Holy Crap!

I am officially the longest tenured Benjamin at Google.  What do I win?

Seriously.  A plaque would be nice.

One thing you might notice about the screengrab above is the cheery, youthful picture of me.  That was taken on my first day at Google, after a long summer playing soccer in the sun.  Recently, however, we had to update our corp photos, and here is the result:

GAH!  So pastey.  So lumpen.  So... defeated looking.  That is nightmare fuel, is what that is.  Here's a side-by-side, just for fun:

Haunting.