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Rypple and The Roots

Jay Goldman ~ July 13th, 2010

Sometimes you get emails from your boss that make you wish it was Friday or that you were invisible and could hide under your desk. This was not one of those emails:

Would you be interested in VIP seats for the ROOTS June 29th?  The Roots are amazing, if you don’t know!

I couldn’t have replied “HELL YES” any faster without fracturing my fingers on the keyboard. I mean, it’s one thing to have a night at the pub to make you feel proud of your job — it’s entirely another to get to see one of the greatest hip hop acts of all time from the third row.

And so we went and it was awesome. Here’s a clip of You Got Me from 1999’s Things Fall Apart going into a guitar solo from “Captain” Kirk Douglas and then into an awesome rendition of Sweet Child of Mine (for real):

Bet you want to work somewhere that loves its team this much. On a related note, did I mention we’re hiring?

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Jay has been providing a human side to technology for over ten years, as a technologist, user experience specialist, and visual designer. Jay is the author of The Facebook Cookbook for O’Reilly Media.

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