Sergei Brin @ 101

Posted on | March 6, 2009 | No Comments

Bay area comute is never boring:

Accidents are daily phenomenons that you have to consider in your travel plan.
Nice and rare vehicles are often spotted here. From Ferrari to Maserati to Ducati to Smart. C-class Mercedeses are as frequent as Honda Civics, and Lexuses are just more common than GM cars.
Phoning without hands free and texting while driving is illegal, but people still pull stunts like shaving or putting on mascara at red lights.
Obnoxious license plates are fun to spot. I am yet to register mine ‘G3EK1AB.’
Occasional celebrity spotting are possible.

This morning, I had the rare chance to experience the last. As I merge in from 237 West to 101 North, I was beside a Black Porche Carrerra with “I am feeling Lucky” license plate holder. So I know I was next to a googler, which are plentyful in this area.

I ran through thoughts about Google Page Rank talk that I presented at a Math Symposium at Penn State. I got a kick thinking that Google was actually going to remove the “I am feeling lucky” button from its page. But users seem to like the 2-button page layout.

Approaching the Shoreline exit, the Porsche driver slowed down to merge behind me to take the exit. That’s when I saw the driver of the black Carrerra: Sergei Brin!!

I did consider that I could have forced a face-to-face meeting by slamming my break reall hard. But then that would probably banish any chance for me to ever work for/with him. So I let him go…