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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Archive for September 6th, 2005

LEGO bricks and pedants

September 6th, 2005

Techdirt notes that a visit to legos.com nets you a lecture on the proper use of the LEGO® trademark:

The word LEGO® is a brand name, and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our products as “LEGO bricks or toys” and not “LEGOS.” By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud, and that stands for quality the world over.

Thank you!

The funny thing about this is that I received an almost identical admonishment in a response to a letter I wrote to INTERLEGO AG when I was 8 or 9 years old (so, almost twenty years ago). Apparently this is just a longstanding pet peeve of theirs, and they figure you’re never too young to learn about trademark dilution.    : (

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Visting Tulane students

September 6th, 2005

There were a couple of girls from Tulane on the campus shuttle today, making their way to the Allen Ctr. so they could enroll in the Rice Emergency Program (a courtesy extended to Houston-based Tulane students). I overheard one of them, a freshman, saying she didn’t know anyone in her year who would be returning to Tulane in the spring. I couldn’t help imagining how weird it would be for a school to be missing an entire matriculating class—a gaping hole in the undergraduate population.

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