Googol: So Big

OK, so Yahoo Design Week was last week ...not that I got to go to it or anything. Instead I went to Google's carnie picnic where I got free french fries, satay and anything else I could snatch with my grubby meat paws. There were thousands of people packed into that Ampitheater including a live animal show (not that kind of show), acrobats, jugglers and even a slew of Google Idol contestants in Google shirts, in addition to their text message voting fans.

I know a cult when I see one. Based on Dr. Emeril Lazarus' site Start Your Own Cult here is the evidence:

• "the proper location can mean the difference between operating for years without hindrance and being busted in a week by the forces of Evil". Exhibit A: Mountain View.
• "Use a mood-enhancer like ecstacy so everyone is in a loving mood and all together for support and courage."Exhibit B: Free beer.
• "You'll need to find someplace 'up there' that your members will look forward going to, when the time is ripe."Exhibit C: Google, or Googol, is 10 to the power of 100, a number greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe.

DMV: BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I'm on hold with the California DMV. After 9 months of visiting the SF office and Cal Highway Patrol on a monthly basis, they finally approved my registration on May 27. It expired on June 14. I paid $200 (not including about 15 hours of work leave) to be registered for less than 30 days. Sweet. I've called 3 numbers and listened to the same loop of Carly Simon songs waiting to get my renewal letter. Every time she sings, "Nobody Does It Better," I want to reach through the phone to the late seventies and punch her fringe vest off.

Link: History of Licensing Before the DMV
The choice of language is so jaunty. The writers were so pleasant pre-DMV.

A New Leaf: My Environment

So I’ve quit my job, secured a couple of fun contracts and am doing fine. Now that I’ve only got a week left as an environmental advocate I need to come clean. There are some things that I can’t help but love: free wi-fi, liquor and birth control pills. Other things I’m not supposed to like but do include: carnies, crude bumper stickers and pirates. So far none of these are suspected carcinogens.