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