Friday began with some word processing
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where one stupid mistake meant that I had to recreate the story of the previous pictures I took. I had breakfast with Sharon Long
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who comes closest to being my counterpart at Stanford and then headed off to Google
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where the buildings were a little surreal
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on the former SGI campus and the signage
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led me to the lobby
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where I was met and met Mike Boddicker '00
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on the way to meet with Eric Schmidt
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shown here with his assistant who came with him from Novell (and Sun) until we met Pam Shore
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who has also been with Eric along the way. After seeing this spiffy demo
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of where queries come from, we discussed the company, the University, children, etc. until it was time for me to make my way to the Avis
place
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and return my car to this woman
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who thanked me for taking her picture. On the other side, I took a shuttle ride that necessitated having some wine, so I was offered a choice of the house white
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or the house red
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along with some elegant nuts
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as Sylvia
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and Dan
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sat to visit with me.
We went upstairs for dinner where I had salad
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pasta
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and vegetables
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as Sylvia ate chicken
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and Dan had the rib eye steak.
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I sprung for the tiramisu
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at dessert and then captured Dan
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and tried
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with the occasional successful picture
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and others less so
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and a good one
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and some bad ones
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before a better one
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to capture Sylvia who seemed to look better
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next to David, our waiter. Gentle viewer, you are invited to offer your opinion about which was the best of the pictures.