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Tadeusz Szewczyk [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, August 3, 2006
17 years ago7,554 views

Congrats! Anyways look out, don't let them get you for cheap just because you are 16 and they arrange a date with Marissa! Besides there is much more out there than just Google, I know there is, I am twice as old, but now that I know I wish I could be 16 once again to experience it.

Eric Cranston [PersonRank 3]

17 years ago #

Haha Awesome Caleb...and I thought you were just a bored teen.....and ya, I'm still jealous about you getting to go to Google's Campus....And you never even told me about the miniture golf, shesh.

Caleb E [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

:) Well, it was a really fun experience. I got a tour of the campus from Jessica (the one who posted the blog entry). It's a very, very nice campus. There really are beanbags, massage chairs, and lots of free drinks! I got to see the search scroller and the rotating globe that shows search queries as spikes in the lobby.

Next I gave a presentation to the personalized homepage team about the GPH and directory based on a focus group I had at my school. I got to meet all the team members, as well as talk to Mihai Parparita (of http://persistent.info/) via a webcam (he works in the New York office) and a member of the Gmail team, Mike Sego.

I had lunch in the Google cafeteria (it was VERY tasty). I got to shake hands with both Larry and Sergey, as well as Eric Schmidt, and, of course, Marissa Mayer. Then I went to play glow in the dark mini golf with a few of the GPH team members at "Putting Edge".

alek [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Great job Caleb – lets add the picture of you next to the queen of Google – BTW, did you ask her out on a date?!? ;-)

http://lh5.google.com/jessica.ewing/RM-1vbf4ABI/AAAAAAAAADE/zqUCpiIZfis/calebandmarissa.jpg

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Sell the badge on eBay :)
congrats Caleb, and where are your fotos?

Caleb E [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

we weren't allowed to take pictures as part of the NDA. The badge was actually pretty cool, you type in your name and who you're there to meet and sign the NDA (with an electronic pad) and it prints the badge on a Dymo machine.

Wouter Schut [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Very cool!

Caleb, where do you live?

Caleb E [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

just outside cabot, arkansas:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cabot,+AR

Art-One [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Congrats, Caleb!

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Caleb rocks! :-)

congrats ;)

Jake's View [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

It's my dream to go to the Googleplex. Congrats!

CJ Millisock [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Caleb for President! :-) Good job Caleb!

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Well done Caleb! Somehow, I don't expect to get invited to the Googleplex given my track record with them – especially now Matt's referred to it as an "attack" against them!

Niraj Sanghvi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Tony, you never know....hackers sometimes end up getting hired by the companies they were hacking :)

stefan2904 [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

uh, i have overread this post. congratulation, Caleb! :-)

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Hey Caleb, do they use any boimetric access measures ?? did they give a infrared plam scan or retina scan ??

Anyhoot, Con'grats and all the best witht he hacks!!

alek [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Tony – ditto what Niraj said – I personally think Matt gave you a compliment – your stuff is clever – good stuff!

Zoolander [PersonRank 4]

17 years ago #

wow. congrats. it is very nice that you get to shake with several billionaires. they are really cool for what they done, the top 3 at google.

very nice and thanks for sharing.

Caleb E [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

[put at-character here] /pd – nope, just card scans, rfid i think.

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

thanks Caleb : rifd ..then that must be the 13mHz cards

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Is it normal that I see only one guy there ? http://www.google.com/ig/authors (sebs)

on the french version (http://www.google.fr/ig/authors) Caleb & the others (including Garett Rogers) are still online.

Piotr Konieczny [PersonRank 9]

17 years ago #

Caleb: Nice pic!
  
Hopefully, I'll be visiting Googleplex in a couple of weeks as a part of research to my book :-) Can't wait...

PS: Visiting {HP,IBM}plex does not request to sign NDA, but first thing you see is "NO CAMERAS" sign :>

Subrahmanyam Karuturi [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

Congrats. I wish I get a chance to visit Googleplex one day.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

> Is it normal that I see only one guy there ? google.com/ig/authors (sebs)

I see all...

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

and there :
http://www.google.com/ig/authors?hl=fr ?

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Ah, there I see just 1.

Jake's View [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Me too...

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