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:50:56 +0000

Robert Scoble earned his fame through corporate blogging, not PR blogging, where messages are always sugared up, but through saying what he wanted about Microsoft while working at Microsoft. He’s on to other things now, but is still giving the Beast of Redmond the old what-for.

"Microsoft is run by geeks," says the Scobleizer, bemoaning the company’s general lack of innovation as three of its top designers defect to their own company – a company that makes virtual flowers. Apparently, the virtual goods market is the next big thing.

Don’t laugh. How many Pet Rocks were sold again? And people make money all the time selling imaginary swords and trading pretend money for real money. The Internet’s run by geeks too, and judging from the 20 or younger folks I meet, they’re multiplying – and getting girlfriends these days too.

But, according to Scoble, the geeks at Microsoft just don’t get anything beyond the Hit-It-And-Quit-It School of Design – no slap and tickle, no nothing. Creativity, he says, is not something that is rewarded in Redmond.

He waxes poetic:

See, I know two of the three people involved.

But there are other designers I’ve seen come to Microsoft and leave, too.

These designers tried to make Microsoft build products that are more fun to use, more emotional, more visually pleasing, more user-centric.

IE, more like the iPhone.

But they keep getting shot down, over and over and over.

So they leave.

Not sure of the meter, and the syllabic structure’s inconsistent, but the beats are on in an offbeat way, I dig the repetition, the IE double entendre, and the turn at the end.

Aesthetically pleasing, user-friendly, "artistic" ideas are killed because of schedules and lack of "hard" value. As a result, Microsoft has been behind on most innovation, chasing the highs of other companies instead by creating competing products.

But what captures the heart of the consumer, says Scoble, is something beyond that, something new and magic.

That’s an interesting (and true) concept, I think. I can’t speak to the truth of the internal structure of Microsoft, but not everything is steel and plastic and function. Humans need more than rocks and mud, always have. They need a little magic.

And to be fair, the demos of Surface Computing is a lot of magic. Like, tanker-trucks-worth of magic.

Adobe PR’s Nightmare

Robert Scoble — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:32:26 +0000

Last night when picking up burritos at Tres Amigos in Half Moon Bay with Patrick someone came up to me (sorry, didn’t get remember his name and even if I had, I’d keep it secret to protect the innocent) and asked “are you Robert Scoble?” He recognized me from my blog. Turns out he’s an engineer on Adobe’s Flex team. We small talked a bit. I told him that I’ll be on the first leg of the Adobe AIR bus tour (doing a bunch of interviews and going to learn more about Flash and Flex and AIR). Said I was looking forward to talking with Kevin Lynch, and other executives and geeks who are expected to be on the bus.

But, I’ve been poking around Adobe for a while now and know from how they answer this question that something is up and that something has news value:

“How’s the work on the iPhone version of Flash going?”

He instantly answered “I can’t talk about that.”

This answer is so fast, and so consistent, that it just drives me nuts (it’s the fourth Adobe employee I’ve asked about this and got the exact same answer). So, of course, when I get on the bus, that’s the first thing I’m going to ask Kevin Lynch about.

Anyway, why is this Adobe PR’s greatest nightmare? Well, it’s every PR team’s nightmare to have an engineer meet a journalist, or worse yet a blogger, without a PR person around. Who knows what might get said?

In this case, though, they have this team locked down. It’s almost like they got PR training from Steve Jobs’ PR team. Oh, wait, that’s actually the case! (One of the head PR guys at Adobe used to work at Apple).

Damn, foiled again!

But, anyway, something is up inside Adobe regarding the iPhone. Post your rumors, innuendos, and spy photos here.

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TechMeme Isn’t Quite Google News

Robert Scoble — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:46:13 +0000

TechMeme really wants to be Google News, it seems. I see less and less blogs on TechMeme lately and more and more “professional news.”

The problem with that shift is that Google News already does “professional news” a lot better than TechMeme. For instance, do you find a single story about Sun Microsystems’ new blade servers on TechMeme? No. But you find 23 (and more coming every minute) over on Google News.

The problem with Google News is that it doesn’t recognize single bloggers, but only teams. And I don’t see any video yet on Google News (I have the only video I’ve seen of the press conference so far).

But, this shows you that there still isn’t one place you can go to get all the tech news that’s happening in the world today. That’s yet another reason I read so many feeds. Someone will bring me the important news, I just have to dig for it.

Anyway, today I’ll be on Cranky Geeks. So, consider this my cranky geek rant of the day.

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Perfect Digg Bait

Neil Patel — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:36:51 +0000

The other day I was browsing the Digg homepage and noticed something really weird. It seems Craigslist made the homepage for an article that was about "why geeks and nerds make the best boyfriends" and to top it off it did really well.

The date shows this article was written on April 3, 2005 so it is probably safe to say that it is not "digg bait" and it was written for fun. The article contains no sales pitch and seems like it was written by a geek. The important thing to take from this is that if random stories such as ones from Craigslist or ones about Kevin Federline can make the Digg homepage, then you can too with a little creativity.

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Another Geeks and Suits Rumble

Jerry Bowles — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:32:23 +0000

It is a truth held to be self-evident among IT professionals: geeks are from Krypton, suits are from Uranus. The antipathy between members of the code is poetry tribe and the non-IT managers for whom they often work is so common and all-prevailing that it has even become a marketing cliche-like the obnoxious propeller head in the CDW commercials who is always one-upping the guys from the Dilbert cubicles.

It’s all good natured, of course. Or is it?

The proximate trigger for these reflections is the rough treatment that a summary of Andrew McAfee’s Harvard Business Review article Mastering the Three Worlds of Information Technology has gotten from the local heroes at Slashdot.

McAfee’s piece is one of those noble attempts to put a framework around enterprise information technology that goes beyond technology to show how IT fits within the broader landscape of organizations and to help non-technical managers understand how to apply it to the business. It is the kind of bridge-building effort that you would assume would be welcomed by the both sides of the corporate digital divide.

Not so, apparently. The Slashdoters were inflamed, offering such useful ripostes as “Lucky we have commentary Academe to put us people that actually work in IT onto the proper path. Possibly he would be equally open to our suggestions on how universities should operate” and “I am not the only ubergeek that thinks the IT people should be the high paid personnel and the management asshats should be the underpaid paper pushers that we all know they are. If I had a company all the managers would have to have undergrad degrees in CS or something before they were allowed to get their MBAs.” There were a lot more comments, most of them negative.

So much for detente. As fellow Enterprise Irregular Thomas Otter puts it:
There is something rather teenage about how software developers of a certain type react to those from outside the clique who dare stray on their turf, even unwittingly. They are mean, cutting, churlish, they think it is cool to be abusive and rude, but in fact, it is merely a poor guise for insecurity. I have lots of respect for people with deep technical prowess, but little respect for those that use that prowess to insult others.

The reasons for the resentment between the two camps (and frankly it comes mainly from the IT side) are not hard to guess. Suits make more money and can go further up within organizations. Many geeks are indeed brighter in pure IQ terms but they tend be smart in an abstract, mathematical, reclusive sort of way which, translated into corpspeak, means that have “poor people skills.” Not all, but many.

Can the geeks and suits ever get along? Sure, when utility computing becomes the norm and the geeks are working and competing with each other for promotions instead of accountants and marketers.

As for McAfee, the man who inadvertently started the latest saga in this never-ending war, he seems somewhat bemused:
I was eager to see what progress could be made around my ideas after they were put in front of the Slashdot community. And I’m sorry to learn that the answer is not much,’ apparently because the article’s ideas aren’t novel enough to merit consideration or debate. If that’s the case, I hope I’ve at least done the world’s IT professionals a service by writing something they can give to their colleagues on the business side to facilitate communications with them.

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The Suits vs. the Geeks

Robert Scoble — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:22:27 +0000

I’m sitting with a bunch of suits right now. It’s the Savvis Web 2.0 conference. Almost all men. A large percentage of whom are older than me.

This is NOT the YouTube generation. Although they sure talk about it and talk about MySpace (one speaker suggested that everyone should have a MySpace page for each of their products).

It’s interesting to see the difference between this audience and the folks who showed up at the Podcasting Expo last week. There was a lot more energy there. But a lot less money and power. This room reeks of power. That room reeked of creativity and fun.

I’m seeing this “geek vs. suits” separation more often lately.

Yesterday I went to lunch at a country club over on Sand Hill Road. They wouldn’t let me in because I was wearing jeans. “Excuse me?” I said in my head. After all, it was people in jeans (denim, they called it) who made the products and services that made all those VCs so rich that they could have a private club to hang out at and play golf at.

They made me sit outside for lunch. Which was just fine. My host (who helped fund the country club) and I had a good laugh about that.

It reminded me of the time when I worked the counter at LZ Premiums in San Jose. A guy came in with ratty jeans and a T-shirt. I treated him the same way I treated all the suits that came in. He noted that and bought a nice camera system. Later, after he kept coming back in and buying a lot of stuff, I learned he was worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Said that I was the first sales guy who treated him well, which is why he brought his business back to me.

Last night I saw it again. I wore my standard jeans and T-shirt to a press meeting hosted by Become.com (a cool shopping search engine, they released a research report that found that people liked their shopping search engine better than Google). Everyone else was dressed up.

I’m gonna put my jeans on and hang out with the geeks this weekend at Code-Camp in Silicon Valley. No Beck, but no suits either.

The real action in the valley is still with the folks who wear jeans and T-shirts. No matter how much all the suits try to avoid that.

When did Silicon Valley go all suity on me? It’s certainly a sign that we’re back in a bubble. In 2001 when everyone was unemployed I rarely saw suits. Now that the money is back I’m seeing a lot more suits.

Not a good sign.

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Google Pitching Jobs To SciFi Geeks

WebProNews Staff — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:12:51 +0000

When the World Science Fiction Convention, best known as WorldCon, starts up in Anaheim today, some Googlers will be in attendance. One would think Google’s presence at a well-known international conference would be enough to justify sending this writer out to Anaheim to cover the event.

Google Winds Up…

Alas, the discussion was over faster than you can say “Reuters outsources writing jobs to India.”

I’ll just have to get Connie Willis’s autograph on my copy of “To Say Nothing of the Dog” some other time.

Google announced that Worldcon beckons on their Official Blog. Since they had so much fun celebrating Star Trek’s 40th anniversary at the 5th annual Trek convention in Las Vegas, they have decided to enjoy the goings-on at Worldcon as well:

So we are in fact throwing a party at this week’s World Science Fiction Convention, LACon IV — on Wednesday evening, in the main party area on the fifth floor of the Anaheim Hilton. Convention attendees are welcome to drop by to talk with Googlers from the Mountain View and Santa Monica offices and see some things that I’m sure Serenity’s engineer Kaylee Frye would consider worthy of a “Shiny!”

If you think Google might be a good fit for you, stop by the party or head over to our jobs site.

An interesting place to look for potential Googlers, certainly. Science fiction has been a tremendous influence for many in the geek crowd, and I would not be surprised to learn that many people picked up their first flip phone in homage to the original Star Trek communicator.

The geek theme runs deep at Google, judging from several things like how they chose a number of shares of stock to issue, to references to geek culture in their communications.

Let’s hope they get some pictures from the party at Worldcon, because how often will one get to see a line of job applicants dressed for the Klingon frontier, Middle-Earth, and a trip in a Tardis.

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