A conversation I had recently with someone at an event. The name below has been changed for privacy :-)
Now before I go any further, you are probably thinking: "he's probably of another nationality", "maybe he is too young", "he plays WOW all day long.", etc.
I: "So you must be looking forward to the '08 election given that you work at XYZ?"
Bob: "Oh... No, I don't really follow politics."
I: "Oh OK, yeah, I'm not that into politics either..."
(Even though I've been trying to follow some of it, but didn't want to get too much into it with this guy)
Bob: "So our governor, Arnold, he is a Republican right?"
I: "Yeah, he is a Republican."
Bob: "And Bush, the president, he is Republican?"
I: (Trying to hold a straight face) "Yeah...."
But from what I know of him in the short period, this individual is in high-tech, went to a reputable university, not a FOB, he was even born in the Valley!
I mean, I don't like to judge people, and Jean (my wife) and I really aren't into politics much either. But seriously?!
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But I bet this person knows Robert Scoble and what he ate for breakfast.
I agree that Valley folks are a bit caught up in their own little world, so much that we sometimes forget that there's this big wide world outside of Palo Alto.
Palo Alto? where's that??? Is that close to Cupertino?
The first person I met here blanked when I told her my friend and I were from London. She hadn't the foggiest where London were. Turns out she's a ER doctor at UCSF hospital.
Hey Hasan,
Maybe she should talk to Miss Teen South Carolina or something and they can go look at maps.
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