Visiting Seattle

What kind of things are you interested in?

I'll be in Seattle for the summer (MS internship) but will be gone long before PAX happens, I'm afraid. There's plenty to do around the city. You interested in local history (if so, the underground tour's fun)? Good food recommendations? Beautiful sights? Night scene? Seattle has a lot, so figuring out what you're looking for can help narrow it down.

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Originally Posted by Alai

Strange Arainach, I figured you for the Linux type. I guess we all have our price, I suppose. Joking of course, good luck with that.

I vastly prefer Linux as a development and server environment, but as a desktop it's a tossup. I haven't truly hated a Microsoft product since Windows 95 (buggiest piece of crap ever. I didn't use ME so I can't comment on it). I still disagree with many of their business practices, but in terms of technology, their modern stuff is pretty solid. XP was reliable, Vista's even more so for me, and Visual Studio and Office are both at the top for very good reasons.

Plus, this is an internship. The point is to get diverse industry experience with whoever'll look best on my Resume. And I can't think of anyone I'd rather have on there than MS. I've spent time with Google employees, talked over stuff with them, and everything I've seen has suggested that the Microsoft corporate culture is a near-perfect match for me. A lot of very smart people, casual but with well-defined and designed policies, but still with personalities and lives of their own. I look at Google employees like grad students - absolutely no life outside of the company. They love the company and the company treats them well, but they work ungodly hours year-round. That's not what I want.

Plus, Seattle (what I saw of it when I spent a weekend there in January) is beautiful.

There's nowhere I can't reach.