November 14, 2011
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x factor
So I’ve mentioned that I started working on experimental projects at work, and today, a bunch of articles went out about that team: New York Times, cnet, Mashable (which features a picture of Wolverine, for some reason), and Engadget have jumped on the news bandwagon so far.
It’s kind of cool seeing it out there, and rather hilarious reading what journalists write when they have next to no information. They seem to be able to write impressively long articles about a lab “where robots run free” (as opposed to the rest of the company, where they are imprisoned and enslaved), and they aren’t sure whether it exists, how many people work in it, where it’s located (the Engadget article featured a picture of the sign that sits outside the Legal building, making it appear to be some important lair of secret engineering), and what it’s working on. As far as I can tell, they just made products up (space elevators!), since the only one that people know exists is the self-driving car. The articles cite each other and refer to an anonymous source who doesn’t appear to actually know anything about the group at all.
Coincidentally, we had a team meeting today, in which we all laughed about our alleged robot minions and space elevators, watched demos and presos about all of the things we are actually doing (some of which are insanely cool, and some of which are just insane), and talked about how cool it is to be on the team, and how frustrating it is to not be able to talk to anyone about what it is that we actually do. There’s a good chance that I may start working on these projects 100% of the time, instead of 50%, in which case my working life will become that much more awesome (but also that much more secretive).
