Google rides, hoodies, and hope!
One of the things around Mountain View that pulls me into its' irresistible vortex are the 'Google Bikes'. Like Amsterdam, Google has a network of what I like to term 'shareware' bicycles on its' campus.
I always notice the bikes being used by the everyday folk, especially on castro street, sometimes even *gasp!* locked to a fence near the CalTrain station, and i've always wondered how the everyday mortals acquire these bikes...
I think I saw the answer yesterday...
Black Market Google Bike Pile!!! Rad in one way, but overwhelmingly frightening in another...'specially when you get glared down by three big guys in an unmarked truck... I definitely hightailed it from said parking lot. Also, most of the bikes looked kinda mangled, so it could have been Google Bike Rx for all I know...except for it wasn't anywhere near the campus, and it's more fun to imagine I unearthed a clandestine something or other....
On a totally different note, for all my talk of disliking of consumer goods and what-not, I do have a not-so-secret penchant for hoodies...zip-hoodies specifically, because they comprise most of my wardrobe and i'm always cold. While in SF the other day, I was trying to find another of my old hoodies which had 'disappeared' a few years back, and was, arguably, my favorite;
The original Frisco Choppers rad graphic....
Alas, it was not to be. First, they changed their name to 'California Choppers' and second, they changed their design...i'm bummed on both accounts...
As always, lets end on the good foot...can I just say...hell YEAH!!
