DEF ‘EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE’ TOUR 2012: FREE PANCAKES

[defrog]

Reporting live from Santa Clara, California.

No, really.

I am in the courtyard suite of a hotel across the street from Yahoo! Headquarters (also across the street: the Great America theme park and an IHOP), and I am here in the name of telephones journalism.


Here’s how that’s gone so far:

1. I was hit up for secondary screening before I even got on the plane. They made me take off my shoes. 

2. I had the following exchange with the ICE officer who let me back into the country:

Him: “You know, you look like that guy from Mythbusters.”

Me: “Yeah, I get that a lot.”

3. I had lunch at the IHOP. Downside: the food took 45 minutes to arrive (even though the restaurant wasn’t all that busy). Upside: the waitress felt bad enough about it to comp the bill. Also, DAMN good strawberry/banana pancakes.

So we’re off to a rollicking start here in Santa Clara, I can tell you. Which is good because there’s bugger all to do here unless you have a car. Which I don’t.

And now, the jet lag and deadlines. To say nothing of this monster strip-mall burrito I must now deal with.

On the house,

This is dF