{"id":968,"date":"2011-05-07T22:10:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T05:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=968"},"modified":"2011-05-08T07:17:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T14:17:29","slug":"motherships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/968","title":{"rendered":"Motherships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week my boss heads to London for a meeting of the combined IT groups from the three primary PlayStation divisions. It&#8217;s the same trip I went to last year that resulted in my <a title=\"Forced to be a tourist\" href=\"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/700\">extended stay<\/a>. This time, however, I am unable to go as I had already made plans to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/makerfaire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maker Faire<\/a> with my family.<\/p>\n<p>While thinking about that trip, I realized that while I don&#8217;t travel too often, I have had the opportunity through work to visit quite a few &#8216;motherships.&#8217; Since I&#8217;m a geek by profession, they&#8217;re ones most people wouldn&#8217;t care about but some might find the list interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sony Computer Entertainment America (my employer) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=sony+computer+entertainment+america,+foster+city&amp;aq=&amp;sll=51.514739,-0.138295&amp;sspn=0.001826,0.004801&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=sony+computer+entertainment+america,&amp;hnear=Foster+City,+San+Mateo,+California&amp;ll=37.55595,-122.276233&amp;spn=0.004652,0.009602&amp;t=h&amp;z=17\" target=\"_blank\">Foster City, CA<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sony Computer Entertainment Europe &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;q=sony+computer+entertainment+europe+great+marlborough+street&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=sony+computer+entertainment+europe+great+marlborough+street&amp;hnear=&amp;radius=15000&amp;ll=51.514739,-0.138295&amp;spn=0.001826,0.004801&amp;t=h&amp;z=18&amp;iwloc=A\" target=\"_blank\">London, UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sony City &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=sony+city,+shinagawa&amp;aq=&amp;sll=35.631175,139.743759&amp;sspn=0.00954,0.019205&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=sony+city,&amp;hnear=Shinagawa,+Tokyo,+Japan&amp;ll=35.63121,139.743776&amp;spn=0.00477,0.009602&amp;t=h&amp;z=17\" target=\"_blank\">Shinagawa, Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li>NetApp (storage vendor) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=495+East+Java+Drive+Sunnyvale,+CA+94089&amp;gl=us&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=37.410366,-122.011596&amp;sspn=0.006295,0.006295&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;view=map&amp;cid=7052473688898245753&amp;hq=495+East+Java+Drive+Sunnyvale,+CA+94089&amp;hnear=&amp;ll=37.410477,-122.011596&amp;spn=0.004662,0.009602&amp;t=h&amp;z=17&amp;iwloc=A\" target=\"_blank\">Sunnyvale, CA<\/a><\/li>\n<li>EMC (storage vendor) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;q=176+South+Street.+Hopkinton,+MA+01748&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=176+South+St,+Hopkinton,+Massachusetts+01748&amp;gl=us&amp;ll=42.194602,-71.540952&amp;spn=0.008696,0.019205&amp;t=h&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">Hopkinton, MA<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Apple &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1+infinite+loop,+cupertino,+santa+clara,+california+95014,+united+states&amp;aq=0&amp;gl=us&amp;g=495+East+Java+Drive,+Sunnyvale,+CA+94089-1125&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=1+Infinite+Loop,+Cupertino,+California+95014&amp;ll=37.331914,-122.02961&amp;spn=0.004666,0.009602&amp;t=h&amp;z=17\" target=\"_blank\">Cupertino, CA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have a love\/hate relationship with traveling. I like the experience, but can&#8217;t say that I wish to do more. I can&#8217;t think of any upcoming additions to the list but who knows what the future has in store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week my boss heads to London for a meeting of the combined IT groups from the three primary PlayStation divisions. It&#8217;s the same trip I went to last year that resulted in my extended stay. This time, however, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/968\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,5,3,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-family","category-geek","category-thoughts","category-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-fC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}