Defenestrating Thoughts from the Bivouac

The Google office in Zurich was really, really nice. It’s hard to describe everything with words, so here’s a video:

(Amazingly, that was my first time embedding a YouTube video. Hopefully it worked.)

The video is pretty accurate, nothing is embellished with clever camera work or editing.

There is one thing that was even better than everything in the video; even better than the slide, kitchen, game room, and fire pole: the fresh juice machine.

In the cafeteria, they have a machine that takes ripe blood oranges and makes freshly squeezed juice for you. The machine casing is see-through, so you press the nozzle and see oranges fall from a hopper, get split in two, squeezed, and then juice fills your cup.

It was the best juice I’ve ever had; I think each glass took 5 oranges to make. I drank around 4 glasses a day; even when my stomach was sick from all the orange juice, I had to go back and get more. :-)

It’s the coolest machine ever.

And the micro-kitchens: bars and bars of Swiss chocolate, Swiss cocoa, mounds of cheeses, and loaves of freshly baked bread. Even when I wasn’t hungry, I’d make myself a sandwich. I mean, how often in life are you so close to pounds and pounds of Gruyere?

The micro-kitchens also had mayo and mustard. And even though it was in tubes like toothpaste (um, weird!), it was quite tasty.

I’m very tempted to transfer there, but I think I’d end up being really, really fat (or, more accurately, fatter). :-)