God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting to good use: my novels, my music, my game, and so on. But you get me riled enough, and I have to blog. Let’s get this over with, then. I’ll begin with a small but enlightening story from my early days at Google. For the record, I know I’ve said some perhaps unk