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Protestors in front of the Yahoo! sign chanting, “Arnold, Arnold, you can’t hide. We can see your corporate side!”

No matter what you think of Arnold, I think that any employer should get credit for providing extra-curricular opportunities to its employers. Today’s speech could have been a catalyst for kudos from the press on Yahoo!’s “The Influentials” speaker series (I think it’s cooler than the free food for which Google gets so many pats on the back). But instead, we very well may lose a few PR points when footage of angry teachers picketing in front of the Yahoo! name airs on the local news tonight.

Oh, well. As long as they spell the name right…

Ian racing to moblog the random Rubik’s Cube on the sidewalk.

Ian’s post went up @ 3:46pm….FACE!

Free food at Yahoo!

Los Altos Hills is nice, but Malibu is nicer. 😉

Word of advice: When playing pinata at 4am, don’t leave the candy outside until the next afternoon.

My deepest thanks to everyone who made this a birthday good enough to make me forget about the haircut. I will post some photos later this week.

 

I feel so bleeding edge! Too bad we can’t use these over here. Learn about QR Codes here. I am not so secretly obsessed with the idea of hyperlinking meatspace (the opposite of cyberspace ).

While Damon had the best week ever, I seem to have paid for it with the worst haircut ever. Having just moved to a new city (I now actually live in San Francisco, will blog about that later) and needing to find a new barber, I decided not to risk precisely this situation before last night’s Black and White Ball. However, that decision, while wise in hindsight, came back to bite me in the ass when I found that many SF barber shops are not open on Sundays (lazy SOBs!). Maybe I should have taken the hint. But, I couldn’t go another week without a haircut, and I can’t stand the idea of patronizing the on-site haircut trailer at work (the one time I did HAVE to do that is definitely the low-point of my career at Yahoo!). Suffice it to say that I now know, first-hand, why the fade never really caught on for white guys. My mom is gonna kick my ass!

I reviewed the place on Y! Local, you can read it here.

Rob and I went out for *a* drink in Hollywood last Friday night. The only thing was we took a little while getting to Cabo Cantina, where we were meeting Liz and Angie, so they weren’t quite there anymore. By that time, they were at Barney’s, which is a bit of a hike (ok, it’s just a half mile).  But anyways, I had just paid a *lot* of money to park on Sunset and I wasn’t going to move the car, so our 1 drink kinda turned into a bit of a pub crawl. By the time we got to The Comedy Store, I was, shall we say, slightly on the gullible side. So, when I saw David Bowie performing on the jumbotron outside, I was easily convinced that he was actually inside…he wasn’t.

“Torque“…quite possibly one of the worst films ever made. This is what happens when you give a music video director a feature budget. Joseph Kahn can eat me!

Damon just reminded me that I broke a $200k+ vase at a party back in college. I was pretty drunk. I was drunk a lot in college, I guess. I have to guess, because I don’t remember large chunks of college…maybe that’s a sign. Anyway, we got out of paying for the vase by citing the stupidity of putting an item of such value on display in a bar during a frat party. I don’t think our frat had anymore parties at that bar.