WHAT? You don't care?? Oh fine, then don't read it..
But for those that do, here goes. After doing my little teacher teaching of Macromedia Flash, this one guy who apparently worked for Cisco was impressed for some reason or another, and invited us to take a tour of the 20+ building lot of Cisco Systems (I only counted about 20, I'm sure there were more). He told us to go to building 13, which was where he worked at, and every building there looked exactly identical, so it took a while to find which one it was exactly.
I was driving at about 5 miles an hour in the parking lot to 1) admire the great architecture of the buildings, and 2) to make sure not to hit one of the dozens and DOZENS of $50,000+ BMW's, Porches's, Mercedes, CORVETTE's, etc..It sure was fancier than the normal student parking lots that I'm used to.
So we finally found building 13, and went in. In front of the building was a NO TAILGATING sign which totally reminded me of Anti-Trust. The receptionist there told us to have a seat and we sat on the damnedest softest chair I ever met. He also gave us these high tech visitor pass sticker thingies which are supossed to turn red after 8 hours--I'll have to check up on it later. On it they had our names and said MUST BE ESCORTED.
Then Charley, our guide tour dude showed us up to his cubicle where there were a bunch of college kids making anywhere from $10-$28 on internships wasting Cisco's money using e-mail and all. I so thought that could've been me there. But actually some of these guys did work pretty hard and were doing some cool things. This one guy there was creating a virtual networking software thing that essentially emulated a system of 30-40 computers connected to a router (or however that works). So instead of paying thousands and thousands for such a big router, the instruction place that teaches the Cisco classes can get a small router just to play with, and use the virtualizing software to take care of the rest.
These other guys were using Flash to create the whole online curriculum, which was just as cool. It was also so very annoying to see on the shelf where they store unused stuff a 21" monitor, an 18" flat panel screen I believe, and a bunch of hubs and those bigass NIC thingies. I asked what they were doing there and they said they were no longer being used so it's going to storage as soon as they find the time
Then we went to another building where downstairs they had a refridgerator with free soda inside of it! Those guys sure know how to live.
So anyway, here are some pictures of these buildings. I wasn't allowed to take any inside So nothing too interesting here..
Pic of building
Pic of another building
Pic of building from far away
Pic of building from even farther away
Pic of building + some random cars
Pic of building with a sign in front
Pic of another building
Pic of another building
Pic of another building
All in all an interesting visit, and perhaps one day I can come back as an employee and drive my own Turbo 911.
They weren't handing out free router samples today though
But for those that do, here goes. After doing my little teacher teaching of Macromedia Flash, this one guy who apparently worked for Cisco was impressed for some reason or another, and invited us to take a tour of the 20+ building lot of Cisco Systems (I only counted about 20, I'm sure there were more). He told us to go to building 13, which was where he worked at, and every building there looked exactly identical, so it took a while to find which one it was exactly.
I was driving at about 5 miles an hour in the parking lot to 1) admire the great architecture of the buildings, and 2) to make sure not to hit one of the dozens and DOZENS of $50,000+ BMW's, Porches's, Mercedes, CORVETTE's, etc..It sure was fancier than the normal student parking lots that I'm used to.
So we finally found building 13, and went in. In front of the building was a NO TAILGATING sign which totally reminded me of Anti-Trust. The receptionist there told us to have a seat and we sat on the damnedest softest chair I ever met. He also gave us these high tech visitor pass sticker thingies which are supossed to turn red after 8 hours--I'll have to check up on it later. On it they had our names and said MUST BE ESCORTED.
Then Charley, our guide tour dude showed us up to his cubicle where there were a bunch of college kids making anywhere from $10-$28 on internships wasting Cisco's money using e-mail and all. I so thought that could've been me there. But actually some of these guys did work pretty hard and were doing some cool things. This one guy there was creating a virtual networking software thing that essentially emulated a system of 30-40 computers connected to a router (or however that works). So instead of paying thousands and thousands for such a big router, the instruction place that teaches the Cisco classes can get a small router just to play with, and use the virtualizing software to take care of the rest.
These other guys were using Flash to create the whole online curriculum, which was just as cool. It was also so very annoying to see on the shelf where they store unused stuff a 21" monitor, an 18" flat panel screen I believe, and a bunch of hubs and those bigass NIC thingies. I asked what they were doing there and they said they were no longer being used so it's going to storage as soon as they find the time
Then we went to another building where downstairs they had a refridgerator with free soda inside of it! Those guys sure know how to live.
So anyway, here are some pictures of these buildings. I wasn't allowed to take any inside So nothing too interesting here..
Pic of building
Pic of another building
Pic of building from far away
Pic of building from even farther away
Pic of building + some random cars
Pic of building with a sign in front
Pic of another building
Pic of another building
Pic of another building
All in all an interesting visit, and perhaps one day I can come back as an employee and drive my own Turbo 911.
They weren't handing out free router samples today though