Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Great Googly Moogly!

So I surprised the Illustrator team Monday morning when I gave my two week notice to Adobe. As of Jan 23rd, I will no longer be an Adobe employee, but instead will be joining the Mac client team at Google. Unfortunately I can't tell you what I'll be working on, but it should keep me out of trouble. I'm going to be working with a pile of incredibly talented people (like this guy).

The commute is going to be a bit longer for me, but I'm extremely excited about the work and culture change.

So it's less than 2 weeks into the New Year, and I've already done the major change in my life. Love getting those resolutions over with early...now I've got the rest of the year to relax ;-)

Link for those of you wondering where the title came from. It's actually something my friend Craig used to say all the time, but I never knew where it came from.

10 comments:

Aki said...

Ooh. Ooh. Can you tell us what you will be working on ?? :P

Congratz!

Dave said...

Ooh. Ooh. Can you tell us what you will be working on ??

and here I thought that "Unfortunately I can't tell you what I'll be working on" was pretty unambiguous...

Sorry...the usual "I could, but then I'd have to shoot you" applies :)

Thanks though...feel free to drop be the Googleplex and say hi. Lunch is on me....

gfox said...

Does that free lunch apply to me as well? Congrats Dave. Sounds like a ... mysterious job, but I'm sure it will be quite an interesting challenge.

Woohoo!

Mordy said...

Congrats Dave! I can't wait to see what you'll be doing at Google!

Mary said...

Free lunch for me as well? Way to go! Lucky Google. I'm sure you can tell me what your working on. Right??? I promise not to tell....:-)

Jon said...

Hey, congratulations!

Jean-Claude said...

Hey, that’s a great lost for Adobe... and a great win for Google! I’m sure you will add a lot of deep and commitment at you new job (as you have done for Adobe and illustrator). By the way, Keira is getting so cute over time. Good luck, I will miss you.

Chris said...

Can you tell us and shoot Aki? :-)

Seriously, dude, congratulations. I look forward to hearing of your exploits at the googleplex.

Btw, Great Googly Moogly appears to have originated in the blues. I heard it courtesy of Mojo Nixon way back when. Or was it Zappa? Actually, I think it was Zappa.

Brent said...

Totally awesome, Dave. Have a blast.

Noelle said...

AWESOME! FREE LUNCH!

Seriously, I am very happy for you although people at Adobe are pretty pissed that they are loosing you. They all said "we need more MacLachlan, not less!".