Wednesday, April 05, 2006
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MPORTANT NEWS UPDATE: We ID'd a Google Romancer.
The male member of Google Romance's model couple has (assuming the tipster's honest) been ID'd:
don't know the girl, but the guy is a product marketing manager named Jon Steinbeck. I don't know about any relations, but the name is no joke.
The tipster goes on to say some terribly unkind things, but suffice to say the "User B is kind of full of himself" line is, in their opinion, funny 'cause it's true.
So we just need the name of lovely User A. Clue me in at tips@valleywag.com.
Earlier: Who's that Googler: the Google Romancers [Valleywag]
Read More: google, romance, your privacy is an illusion.
This is just not accurate. Jon is a genuinely nice, unassuming, and all around wonderful guy. I don't know what this "tipster" hoped to achieve by submitting such horrible comments about such a good guy.
by jb17 on 04/03/06 04:23 PM
They were pretty horrible comments. Anyone else who wishes to come to Jon's defense, or be a witty and more-reasonable-than-the-tipster detractor, e-mail in or IM "HeyValleywag" for a comment account.
Jon Steinbackis an upstanding citizen. I know the city of Salinas wasn't too happy with what Jon Steinback said about Cannery Row, but let's put that aside. . .
Jon was born to some Missionaries working with Mother Teresa in Calcultta. They said that if he played with the lepers there he'd catch the disease. Well, he did.
Open sores aren't the only things Jon brought to the States. Some say the new exec. director of Google.org, Larry Brilliant, created the cure for smallpox, but they have it all wrong. It was Jon. He gave it to him on a scrap of paper to Uncle Larry when he was 12 and told his parents "oh it's just a letter to Santa." And, I don't want to give too much away, but I think the new work he's doing turning vegetable oil into fossil fuel is pretty amazing.
I can't blame the original tipster for calling Jon a bad dude. I know what you mean, someone that good, makes me want to puke, too. But knowing Jon, he'd probably be there with the barf bag.
by epf2001 on 04/04/06 03:37 PM
