{"id":452,"date":"2012-02-11T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/02\/11\/yes-mom-that-is-me\/"},"modified":"2012-02-11T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T04:24:00","slug":"yes-mom-that-is-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/02\/11\/yes-mom-that-is-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Mom, That IS Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herewith, an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/books?id=zdlZ2rrcZWEC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;pg=PA352#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\"><i>I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59<\/i><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/doug-edwards\">Douglas Edwards<\/a>, page 354:<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_2hpblSA_LY\/Tzc0Id49-NI\/AAAAAAABWK8\/TBhjs2D1lL8\/s1600\/59_354.png\" style=\"margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"66\" width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_2hpblSA_LY\/Tzc0Id49-NI\/AAAAAAABWK8\/TBhjs2D1lL8\/s320\/59_354.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(I&#8217;m pretty sure this is the first time my name has appeared in an actual book from a major publisher.  Top of the world, ma!)<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about that recruiting campaign, including details on several of the puzzles, on <a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/news\/2004-10-13\/google\/\">MathWorld News: Mathematica&#8217;s Google Aptitude<\/a>.  And though I didn&#8217;t come up with the idea for the billboard, I am the guy who calculated the proper ten digits for the domain name (with a Python script, natch) and then leaned on Schwim to get the server deployed in time.  I should also point out that many of the puzzles were contributed by other engineers who knew their math a lot better than I did.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <i>I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky<\/i> (an impulse checkout from my last trip to the public library) was a nice trip down memory lane&#8211;Doug&#8217;s employment at Google overlapped my time there by maybe two years, and I later worked with one of his successors in marketing, Dylan Casey, on <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/can-you-crack-code.html\">another puzzle project<\/a>.  Given my personal connections to the subject matter, I&#8217;m not sure I can give an objective review of the book, but if you&#8217;ve ever wondered what life inside the Googleplex is like, this book will give you a taste.  (Current Googler <a href=\"http:\/\/lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us\/new\/2011\/09\/24\/im-feeling-lucky-anecdotes-and-interviews-about\/\">Larry Hosken<\/a> is also a fan.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herewith, an excerpt from I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards, page 354: (I&#8217;m pretty sure this is the first time my name has appeared in an actual book from a major publisher. Top&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[15,51,17,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievementunlocked","category-books","category-nostalgia","category-puzzles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}