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Today wasn't very eventful adventurewise since I didn't really explore more of the campus. I did try Indian food for the first time at a special cafe in Google -- the only one I know of in which you need to make reservations. Here we ate lamb and and rice and other interesting food which I can neither remember the names of nor pronounce them even if I did. This was all served family-style, which I learned is where they bring out everything on the menu in large dishes so you can serve yourself. Unfortunately we made our reservations for a little late in the day for lunch so we didn't get to eat much lamb before they ran out.
I was lame today and didn't take any pictures so here's what the cafe looks like taken from a Google image search
Later part of my team that's currently in Mountain View and I went to South San Francisco for dinner at the end of the day. We made reservations at a place called Blue Plate. They had an interesting range of food from rabbit to fried chicken. We were there for 2 hours and ate a lot. Supposedly Nooglers get what's called the Google 15 just from eating so much when they start working here. I'm hoping it's true in my case considering how much weight I unintentionally lost last semester from stress and poor diet habits including but not limited to forgetting to eat.
The sign in the hills I saw from the highway as we drove into the city
We got back pretty late considering San Francisco is about 40 minutes away when traffic isn't bad. Even with a 6-lane highway it gets pretty congested around 6:30. Watching the cars go by and looking at parked cars around the campus I notice a large amount of Nissan Leafs, Teslas, and sports cars. I even saw a Google self-driving car twice during what short time I've been here so far. And no, they're not the weird minicars that look like this:
They actually look like this:
As for project progress, I finally submitted my first changelist today and it was considered a large one by the system as I added a few hundred lines of code to support new functionality across several files. The design doc still hasn't been approved but I went ahead and added all the code anyway, tested it reasonably thoroughly, and sent it off for approval nevertheless. I'll be excited once it's approved because then I'll actually have made a meaningful contribution to the large Google repository of code.