Off-Topic: A Day at Google

Work and travel have been hectic of late, which has left me very little time to focus on other creative tasks.  Instead of ignoring this space, I'm posting something that is unrelated to the topics I usually cover, but that I thought some of the people who read this blog might find interesting.

What appears below is a portion of an e-mail that I sent to a group of friends recently. 

The most interesting thing that I've done lately is a business trip that I  took to San Francisco last week.  It was my first time in California, and I got to spend a half-day walking around San Fran.  Nice city.  The purpose of the trip was a bunch of meetings/trainings that I had with the folks at Google (yeah, that Google), and they took place at the Googleplex.  It was fun seeing the Google campus in a strange computer geek kind of way.  Here are a few facts I found interesting about Google: 

1. An employee of Google is referred to as a Googler.
2. All food on the Google campus is free.
3. There is an unwritten design rule at the Google campus whereby you should not be further than 100 feet away from food and coffee at any time when in one of the buildings.
4. There is a lot of food and coffee around.
5. There is a T-Rex skeleton on the property.  His name is Stan.
6. The Google on-site store is in beta.
7. The first thing that I was asked to do when arriving on the Google campus was sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Now that I've opened myself up to litigation, I think I'll sign off.