By Stephanie
Liu, Google Data teamI think we all remember the 8-bit
awesome that was classic Super Mario Brothers. Most of us in Developer Ops have spent many
hours immersed in the pixelated world of question marks, mushrooms, coins, and Koopas. So,
when the cube decorating contest (the theme was 'Games') was announced, the course of action
seemed obvious.
I recruited a few lieutenants and we had some
brainstorming sessions -- complete with design docs sketched out on a whiteboard.
There would be two main areas - the classic Level 1 terrain and
an underwater level. We took on this task with typical Google vigor -- 15 yards of blue cloth,
5 rolls of saran wrap, 10 pieces of posterboard, foam, lots of color printer toner, and a few
afterwork hours/weekends later, here are some of the results.
They say that a good work environment increases productivity.
Where better to seek inspiration than the hardest working plumber ever?
Living the dream.
Stephanie Liu
On behalf of the
Developer Operations team
P.S. In case you were wondering, we came in
2nd to Analytics (their theme was Jumanji). They had a motion sensor box that triggered a
tiger roar when you walked by though. It was pretty cool.
