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2013-06-09 00:08:21 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)

Really hoping for veal wrapped in a pancake.

2013-06-08 00:43:59 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 48 +1s)

At Gorman Farms in Cincinnati with my dad!

Click in for the full experience.

#photosphere

2013-06-05 17:26:45 (4 comments, 6 reshares, 56 +1s)

It's like when I tell people, "Come over to my desk and I'll show you how to get 200 free +Fitbit points."

2013-05-30 05:09:03 (6 comments, 18 reshares, 19 +1s)

Kept putting off watching this during work time because I thought I might cry. Now home, I am crying! So sweet.

2013-05-29 06:10:09 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Worlds colliding...

Trying to determine what kind of soprano I am (you know, coloratura, soubrette, etc), and saw this

Voice type
Not to be confused with voice typing

Interpreting "voice typing" to be some process of determining what voice type a singer is, I clicked through.

Oh. Duh. Voice typing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_type
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_typing

Anyway, if you have some flowery language to describe my voice for the summary section of a vocal resume, go for it.
( Mein Herr Marquis - Google Talent Show 2012 )

2013-05-23 22:50:13 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 69 +1s)

Through the looking glass: The Golden Gate

2013-05-20 03:03:25 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 41 +1s)

#AutoAwesome  skeeball!

2013-05-16 20:46:16 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 37 +1s)

Making of "Om nom nom".  Now that +Josh Haftel is famous from his debut appearance at the I/O keynote, here's it being captured by +Vincent Mo.

2013-05-16 00:48:48 (5 comments, 6 reshares, 52 +1s)

Moments in Motion #AutoAwesome  

As part of our testing of the newly announced Auto Awesome for +Google+ Photos, a bunch of us have been creating a fleet of Motion photos. I created this one of the Bay Bridge the other week with +Joe Azure. As you can see, there is something so special about bringing a touch of motion to a beautiful scene.

Now it's your turn to share your favorite #AutoAwesome  as we begin rolling out the new Google+!

2013-05-15 18:20:04 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Well this is amazing.

2013-05-15 16:31:19 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 33 +1s)

I know I/O is exciting and all, but I'm pretty pleased I got to spend my morning teaching music. I got cards! And roses?!

2013-05-14 18:47:31 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

About 14 years ago, I got a bad cold, and my voice became hoarse.  At the time I didn’t think much about it.  But my voice never fully recovered.  So I went to a doctor and was diagnosed with left vocal cord paralysis.  This is a nerve problem that causes your left vocal cord to not move properly.  Despite extensive examination, the doctors never identified a cause — though there was speculation of virus-based damage from my cold.  It is quite common in cases like these that a definitive cause is not found.

While this condition never really affected me — other than having a slightly weaker voice than normal which some people think sounded a little funny — it naturally raised questions in my mind about my second vocal cord.  But I was told that sequential paralysis of one vocal cord following another is extremely rare.  

Fast forward to last summer, when the same patternrepeated itself... more »

2013-05-30 03:54:55 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 27 +1s)

Neat IRL Doodle for Take Your Parents to Work Day! Really.

+Life at Google

2013-05-08 17:39:06 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Interested to see what I’ve been working on lately? Check out my new project http://goodctzn.com and follow +GoodCTZN.  I'll be posting updates on cool city projects being made around SF -- feedback welcome!

2013-05-03 19:25:08 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 30 +1s)

Kraft Mac & Cheese styles itself "the cheesiest", but I'm pretty sure this Mac & Cheese at Google today takes the proverbial cake.

+Life at Google 

2013-04-28 02:45:49 (1 comments, 6 reshares, 8 +1s)

Neat bunch of maps:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157626354149574/

More info:
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-segregated-cities-census-maps-2013-4?op=1

/via +Thunder Parley 

2013-04-26 17:55:58 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 30 +1s)

Googler Spotlight: Irene Chung

Irene is a Software Engineer in our Mountain View office. We spoke with her about the various products that she’s worked on in her career, her current role on the +Google+ team and why it’s important to “learn as if you were to live forever.”

What were you doing prior to Google and what made you decide to apply?
Before Google, I was a software engineer by day and an aspiring animator by night. I was working in tech coding middleware for embedded systems, but I wanted to be a part of creating something bigger and more visual. I loved the storytelling genius of creative companies like Pixar and the wonder each of their projects created. Just as I completed my character animation degree and was ready to change careers, Google gave me a call and convinced me that tech could be a brilliant medium for positively impacting theworld.more »

2013-04-19 01:41:05 (47 comments, 1 reshares, 67 +1s)

You know what I don't read anymore? Books that are printed out on paper. Enjoy, Mountain View.

2013-04-05 18:06:49 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 32 +1s)

My favorite part of this article is that it says, completely seriously:

it definitely also takes influence from the fact that there’s a longstanding rumor on Google campus that Brin is actually Batman.

So delighted to work at a company where this kind of rumor is actually a thing.

2013-04-04 22:49:57 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

Teachers and students: applications for Google’s Computer Science Summer Institute are open for just a few more days.

If you’ll be a freshman in college next year and want to spend three amazing weeks at Google this summer learning computer science, working with Google engineers, and building your own web app, be sure to apply before April 7th!

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/proscho/programs/uscanada/cssi/application/

2013-04-03 16:52:50 (15 comments, 7 reshares, 69 +1s)

Hey +Abe Rahey, have you seen the new transformers trailer?

/via http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/of-the-greatest-puns-of-all-time

2013-04-03 04:48:18 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)

Square & +Box merging to become Polyhedron
(From yesterday :))

Around this time customers began telling us, “I want to be able to pay for things and share files. Why are these separate activities?” After hearing this almost multiple times, we realized we had to fit the pieces together.

http://polyhedroninc.tumblr.com/

2013-04-02 22:38:33 (11 comments, 22 reshares, 83 +1s)

:D

2013-04-01 19:32:14 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 28 +1s)

So, is the Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile really a smile? What's everyone feeling at the birth of Venus? What's on the farmer's wife's mind in American Gothic?

Finally, these questions can be answered with the new "Add emotion" button.

#emotipics  

2013-04-01 16:08:17 (14 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Lose a sock in the laundry room at work? Find it on the bulletin board!

2013-04-01 03:15:16 (3 comments, 10 reshares, 29 +1s)

This day is going be awesome... and Google teams are getting pretty good at video... so I started a YouTube playlist :-)

Google April Fools Videos - 2013: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw6uLd9f_-G40_imNr0x9R7Lyqsg6-6HU via @youtube

2013-03-28 18:14:58 (27 comments, 3 reshares, 69 +1s)

#PhotoSphere  of Lake Tahoe from this weekend, looking over Emerald Bay. Really impressed with how well this turned out. Check it out full screen!

2013-03-26 16:46:00 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Great visual from +The New York Times.

2013-03-17 03:37:28 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 52 +1s)

Dammit Google Now. This is not what a girl wants to hear on Saturday night in San Francisco.

2013-03-14 15:39:25 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Interesting theory. 

2013-03-07 05:38:52 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Jaime Casap was tagged in Kimberly Johnson's album.

2013-03-07 05:28:27 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 24 +1s)

In the spirit of the epic release notes +Tony Stubblebine packages up with every new update to Lift, I thought I'd jot down some personal notes that capture my early design thinking that lead to the new #coverphoto and some of the profile enhancements that we launched today. Although the thinking and design evolved and was improved over time and iteration, I thought it worth considering where we started from. 

So, take a step back and consider the larger picture (yep, keep going… wider — wider still!). Like similar social apps, +Google+ caters to a diverse constituency. Its strength and dexterity as a platform, however, comes from the fact that it serves publishers looking to broadcast widely — as well as those who speak to their audiences more selectively. And as Google's "social spine", it connects people across contexts through content, activities (i.e. with thelaunch o... more »

2013-03-06 21:22:12 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 35 +1s)

Charging station from +AT&T at +SXSWedu - leave your phone and charger, take the key, do your thing, come back whenever. Neat, huh?

2013-03-06 21:21:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Added photos to SXSWEdu Google Lounge.

2013-03-04 23:09:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Added photos to LIVE from SXSWedu--MOOCs, Jobs, and Cost: Where is Higher Ed Going?.

2013-03-04 20:21:53 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 51 +1s)

2013-03-04 06:51:41 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Are you attending SXSWEdu next week in Austin, Texas?

If so please come by room 19a and 19b of the Austin Convention Center and visit us in the Google in Education Lounge. While there you might want to check out one of the short sessions in the teaching theater.

https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0Bw-EnD5fp-7lcWdlVUZxdHFqM1k/edit #sxswedu  

2013-03-03 23:58:05 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 23 +1s)

SJC sure makes it easy to sit around when you're at the gate 2 hours early because security was a breeze. However, having my +Fitbit encouraged me to walk the full length of the airport 4 times. I learned it's 0.75 miles from end to end, and Terminal B (mostly Southwest) is much more fun.

Now, to Austin for +SXSWedu !

2013-03-03 04:50:40 (14 comments, 1 reshares, 70 +1s)

A half cake for my half birthday!

2013-03-02 19:22:06 (4 comments, 5 reshares, 12 +1s)

House slippers! Popping tags! I'm searching [right through that luggage]. And other extremely literal references.

2013-03-02 00:22:14 (11 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Hindsight is 20/20 I suppose. Who would've guessed that cigarettes would be bad for you, Lysol isn't for feminine hygiene, or you shouldn't wrap babies with cellophane?

I'll have a vitamin donut please.

2013-03-01 21:12:27 (10 comments, 17 reshares, 50 +1s)

The mesmerizing cosmic dance of our solar system.

(via +Juliette Melton)

2013-02-28 00:02:13 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 50 +1s)

We called it The Whale.

#MyFirstWheels

2013-02-26 03:54:06 (2 comments, 9 reshares, 27 +1s)

Extraordinary article on the science and marketing of junk food. Must read.

2013-02-22 18:12:03 (26 comments, 15 reshares, 83 +1s)

You had one job!

http://hadonejob.com

/via +Matthew Levine 

2013-02-22 00:17:38 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 30 +1s)

"It's like they used tilt shift on a real tree."

2013-02-22 00:04:34 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 31 +1s)

#photosphere from the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens last weekend!

2013-02-17 19:09:23 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 54 +1s)

This was misrepresented on the menu as "ravioli" (it is, quite distinctly, a single raviolo); however, I'll take it, because there's an entire poached egg inside :)

2013-02-13 06:59:18 (3 comments, 63 reshares, 74 +1s)

Wow! Awesome orchestral arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody from composer/conductor +Nicholas Hersh - and only 15 minutes of rehearsal, I hear. Keep 'em coming, Nick :)

2013-02-07 01:31:03 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 19 +1s)

This is an awesome story!
https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/459f46fdcbb8

More at the beautiful new Medium:
https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me

Great work, +Tina Chen and team!