waving android

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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Any pricing plan that is even moderately convenient shows up on the spreadsheets at HQ as being less than a rocket ride to riches, so…

August 7th, 2003

Any pricing plan that is even moderately convenient shows up on the
spreadsheets at HQ as being less than a rocket ride to riches, so they
come up with the two-fisted brainstorm of raising the price, then
slapping a “Now with new inconvenience!” sticker on it.

There’s something about the phrase “two-fisted brainstorm”
that just tickles me. Sounds like a jwzism. (From the Clay Shirky mailing list.)

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