Tokyo

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned
to a dead channel.

Capsule Hotel

A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the
corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in
his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless
void... The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the
Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cow-
boy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the
dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands
clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fin-
gers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there.

Tokyo life

[jobs] Google recon

Today I scoped out the GooglePlex in advance of my interview there* this coming Tuesday, so that I'll be able to find the building and all that.

First impressions: it's way smaller than I expected! I expected, somehow, a giant complex, maybe even connected by hamster tubes literally crawling with nerds and engineers. The main thing, it turns out, is just four medium-sized buildings, which you can circumnavigate on foot in ten minutes.

Of course there are many other buildings in the surrounding area. And it seems suspicious that the main campus buildings are numbered 43, 44, ...

Amazing how much talent and know-how and so many famous computer science people are concentrated in these buildings.

[*] My interview is not actually at the main GooglePlex but half of it will be across the street at a complex used by Google[x], and the other half will be in Alameda CA.