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*Note: I took too many photos today to post here, but they all can be found in a separate album on the Photo Albums page of this blog. (The titles are links to the actual albums since the slideshow only works with Flash).
Today was my first NYC Pride Parade, but the third parade that I've been in. Since the first 2 were in my hometown, needless to say the NYC one blew the others away.
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The usual Googler crowd is chatting and getting coffee around 11 am in 5BB. I open the door and step into the cafe and, on cue, Ozzy yells, "ALL ABOARD!! HAHAHAHAHAHA" as "Crazy Train" starts playing on the speakers. I march up to the smoothie counter and order a crazy-looking pride smoothie of 5 different colors and leave to start another code-filled day-- highlight of the day. (The smoothie was actually not that great since it was a bit too chewy. I couldn't even really drink it through the straw after letting it melt and bit and mixing it up.)
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Today I finally got my code working (minus one extra feature I'm supposed to add) so I'm pretty stoked about that. I won't describe all the tedious and technical steps I had to go through for each test run and code tweak (one run alone takes 5-10 minutes due to cluster latency/scheduling/file transfer), but after many tries it finally works. I'm still not done with my project though.
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Another day, another bug. Rather than get into the nitty gritty details, I'll just say the client code I'm trying to implement in C++ doesn't exist even as a basic template example anywhere in the entire current codebase. The only client code that ever existed that uses almost exactly what I'm using was deleted long ago and even that wasn't quite enough to help me figure out what I was supposed to do. After figuratively smashing my head into a brick wall for the entire day, I ended up getting the full client code to at least build which is better than nothing (no, not with broken parts commented out, that's cheating).
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Today I woke up earlier than normal to meet up with a couple friends from back home to tour Google. It was quite the speed tour as the office is too huge to thoroughly explore and experience in a single day. Seeing as it's the weekend, there was only the food in the dozens of micro-kitchens we passed by.