Why is it that whenever someone is trying to show just how laid-back the atmosphere in the Googleplex is, that they emphasize on these stupid lava lamps? Since when is the lava lamp the one and only beacon of laid-backness? What is so damn laid-back about a bottle-shaped container filled with wax and oil? Come on!
Check out this photo in a TIME pictorial from inside the Googleplex. The caption reads:
Desktop gizmos and lava lamps express Google’s laid-back ethos.
Hell, even if lava lamp really means laid-back, I can’t for the life of me spot a single lava lamp in that picture! Why are the mentioning that, when it’s not even there? Anyone?
I, um, don’t think that the place shown in the picture from the Googleplex is even in the remotest sense laid-back. And I don’t see a lava lamp in it either.
However, as for the soothing effects of the lava lamp, I own one (an orange Mathmos Astro), and I love it and it’s brilliant, and you wouldn’t believe just what it does to the atmosphere of a room.
So here’s an idea for a birthday present for you, Richie!!
Great, I knew it’d come down to someone calling me “Richie”.