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78. I am the spitting image

Sun May 24, 2026, 03:21 AM

May 24

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of George RR Martin...
When I worked at Waymo at GoogleX.,
all the Labs I in which I was working were named after places in Game of Thrones.
How is that for serendipity? I also looked so much like Bobby Goldsboro that my grandmother thought I was him, when I was in my 20's.

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