{"id":101,"date":"2005-12-10T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2005\/12\/11\/random-things-said-at-google\/"},"modified":"2005-12-10T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T16:38:12","slug":"random-things-said-at-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2005\/12\/10\/random-things-said-at-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Random things said at Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Edwards, an ex-Google employee who runs xooglers.blogspot.com (he thought up the term AdWords), has a funny list of random things he remembers saying during his <a href=\"http:\/\/xooglers.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/random-things-i-remember-saying-in-my.html\">first month working for the search engine company<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cWow. That\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a really cool roller coaster. How many sets of K\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2Nex did you have to use to make that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cNo. I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve never made cappuccino before. How does it work?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cUm, is it okay that all these bikes are blocking the fire exit?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cHi Larry. Hi Sergey. What happened to your office? Well, it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s just\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 uh, nothing. Hey, which one of these remotes works with the VW Beetle? No, that other one. There, under the couch between your hockey jersey and the LEGO Mindstorms&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cSee, you can knock down more of the garbage cans if you bounce the ball instead of just rolling it straight at them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cHow long does it take the sauna to get hot? You think it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s okay to go in the women\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s locker room to get some towels since we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re out in here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Edwards, an ex-Google employee who runs xooglers.blogspot.com (he thought up the term AdWords), has a funny list of random things he remembers saying during his first month working for the search engine company: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cWow. That\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a really cool roller coaster. How many sets of K\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2Nex did you have to use to make that?&#8221; \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cNo. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2005\/12\/10\/random-things-said-at-google\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random things said at Google&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}