Saturday, July 8, 2006
Friday Afternoon Focus Group
Another exciting Friday afternoon yesterday July7. It was my last day of training where I work (before I go on a business trip this weekend and do more training in Chicago) and I had planned on leaving early and having some fun. To preface this fun: earlier this week I was with my friend Alex hanging out in Palo Alto with his girlfriend who is running a lecrosse camp, we actually spent the night in the Stanford dorms and went to this pool party... I bought a bike, we even saw Superman (it was a big weekend), the point is, while we were out in Palo Alto I ran into this lady who was looking for participants in a focus group on video games. Well, I love the gaming industry so I signed up.
It just so happens that the company running the focus group was Lucas Arts! Crazy... I love Lucas Arts but lets be honest, most of their games suck, can you say say Star Wars Galaxies? Yeah, not good, but actually that project was run by Sony. Well, I can't say much about the focus group because I did sign a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA), but what I can say is; the food was good.
So I had left work, headed out to the focus group (which was like an hour and a half away from my work) and on the way I passed some really cool sites. Motorola has a huge office complex right off the highway near where I was and I also passed Yahoo headquarters... These are some amazing companies and the buildings are very impressive. All of Yahoo's buildings match and they are on both sides of the street! p.s. Yahoo and Ebay have teamed up along with PayPal and Skype... I have friends up here in NorCal that work at all of these companies and it's pretty cool!
So the other really neat part about Sunnyvale (which is the town where all of this craziness is going down) is that it is right next to Moffett Field, which is now owned by Lockheed Martin (originally built by Goodyear... the goodyear blimp???). This so called "field" is huge and it contains two gigantic hangers, another rounded hanger for blimps, and an enormous wind tunnel. I tried to get in but the security guard told me it was all closed and honestly, you don't want to mess around with guys who build missiles and rockets all day :)
Old School Pic of Blimp Hanger
Sucktastic Wind Tunnel
posted by Court @ 3:30 PM
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