Google computer nerds to teach children how to eat healthy. Oh holy God.
Google invites you to bring your children to its Mountain View headquarters next month for pizza, soda and television so it can teach them how to not be obese.
If you're afraid your kids are going to grow fat watching television on their computer or chatting with friends on the computer or surfing the Internet all day on the computer or deciding to become computer programmers who marry their computers and eat chips and Mountain Dew until the day their startup gets bought by the world's biggest computer, probably the best way to allay your fears is to march them down to Google headquarters.
Go there on October 20, when the company is fighting childhood obesity by holding a benefit for a TV show aimed at children.
The show is called "DooF" -- "food" spelled backwards -- and airs on PBS.
The benefit basically is a day of eating and walking around the Googleplex, but hey it's not as bad as I make it sound: the pizza is from an organic "make your own" workshop deal that will be led by Steve Sullivan of Acme Bread and by Google's pizza chef.
The soda is Italian soda from a "Euro Cafe" so, uh, probably still not healthy.
The TV is just a big screen showing interviews with kids at the event itself so it will not keep your kids glued.
You also get to tour an organic garden, sip smoothies, learn about "raw foods," taste apples from Donner Trail Fruit, do a food spelling bee, have a cheese sniffing contest with Cowgirl Creamery, and listen to some hip hop dudes called "Felonious." Fair enough.
Just make sure you don't accidentally come on some other day, or your impressionable youth will instead learn how to set up a webcam, start a blog and immerse herself in software development so that she can someday work in a giant computer that controls her transportation, laundry, diet, hair style, dating options, etc.
And bring some cash because Google can't just be letting anyone in the door for free, it's not like they are made of money.
Business Times: Hey kids! Come pig out at Google!
If you're afraid your kids are going to grow fat watching television on their computer or chatting with friends on the computer or surfing the Internet all day on the computer or deciding to become computer programmers who marry their computers and eat chips and Mountain Dew until the day their startup gets bought by the world's biggest computer, probably the best way to allay your fears is to march them down to Google headquarters.Go there on October 20, when the company is fighting childhood obesity by holding a benefit for a TV show aimed at children.
The show is called "DooF" -- "food" spelled backwards -- and airs on PBS.
The benefit basically is a day of eating and walking around the Googleplex, but hey it's not as bad as I make it sound: the pizza is from an organic "make your own" workshop deal that will be led by Steve Sullivan of Acme Bread and by Google's pizza chef.
The soda is Italian soda from a "Euro Cafe" so, uh, probably still not healthy.
The TV is just a big screen showing interviews with kids at the event itself so it will not keep your kids glued.
You also get to tour an organic garden, sip smoothies, learn about "raw foods," taste apples from Donner Trail Fruit, do a food spelling bee, have a cheese sniffing contest with Cowgirl Creamery, and listen to some hip hop dudes called "Felonious." Fair enough.
Just make sure you don't accidentally come on some other day, or your impressionable youth will instead learn how to set up a webcam, start a blog and immerse herself in software development so that she can someday work in a giant computer that controls her transportation, laundry, diet, hair style, dating options, etc.
And bring some cash because Google can't just be letting anyone in the door for free, it's not like they are made of money.
Business Times: Hey kids! Come pig out at Google!
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