Every summer, interns working at Microsoft get to have dinner with Bill Gates at his house. There's a tremendous cult of personality around Bill Gates among Microsoft employees, so this is a really big deal. An intern named Jeff Maurone describes his experience and the cool parts of the house the interns are allowed to see. And the security:
The buses then proceeded through Seattle's eastside to an undisclosed location in close proximity to Bill's home. We then left the buses and were subject to airport-level security. This included shoe-removal, metal detectors, random screenings, etc.
The house sounds really cool, though, so it's worth the security hassles. Sounds like a fun evening!
I don't know...I've always thought that dinner with some of the folks on my list of luminaries (e.g.: Steve Jobs, Bono, Tori Amos...ahhh...Tori Amos, Bill Clinton) would never live up to my expectations or match the scenarios I have in my head. In a perfect world I'd have dinner with Steve Jobs and he'd be so awed by my insight that he'd ask me to run the company when he's done. Bono would be so enthralled by my deep commitment to music and rhythm that he'd kick Larry Mullen out of U2 and install me as the new drummer. Tori could do whatever she wanted with me. As much fun as it would be to have dinner with Bill Gates, I'm afraid it would just be me sitting there, spewing awkward sentence fragments of garbage with him being really bored and very unimpressed. Gee, guess someone needs to work on their self-esteem today.
Posted by: Chris Gervais | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 12:38 PM