Blog: August 2008 Archives
- Fame. The PR department has a field day with the SuperStar winners. Which scares me, considering that I'll be famous for whatever acceptance speech I fumble. I missed the public speaking classes in college.
- Fortune. No idea how much of a fortune, but any fortune is good fortune when it comes to bonuses.
- Food. Gala awards dinner and stuff. With the other winners, and the execs, including Jerry and Filo. In a monkey suit, as this is a "semi formal" affaire. My Sunday best looks awful lot like my Monday best, which is usually shorts and a polo. Doh.
- Bragging rights on the resume. Okay, this doesn't suck. This award is given to approximately a dozen or so individuals, plus one team, a year. Our head count is at approximately 15,000 people.
- Fancy leather notebook cover embossed with the "super star" logo, and a Yahoo! branded pen inside.
- Surprise party. At what you thought was a last minute ops announcement. The kind of surprise that puts your mug shot up as the first slide on the powerpoint deck. My rough oratory skills were noted when I responded to seeing that. Those of you who were there.. thank you.. Even the conspirators.
I'm in Vegas for a conference this week. Since the hotel's wired ports were borked, I looked to see what I could find on wireless.
Two of the SSID's advertised (with good signal, mind you) are advertisements. Connect to them, and you get an IP address. Browse _anywhere_ and you get (instead of your usual hotel wireless ToS/AUP and pricing page), a page advertising the local specials. The kind of specials where for $250 they'll come pick you up, and take you the "Steak House And Gentlemen's Club". Or various "premium adult web sites".
Gotta give'm points for ingenuity.
Oh, the other fun thing to see: Walking lit-up billboards, with screens mounted on people's backs. With screens on top of those screens, rising above the crowd, so you can seem the clearly, even at night, above the crowds.
