NYC trivia: Once upon a time, and it may still be true, you could go to the Astor Place barber shop on special days and get your hair cut for free. Downside: it would be cut be a trainee, and results might be unpredictable.
Sigh. Maybe I just don't get it [tm]. Everything on the Google side sounded way more appealing than everything on the Meetup side. Maybe it's just the way I'm drawn.
Oh, and especially that thing about how having a view of three (ugly) bridges from some skyscraper is way cooler than playing hackeysack in the googleplex. Uh, ok, dude has apparently never actually been to California. For me, I'll take beautiful year-round weather with fun-loving googlers over crappy weather with hard-nosed, fast-talking meetup stress cases who get to look out over some ... um ... bridges.
It was not to make Meetup look more attractive than Google. It was just a comparison with a humorous angle. Different people will like different things.
Au contraire. Its intention is definitely to make google look less desirable.
Apparently this meetup ceo guy has a reputation for attacking others; most of the entries are unprovoked attacks on other companies (for instance, he rails on SixApart because they're offering a non-blog page-creation tool on TypePad).
NYC trivia: Once upon a time, and it may still be true, you could go to the Astor Place barber shop on special days and get your hair cut for free. Downside: it would be cut be a trainee, and results might be unpredictable.