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Eric Hielscher, Google Intern, Makes It In New York

Billysauce — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:31:54 EDT

I intern for Tao Lin. I'm sexy.

Billysauce

Eric Hielscher, Google Intern, Makes It In New York

Gidiots — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:44:02 EDT

There is no such thing as an ex-Puerto Rican, you idiot!

Although the island is a U.S. colony, Puerto Ricans are American citizens and are entitled to travel back and forth anytime they wish. When they move stateside, they are still Puerto Rican.

Lastly, East Harlem is not part of the Upper East Side so maybe you should move out after all! Privileged google idiots...

Gidiots

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GBrown — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:19:22 EDT

This is the dude who scored the free iphone in exchange for services (http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/cas/366894080.html)

GBrown

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Seeräuber Jenny — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:50:44 EDT

@CherryRide:

Actually, computers are more engaging. Take my friend ELIZA:

You: People don't talk like that.

Eliza: Please go on.

[www-ai.ijs.si]

Seeräuber Jenny

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ch1x0r — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:19:57 EDT

I'm a little bit embarassed by his resume (really, it is quite a stretch to call it a CV if you don't have any research on it)... kid, no one cares that you were a national merit commended scholar in 1998, or for that matter your GRE scores.
I can't believe he's wasting his time going to NYU for grad school instead of just working for Google full-time. That's several hundred thousand dollars in earnings down the tube right there for a degree that at Google will get you the same backend shit work as a BS.

ch1x0r

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Seeräuber Jenny — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:32:14 EDT

@QiQi:

Yes, we know that Europeans and some other American cities call it the "metro." In New York, we call it the "subway." Your friend's failure to pick up on distinctions like that was exactly the point of the post.

Seeräuber Jenny

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Joe_Welcome — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:31:28 EDT

Across 110th Street,
Pimps trying to catch a woman that's weak
Across 110th Street,
Pushers won't let the junkie go free.
Across 110th Street,
Woman trying to catch a trick on the street.
Across 110th Street,
You can find it all in the street.

I got one more thing I'd like to y'all about right now.
Hey brother, there's a better way out.
Snorting that coke, shooting that dope man you're copping out.
Take my advice, it's either live or die.
You've got to be strong, if you want to survive.

The family on the other side of town,
Would catch hell without a ghetto around.
In every city you find the same thing going down,
Harlem is the capital of every ghetto town.

Joe_Welcome

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CherryRide — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:13:13 EDT

Is QiQi a computer program? Seriously, people don't talk like that.

CherryRide

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Flashman — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:04:02 EDT

QiQi = Brad from Bay Ridge

90% sure.Final answer.

Flashman

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number six — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:58:06 EDT

I think I had sex with QiQi once. Back when her name was Nancy and she thought "goth" meant wearing non-ironically-worn ironic hair barettes at twenty six years of age.

It's really just pouring gas on the fire at this point.

number six

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far-far — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:54:08 EDT

Oh my god, Gawker got in the girlfriend of the Google Intern to come in and give a talk?! And she's legitimately excellent, too... this is opening up a whole new world of comment partying for me! Can you get Zach Braff's Mystery Blonde Dingaling to come in also? Or one of Alyssa Shelasky's exes? How about one of the women who *lost* the Miss New Jersey pageant?

far-far

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earlytimezone — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:31:55 EDT

Oops. I totally misread that. Now I feel like I've kicked a puppy. I will stand against the wall wearing a blindfold, awaiting your merciless marksmanship.

earlytimezone

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howwhitemyshirtscanbe — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:57:09 EDT

@peppermintpatty: Me too! Like good interns, they try harder, to compensate for inexperience, and learn fast. And they're adorable.

@Clevertrousers: On the other hand, that would also be massively entertaining.

howwhitemyshirtscanbe

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earlytimezone — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:55:22 EDT

@QiQi: In my experience, emoticons are mostly used by people who either suffer debilitating anger or are twelve. Either way, please don't pose for Cobrasnake.

earlytimezone

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the_woog — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:53:54 EDT

I was wondering why she chose to do MSc in mathematical logic in cognitive science direction. Thank God that mystery is solved.

Someone please make QiQi a) stop talking and 2) change the spelling of her name. I have an aunt QiQi and its Kiki, for fuck's sake. Also please make her stop translating directly from the German.
Enjoying being myself, everyone!

the_woog

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Choire — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:51:44 EDT

@QiQi: I kind of love you.

Choire

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QiQi — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:39:40 EDT

@TedSez:
I just meant internet law is not developed yet. :)

To everyone:
Really interesting. I guess I surely know why I chose to do MSc in mathematical logic in cognitive science direction. People are just amazingly different, no better, no worse, just different.

Enjoy being yourself, everyone!

QiQi

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Clarence Rosario — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:32:57 EDT

@QiQi: Look, you guys are adorable, to be sure. But sometimes folks get thrust into the Interschnitzel spotlight well before they are good and ready. Google, in part, has a hand in that.

Clarence Rosario

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TedSez — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:29:44 EDT

QiQi, Gold Star for standing by your man.

It worries me a little bit, though, that you say it's legal "so far" to use Google to, um, search the Internet. What exactly do you know?

TedSez

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HeyThatsMyBike — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:28:49 EDT

@Choire: I think it was something about internet writers wanting attention. But she must've missed the memo about Balk's cock being off for a couple of days.

HeyThatsMyBike

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Clevertrousers — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:23:08 EDT

I hate him and everyone like him for what they've done to New York. We need some grisly, high profile murders of a bunch of young, well-scrubbed, fresh-faced Midwesterners to curtail their boring ranks. Let's start with Pete Wentz.

Clevertrousers

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Choire — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:19:31 EDT

@QiQi: Hi QiQi! As we say on the site, non-approved commenters are manually approved by Intern Kaila. (All hail Intern Kaila!) No conspiracy there.

As for your original point, well, I'm baffled! But that's legal for now too! Too bad your guy took the blog down. So much for free speech! Best, etc.

Choire

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Audif Jackson Winters III — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:01:04 EDT

@QiQi: Yep, "internet writers" like Gawker need to goof on unpaid Google code monkeys in order to get "public attention." That's right.

Now go back to Saint-Etienne, commie.

Audif Jackson Winters III

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QiQi — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:57:38 EDT

Interesting after my second post the first appeared as well with a lightening speed. ;)
'Too Bad' that it could get to the latest for my first post... due to the 'technical' problem? :D

QiQi

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QiQi — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:47:45 EDT

I guess there's no freedom of speech here... too bad. Better do it somewhere else. :)

QiQi

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lalalina — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:43:09 EDT

i hate him. why are you making me read this?

lalalina

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cdmunch — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:37:38 EDT

He's blocked up his blog but thanks to his employer's omnipotent powers I can still read the cached version and it's BORING. Eric, you need to get high and get laid or expose Google's secret labs where the experiment on humans. Just SOMETHING interesting. Boring people don't last in New York.

cdmunch

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Ndebo — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:08:51 EDT

All I can think about is Rose Nyland talking about her Uncle Hans who rode a goat 70 miles to buy flugelvargen so the family wouldn't starve. If only they knew how easy it was nowadays.

Ndebo

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QiQi — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:04:30 EDT

I wonder how many internet writers like this one use Google to search random blogs per day to get public attention. Of course, it's legal, at least so far, and it's their profession. However as one of the closest people, I found it amusingly enough that more 90% of people are commenting total nonsense about something they don't have a clue. :) I guess, human nature.
QiQi - his girlfriend
p.s. We use 'metro' in Europe ;)

QiQi

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peppermintpatty — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:53:37 EDT

These are the kind of guys I like to fuck, to be honest.

peppermintpatty

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HeatherNumber1 — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:46:05 EDT

@Sayser: Are you kidding? Who do you think put him up to blogging in the first place? Google's going for the kiddie vote again, and Eric's their fake regular Joe, like Tom from MySpace.

HeatherNumber1

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Ned B — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:34:36 EDT

@AndIAmTellingYou: You're welcome. I'm less cute than a puppy, so I have to work harder.

Ned B

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CherryRide — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:02:34 EDT

Forget the fact that Google is going to make him take out references to his job. They're going to fire him for not using Blogger.

CherryRide

Eric Hielscher, Google Intern, Makes It In New York

TheUptightMidwesterner — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:01:55 EDT

Being a fellow Minnesotan, I feel like I should stick up for this guy, but it just makes me realize I am so lucky that they didn't have blogs in my day. I would have made the biggest twat of myself.

I agree with Swedish Fish Jr When I interned, we were told basically that we are being "judged by all at all times" and that there was no task too menial, too subhuman, too degrading to think we were above doing.

Not unlike my job now, except this 4th of July- I actually did leave early.

TheUptightMidwesterner

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Pangloss — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:58:03 EDT

I thought it was universally known as SpaHa by now.

Pangloss

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howwhitemyshirtscanbe — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:55:43 EDT

@Clarence Rosario: And rich. Damned math skills.
@swedish fish jr.: And young and healthy looking. Damned youth.
@jazzy: Nah, unless it's trade secrets or makes 'em look really bad, they encourage it, if anything. Damned sane employers.
Humanities-major peons, let us UNITE, against our technocrat overlords! We have nothing to fear but their derisive laughter!

howwhitemyshirtscanbe

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Steverino — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:55:04 EDT

He's like a less ambitious version of the Almost Famous kid.

Steverino

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Ambition_is_pretension — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:51:17 EDT

Heh, I live in Upper Northwest West Bushwick. Those bitches at 109th are totally TAME and watered down!

God, I can't wait till my lease is up.

And Far-far, ther is no WAY that kid is faking it!

Ambition_is_pretension

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Jack S — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:50:06 EDT

Will his Segway get tagged when he rolls through that tunnel?

Jack S

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far-far — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:46:52 EDT

Do you think Google fires you if they sense you're faking your virginity?

far-far

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jazzy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:45:31 EDT

And Google finds out about the blog and makes him take out references to work in 3....2...1...

jazzy

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AndIAmTellingYou — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:43:11 EDT

How sweet. An intern. He's like a little puppy. About to cross the street. I can't watch. Okay, I can.

@Ned B: I just snorted coffee all over my monitor. Thanks!

AndIAmTellingYou

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Seeräuber Jenny — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:39:46 EDT

Why the "[sic]" in the link to his blog? Surely he's not so dumb as to be ignorant of the spelling of his own name. I assume there's some kind of Germanic-Scandinavian fantasy operating here.

The saga of Erik-the-clueless?

And Eric, it depends on the person, to be sure, but most Boricuans in New York do not consider themselves to be "ex-Puerto Ricans" in the way someone who's escaped an 800-person town might be an "ex-Midwesterner." They're still Puerto Rican, in addition to whatever else they might be.

Seeräuber Jenny

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Diglett — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:36:35 EDT

@janine: OMG YES HE IS FARKUS.

Diglett

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swedish fish jr. — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:34:45 EDT

"...they could leave at 2...It didn't seem like my officemates were going to take advantage, but I felt as an intern I shouldn't feel pressure to work overtime and left around then."

Hmm. I remember my intern days. Short of allowing my officemates to assrape me, I felt like I had to do whatever possible to show I wasn't some overpriviledged snot with a huge sense of entitlement. Working late included. This kid's a little bitch.

swedish fish jr.

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Products Will Save Me — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:32:32 EDT

@earlytimezone: "...but I felt as an intern I shouldn't feel pressure to work overtime" is his subconscious way of assuring himself he will never, ever have to see 109th street or Google again after this awful summer.

Products Will Save Me

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polypam — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:32:20 EDT

"ex Puerto Rican" ? Is Johnny Depp an "ex American" because he lives in France?

I love reading blogs about youngsters coming to NYC to "make it"! The malapropisms are infinitely entertaining.

polypam

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Clarence Rosario — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:31:13 EDT

@narnio: Oh, sorry. You work for GOOG?

Clarence Rosario

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earlytimezone — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:26:51 EDT

Uh oh, he's not going to be one of those interns who actually thinks 9 to 5 means 9 to 5, is he? Also, I can't wait until he blogs with eyes wide wonder that Greenwich isn't pronounced like green witch.

earlytimezone

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hunterw — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:24:29 EDT

Hahaha I love how he takes "the metro."

hunterw

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hfree — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:21:07 EDT

Is this a way to revive the "New Guy" feature?

hfree

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janine — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:20:24 EDT

@sheistolerable: No way. Give him a coon skin cap and he'll look like Farkus from A Christmas story.

janine

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hhpeterson13 — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:20:11 EDT

What is up with the kids these days? Do they not think that their employers aren't going to Google them and screen their blogs and MySpaces? Eric, buddy, you don't go blogging about your poor financial planning/bouncing check, who helped me move, the ginormous crap I took, etc., etc. business...dipshit.

hhpeterson13

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Products Will Save Me — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:18:07 EDT

@jupiterspaw: HA. amazing. I'm picturing that Arrested Development where Tobias takes the Hot Cops to the streets to try to reform the other street toughs.

Products Will Save Me

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narnio — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:15:49 EDT

@Clarence Rosario: wow. dick. needless.

narnio

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jupiterspaw — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:14:07 EDT

Concerned Citizen: I'd say about the time he starts singing "America" to his new Puerto Rican friends on the Upper Upper East Side, in an attempt to show them he "understands" their culture.

jupiterspaw

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Mabimab — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:12:41 EDT

Wait till he meets the gays, and they fix that mop top for him.

Mabimab

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Clarence Rosario — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:10:34 EDT

Guess he's not familiar with Google Maps.

Just confirms my longstanding suspicion: Google is full of entitled, clueless idiots.

Clarence Rosario

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BK_KT — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:10:30 EDT

His naivete is cuter than a basketful of puppies!

BK_KT

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TedSez — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:08:59 EDT

He's not as naive as he sounds. That's Midwestern sarcasm -- so gentle that you don't even notice it.

TedSez

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Products Will Save Me — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:08:11 EDT

How long until that fresh-faced grin disappears?

Products Will Save Me

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LolCait — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:08:08 EDT

@sheistolerable: And the Amanda Plummer face.

LolCait

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sheistolerable — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:03:25 EDT

He's kinda cute, except for the Rupert Grint hair.

sheistolerable

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LolCait — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:01:38 EDT

Oh the wilds of 109th St! I think that's the area of the New York-New York casino that saw gunfire yesterday. It's near the shrimp buffet and, conveniently, the men's bathroom.

LolCait

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Ned B — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:01:05 EDT

Spanish Harlem is Northwest West Bushwick.

Ned B