Pippin

Pippin 1 year ago friendica

I went to my main client's xmas do today. Nice people, and quite a nice restaurant this year. But if they wanted me not to be distracted, why'd they put a rack cabinet at the end of the table! 😝

A small black rack cabinet with a glass front with several bright blue LEDs shining out of it, wedged between a cabinet and a chair by a radiator. I think it probably had the sound system in it that was playing xmas music slightly too loud for comfortable conversation the whole time we were there.

Pippin 1 year ago friendica

On the way home: The Tower of London at night.

The Tower of London and Tower Bridge at night

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Pippin 1 year ago friendica

I caught a bus from the bus stop just outside Wimbledon Bridge House. Every time I go to that bus stop I'm reminded of the old days of Domark and Eidos and so on, and also there was Ian Jackson, and all that '80s stuff.

I wonder if people living in Silicon Valley get that kinda of feeling all the time, as there are just so many tech company HQs there.

The words "WIMBLEDON BRIDGE HOUSE" in shiny on the side of Wimbledon Bridge House, an office building in Wimbledon. Inside the window, they have their xmas tree up.

LeoBurr 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

“There’s Google, where Atari used to be. There’s Google, where Weird Stuff used to be. There’s Google, where a promising startup I worked at that was bought by Google and dismantled a year later used to be…”

Pippin 1 year ago friendica

@LeoBurr :leoburr: 😕

@LeoBurr

Kootenay 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

While I don’t live there any more, it would be a case of “I remember when this was SGI’s campus, not Google”, or “That was Sun Microsystems, and now it’s Facebook/Meta”. :P