So, I know Snow Patrol is old news, but they’re one of those bands whose music I have a good amount of (30 songs on iTunes and on my iPod), but who I never really recognize as being a great band. Until a song comes on that I really like and I find myself singing [...]

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Eric & Laura, Lincoln Park, Chicago

Laura, Lincoln Park, Chicago

Eric, Lincoln Park, Chicago
My coworker Eric is moving to New York and last night was his going away party. Eric grew up in Boston and he and Laura moved to Chicago a couple years ago when Eric started working at FeedBurner. As you can see he loves [...]

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Singha, River North, Chicago
At FeedBurner we used to order Singha whenever there were meetings in the office or there was a special occasion, but I’d never been inside the restaurant until we moved to Google. Now our office is so close we can see Singha out the window. You can’t really tell from these photos, [...]

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The other day at lunch some of my coworkers were talking about the crappy jobs they’ve had in the past when they were young. Like in high school and college. Jobs in food service or retail or whatever. I realized that my first job was working for a financial services company just before my senior [...]

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Paul

Rachelle

Eric, Steve, Matt

Brent, Ed, Justin
We all became Google employees as of June 1, but it wasn’t until last week that we finally got our Noogler (new Googler) hats. We also were surprised with a cake, champagne, beer, cheese and big pretzels with cinnamon or mustard.
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