Curt
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"THE MOTHERSHIP"
Saw this pop up on Yahoo! just now. Evidently Steve Jobs popped up at a Cupertino City Council meeting this tuesday and announced a massive new Headquarters. They've been buying up land (including from HP who went to Mountain View) for the past 5 years.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_local...new-hi-tech-apple-headquarters?bouchon=807,ca
Heres the video: (really amazing)
See the facility about 4:45 into the video.
I was taking some notes/observations and putting them on my Facebook as I watched it. Here's what I thought:
This is blowing my mind... a new campus that houses all 12,000 of apple's Bay Area employees... Man I'd kill to work here...
They're building a self sufficient energy "center" that will run off natural gas etc, and using it as the primary source of energy... as a BACKUP they can use the citie's power grid...wow.
They're building an enormous auditorium so they wont have to come to the moscone center for WWDC and other events in San Francisco for the big Speeches etc...
He seems rather subdued... kind of sad.. and like he's sneaking something in there... he knows he's wowing them.. But Apple ALWAYS has something up their sleeves...
I suspect he's sad because he knows he won't live to see it completed... But that's speculation...
Construction to begin in 2012. Completion/move in in 2015.
They're projecting 3,500 new jobs (40%+) .... He also proclaims to make the employees very "Affluent." I like the sound of that very much...
They also plan to plant a massive amounts of trees and other plants to make the campus 80% scenery.
It kind of resembles the pentagon with the enormous courtyard in the middle. But instead it's a circle a kind of new "infinite loop" Safety was brought up, and I think they would probably work very hard to make it as safe/self sufficient as the pentagon if not more...
Because it's a loop like that, you literally could walk around for infinity... I imagine it'd be kind of like the loop in 2001 but on the ground...]
Steve says Smoking is not allowed, and that both of his parents died of lung cancer, so he is sensitive to air quality...
He also said he would like to see Kaiser kicked out.. ha ha.. wow.
One of the councilmen begged for a Apple store in cupertino, and even busted out his iPad 2...
Steve threatens to go to Mountain View, if they were unable to build in here, and take the largest tax payer in cupertino away... damn Steve.. hard ball. It's pretty aggressive, you can really see what he must be like in private negotiations... Brutal...
The council is awestruck.
A councilman, a former HP employee said "Spectacular, would be an understatement."
Well wow... that was amazing... It clearly was history in the making..
Saw this pop up on Yahoo! just now. Evidently Steve Jobs popped up at a Cupertino City Council meeting this tuesday and announced a massive new Headquarters. They've been buying up land (including from HP who went to Mountain View) for the past 5 years.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_local...new-hi-tech-apple-headquarters?bouchon=807,ca
Heres the video: (really amazing)
I was taking some notes/observations and putting them on my Facebook as I watched it. Here's what I thought:
This is blowing my mind... a new campus that houses all 12,000 of apple's Bay Area employees... Man I'd kill to work here...
They're building a self sufficient energy "center" that will run off natural gas etc, and using it as the primary source of energy... as a BACKUP they can use the citie's power grid...wow.
They're building an enormous auditorium so they wont have to come to the moscone center for WWDC and other events in San Francisco for the big Speeches etc...
He seems rather subdued... kind of sad.. and like he's sneaking something in there... he knows he's wowing them.. But Apple ALWAYS has something up their sleeves...
I suspect he's sad because he knows he won't live to see it completed... But that's speculation...
Construction to begin in 2012. Completion/move in in 2015.
They're projecting 3,500 new jobs (40%+) .... He also proclaims to make the employees very "Affluent." I like the sound of that very much...
They also plan to plant a massive amounts of trees and other plants to make the campus 80% scenery.
It kind of resembles the pentagon with the enormous courtyard in the middle. But instead it's a circle a kind of new "infinite loop" Safety was brought up, and I think they would probably work very hard to make it as safe/self sufficient as the pentagon if not more...
Because it's a loop like that, you literally could walk around for infinity... I imagine it'd be kind of like the loop in 2001 but on the ground...]
Steve says Smoking is not allowed, and that both of his parents died of lung cancer, so he is sensitive to air quality...
He also said he would like to see Kaiser kicked out.. ha ha.. wow.
One of the councilmen begged for a Apple store in cupertino, and even busted out his iPad 2...
Steve threatens to go to Mountain View, if they were unable to build in here, and take the largest tax payer in cupertino away... damn Steve.. hard ball. It's pretty aggressive, you can really see what he must be like in private negotiations... Brutal...
The council is awestruck.
A councilman, a former HP employee said "Spectacular, would be an understatement."
Well wow... that was amazing... It clearly was history in the making..
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