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no place like chrome (dev summit)
Nov. 21st, 2013 08:48 amI'm on the bus to the Quad for Chrome Dev Summit Day 2. This is surreal since it means I've been at Google for almost 8 weeks. Tomorrow we're going to Vegas. It's pretty crazy.
Anyway, the last few days have been pretty great for the most part. I went bowling (at Google -- we have an alley) with my Noogler buddy David last Thursday, and we went bowling again last night. I suck so much, but I guess if I keep going maybe I'll get better. I need to strengthen my left arm I think -- I just haven't lifted weights in years and have gotten super-weak.
Brian E had a birthday/games party on Saturday, and while I was originally worried about being too old/antisocial to go, it worked out okay. Lots of CMU people from around the class of '06, give or take a few years. We played some games and hung out talking a lot and I surprisingly ended up running up against my Zipcar limit. Oh, and the Zipcar was hilarious -- it was missing its right passenger mirror. I called Zipcar and they were like "we know, we're fixing it tomorrow" but I'm like "is this LEGAL to drive?" and they said "I dunno, it is in Illinois but you're in California. Just be careful?" I guess it worked out okay. I spent the afternoon before the party running errands -- got some stuff from Target including Christmas lights so I could decorate this tree in my office for "Chromesmas", and then I also went to REI to get a new backpack and some lights to use for bicycle riding -- so now I have a blinker to put on my backpack and I also have a headlight. Hopefully this will make it less dangerous to ride Google clown bikes around at night.
Last week I also had Indian lunch at our on-campus restaurant for the first time with Jorge, dkitchin, zra, and Sheena. It's fun to not have to calculate a check afterwards and also to have them say "what's your LDAP?" when you have a reservation.
This week zml and Matthias started at Google so I had lunch with them on Tuesday. We were also joined by Pete who I used to play D&D with in Seattle and hadn't seen in 6 years, so that was cool, I didn't even know he was at Google. Pretty crazy. We went and found the Skeeball machine in one of the adjacent buildings afterwards, which was also super-fun.
Yesterday was the FIRST day of Chrome Dev Summit. The entire week has been insane leading up to it -- lots of people in town on my team so it's been super-exciting to meet all of these people whose names I've seen all along. And we had GDE summit so I've been hanging out with the two Devtools GDE's as well. In general it's just been great. I spent yesterday basically running back and forth between the conference and the social media room helping out with various things and also just getting to watch some of the talks! It's really cool to be part of something so big and so awesome, there are like 300 people here for the summit as well as like 1000 people watching over livestream.
Wheeeeeeeee.
Though, unfortunately, yesterday was the first November 20 since... 2000, I think, that I didn't get to play Bemani on the day. I'm going to see if I can do something about that today, especially since we have at least two DDR machines on campus.
Anyway, the last few days have been pretty great for the most part. I went bowling (at Google -- we have an alley) with my Noogler buddy David last Thursday, and we went bowling again last night. I suck so much, but I guess if I keep going maybe I'll get better. I need to strengthen my left arm I think -- I just haven't lifted weights in years and have gotten super-weak.
Brian E had a birthday/games party on Saturday, and while I was originally worried about being too old/antisocial to go, it worked out okay. Lots of CMU people from around the class of '06, give or take a few years. We played some games and hung out talking a lot and I surprisingly ended up running up against my Zipcar limit. Oh, and the Zipcar was hilarious -- it was missing its right passenger mirror. I called Zipcar and they were like "we know, we're fixing it tomorrow" but I'm like "is this LEGAL to drive?" and they said "I dunno, it is in Illinois but you're in California. Just be careful?" I guess it worked out okay. I spent the afternoon before the party running errands -- got some stuff from Target including Christmas lights so I could decorate this tree in my office for "Chromesmas", and then I also went to REI to get a new backpack and some lights to use for bicycle riding -- so now I have a blinker to put on my backpack and I also have a headlight. Hopefully this will make it less dangerous to ride Google clown bikes around at night.
Last week I also had Indian lunch at our on-campus restaurant for the first time with Jorge, dkitchin, zra, and Sheena. It's fun to not have to calculate a check afterwards and also to have them say "what's your LDAP?" when you have a reservation.
This week zml and Matthias started at Google so I had lunch with them on Tuesday. We were also joined by Pete who I used to play D&D with in Seattle and hadn't seen in 6 years, so that was cool, I didn't even know he was at Google. Pretty crazy. We went and found the Skeeball machine in one of the adjacent buildings afterwards, which was also super-fun.
Yesterday was the FIRST day of Chrome Dev Summit. The entire week has been insane leading up to it -- lots of people in town on my team so it's been super-exciting to meet all of these people whose names I've seen all along. And we had GDE summit so I've been hanging out with the two Devtools GDE's as well. In general it's just been great. I spent yesterday basically running back and forth between the conference and the social media room helping out with various things and also just getting to watch some of the talks! It's really cool to be part of something so big and so awesome, there are like 300 people here for the summit as well as like 1000 people watching over livestream.
Wheeeeeeeee.
Though, unfortunately, yesterday was the first November 20 since... 2000, I think, that I didn't get to play Bemani on the day. I'm going to see if I can do something about that today, especially since we have at least two DDR machines on campus.
