little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

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6 May 2004 @ 1pm

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get your missle souvenirs here

(Pardon the work-related posts. My life has been a string of high-priority work projects recently.)

(The scene: a group of Yahoo! Photos staff is at an awards presentation for a recent promotion that we did. There are maybe 20-30 onlookers.)

Ernie, to the Project Manager: Hmm. Not a lot of people here - hope they didn’t have to travel too far to get their prizes.
Project Manager: Actually, they did. We flew winners from Hawaii, Alabama and Florida here. Some of them have never been to California before.
Ernie: …seriously? The company isn’t sending them on the next plane back, are they?
Project Manager: Naah, I’m sure they’ll have a day to take a look around.

And cue my overactive imagination… now.

Tour guide: Welcome to beautiful Sunnyvale, California, home of the Yahoo! campus!
Winners: Will we have a chance to see San Francisco?
Tour guide: We’re sorry, that’s not in our budget.
Winner:
Tour guide: Here’s some fun trivia for you: did you know that Sunnyvale has the largest ratio of single males in the nation? Now you’re chance, ladies!
Winner: Uhm, we won a Mothers Day contest taking pictures of our kids. We’re all married.
Tour guide: Mmm. Well, as we drive down scene Lawrence Expressway, you’ll see Lockheed Martin on our right, home of destructive missles and weapons systems!
Winner’s adorable 2 year child: Mommy, is Disneyland nearby?
TG: No, kid. Sit the hell down and shut the hell up.

Welcome to the Silicon Valley! There’s nothing to see here, go home.


16 Comments

Posted by
Ken
6 May 2004 @ 1pm

But Sunnyvale is home to the world’s largest canned fruit cocktail! Actually… it’s a painted water tower, but somehow that counts.


Posted by
Raven
6 May 2004 @ 2pm

Ahhh, Silicon Valley… only slightly more exciting than driving down a stretch of I-10 in Arizona.


Posted by
Chester
6 May 2004 @ 6pm

I hope you guys at least gave them the grand tour of Sunnyvale Town Center.


Posted by
rajan
6 May 2004 @ 8pm

is lake tahoe far from sunnyvale?


Posted by
b
7 May 2004 @ 5am

that’s not true, what about ghetto Great America? and only 15 mins from Sunnyvale is Valley Fair! lol =P


Posted by
Brian
7 May 2004 @ 8am

How about showing them CJ Olson’s Cherries…they’ve been on Martha Stewart and stuff. Maybe an a meal at the exotic PF Chang’s next door afterwards?


Posted by
Nala
7 May 2004 @ 12pm

CJ Olson’s Cherries just sound dirty.


Posted by
Donny O
7 May 2004 @ 1pm

…and 40% of Sunnyvale’s population are *foreign born*


Posted by
Shawn
7 May 2004 @ 3pm

You could always go visit the Winchester Mystery House, that should make the kiddies happy! Hey kids! this is what insanity looks like!
I used to think that the 6:1 ratio was a good thing too.. until one considered the *ahem* caliber of said 6 men. Most are, how shall I say, intellectuals?


Posted by
kimmie
10 May 2004 @ 1am

sunnyvale town center is like a ghost town… or was that sarcasm? :P

largest ratio of single males eh? wonder why i haven’t met any of the single ones…


Posted by
jim
16 July 2004 @ 2am

only slightly more exciting than driving down a stretch of I-10 in Arizona.
yes!!!


Posted by
eiaerw
16 July 2004 @ 2am


Posted by
Shaoshi
25 July 2004 @ 2am

they’ve been on Martha Stewart and stuff.


Posted by
Chuguo
29 July 2004 @ 11pm

Maybe an a meal at the exotic PF Chang’s next door afterwards?


Posted by
Time
29 July 2004 @ 11pm

Maybe an a meal at the exotic PF Chang’s next door afterwards?


Posted by
Sbt
2 August 2004 @ 9am

I hope you guys at least gave them the grand tour of Sunnyvale Town Center.