I went to California a couple weeks back and it was so god damn like the last trip I took to California, you ask if they want ice cream, they both say yes.
The first trip was before this blog existed so let me recap the reason for it here:
I said, “Hey Google, give me a job?”
Google say, “You seem cool, let’s talk”
We talked for a while on phones and whatnot
I say, “Hey Google, enough talking, give me a job”
Google say, “Come down and meet us boy, we fly you down”
I say, “Okay”
I go to California, we meet
I get home and say, “Hey Google, job now?”
Computer says no.
I say, “Poop.”
Fast forward a few years and I’m working at Thrive. The reason for the second trip went like this:
Intuit say, “Hey companies, we’re having a contest!”
Thrive say, “Can we be a finalist?”
Intuit say, “Sure!”
Thrive say, “Yay!”
Intuit say, “You have to come to San Francisco to present”
Thrive say, “We’ll take a plane!”
Intuit say, “Cool!”
And then we took a plane, presented and held our breath.
I say, “We win?”
Judges say no
I say, “Poop”
Anyway, the similarity. Right. Both trips were split between Mountain View and San Francisco. The Intuit campus is right next to the Google campus, and I did a shit-ton of U-turns on El Camino Real, which is Spanish for ‘road that everything is on.’ It’s hard to explain how two things feel similar, so I won’t try. But if you want to experience a similar thing, eat a bowl of red gummi bears for supper tonight, then eat a bowl of green ones tomorrow night. Repeat until you run out of colours then give yourself an enema. Then you’ll understand. Yes, you’ll understand very well.
I won’t bore with more words, but you can check this video:
And there are some photos over on the flickr.
I will point you, however, to two photos that I think exemplify the difference in all things 2006 Angus and 2011 Angus.
2006
And 2011…
