I’ll be in New York this week Tuesday to Friday. Any advice on fun things to do? I’ve already done most of the touristy stuff, but don’t know enough non touristy things or places. 
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In New York this week
Sunday, February 7th, 2010Robert J Sawyer at Google Waterloo
Monday, June 22nd, 2009A few weeks ago we hosted Robert J Sawyer over for lunch and he gave a pretty interesting talk about his upcoming book Wake. The books is about the Web gaining consciousness. I’m not even a huge sci-fi fan and I found it pretty interesting.
First two weeks
Saturday, January 24th, 2009I just spent 2 very warm weeks in Mountain View, CA as part of my orientation at Google. Unfortunately it’s time to go back to the -18C temperatures of Canadia. A bunch of people keep asking me how it was, so here’s the lowdown:
- Awesome food (I made a counscious effort to gain 5 pounds in 2 weeks, lets see how it worked out)
- Sweet weather (yeah I just have to say it again to rub it in)
- Went on a 3-day trip to Vegas (we can call this my starting work bonus vacation)
- I’m going to be working in the AdSense group (that’s where Google supplies ads for third-party sites and both Google and the publisher site make money from the clicks)
- I don’t really yet know what I’m going to be working on, but even if I knew it’s possible I’d have to kill you if I told you
- Orientation wasn’t super-useful because I’ve seen about 60% of it before – the other 40% was actually pretty awesome
- Hanging with people I haven’t seen for 8 months was a lot of fun
- I’m going to be working mostly in C++ so I spent a bunch of time in the past week cramming up on C++
- Google rocks
- This is all