Flavor tripping!

After waiting in a line with a palpable buzz, we were handed little purple packets with a telling bulge in the middle. The six of us who'd managed to find each other found a table in the slightly-too-hip club and popped the Miracle Berry. It was about the size of an olive, with a pit in the middle (do berries have pits? maybe this ( Read more... )

I've got a simple idea for a Facebook app, and I'll bake a batch of cookies for whoever builds it ( Read more... )

Let's align your incentives with mine: if you refer a qualified admin candidate to me, and he/she gets hired and takes my role, I will pay you a $1000 bounty.

Parsing the language above:

Refer. You or the candidate should send their resume to jessef(at)google(dot)com. If the candidate emails me directly, they should mention your name.

Qualified. For ( Read more... )

The offer letter in my hand makes it official: I'm going to be an Associate Product Marketing Manager at Google, just as soon as I find my replacement. Let me know if you or someone you know wants to be a admin for a diverse, international team in a thrilling department at the headquarters of best large workplace in the world!

What's more wasteful than Chrysler's "$2.99 gas" campaign? A billboard-truck rolling down Mission advertising it! COME ON.

When I bought a Kitchenaid ice cream attachment from Fry's with the gift card Deep gave me months ago, I was had more than half resigned it to a fate of living in a dark corner of a cupboard along with the metaphorical electric knives of the kitchen world. A failed first attempt at making ice cream, wherein I dumped cut strawberries into a French ( Read more... )

While it was a bit of a bummer hanging out in the grand ballroom of the Fairmont and seeing the projection of Hillary's victory in California splayed across a huge screen, I'm coming out of Tuesday with a ton of inspiration, a huge pile of laundry, and $50 less in my bank account.

Even before David Plouffe asked us to give a little more money to ( Read more... )

Work has held its share of challenges and opportunities. Most importantly, I'm nervously thrilled about my "apprenticeship" to the mobile user experience design team. Over the next few months I'll be beefing up my graphics and interaction design skills while working on a design project from conception through research, prototyping, testing, ( Read more... )

Of course there's a ton to observe about India, but what immediately rushes to mind when thinking of this five-thousand year old civilization is the traffic. It's madness out there: traffic lights provide little more than a suggestion of who should stop and go, it's not uncommon to see a goat hauling a refrigerator the wrong way on a divided multi- ( Read more... )

This month marks my 48th as an LJer, and god bless it for sticking around virtually unchanged for all these years. Now I'd like to go about figuring out how to preserve this chronicling of my life, should something happen to LJ unexpectedly. I was starting to go through and save each page, but then I realized that wouldn't capture the comments ( Read more... )