little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

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(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.

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

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

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

is lake tahoe far from sunnyvale?

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

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?

CJ Olson’s Cherries just sound dirty.

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

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?

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

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

only slightly more exciting than driving down a stretch of I-10 in Arizona.
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they’ve been on Martha Stewart and stuff.

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

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

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