http://urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=goo+girl (via Valleywag)
Errr...
http://valleywag.com/assets/resources/2008/02/googirlscan.jpg
She looks different in this pic. Different hair style maybe?
http://valleywag.com/361601 |
She looks like Eric Schmidt, kinda. |
> She looks different in this pic. Different hair style maybe?
Might be lighting, make-up, perhaps even Photoshop... |
What Photoshop? MM looks like any pretty young woman, never mind one at the top of tech Ziggurat, is supposed to look when posing for a demurre publicity shot in a rag (women, Philipp, have long cracked the art of amplifying their beauty without resort to any digital FX whatsoever!!!). Anyway, here are the inexplicably missing key pics and link:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/439574516_277b4a5aff_m.jpg
[ ex http://m.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=439574516]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxemburgerli
"[...] Also on offer are dozens of Mayers favorite Sprungli Luxemburgerli (bite-size macaroons), which she brought back from Zurich, where she was on business a few days earlier. She even sent invitees a Wikipedia link to information about the treat. [...]"
http://www.sanfranmag.com/print/node/6516
Dozens! Yikes. Imagine the cost alone! ;-)) |
And when are these "fairy tale" publicity stunts going to end? |
Marissa was not Google's first woman developer. If I recall correctly, that distinction goes to Lori Park, who was one of the first 10 hires, perhaps number 8, coming to Google from Juno Online. As to Marissa being employee number 20, that seems about right.
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Jay, do you know how one can contact Lori? |
Is it this Lori Park?
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~loripark/
Found through Google, of course. |
Yeah, that should be her page. I found her email here: http://anitaborg.org/protected/faq , look for her name.
<< Lori is an expert on the Google search engine. >> |
