This picture, posted to McKinney's Facebook site stirred all sorts of conversation over the weekend, from the absurd (Google moving their headquarters to McKinney) to the possible
(Google has already chosen McKinney as one of their giganet test sites):
Guess who else is working on an official City response to the Google Request For Information (RFI)? Anna! That's right - we're working behind the scenes to draft an officially sanctioned municipal response indicating why "Y{our} Hometown" is ideally situated to be a host site for fiber-to-the-desktop beta service. Ten years ago this was nothing more than a pipe-dream, yet today, technological advances not yet even considered could be realized atop an infrastructure of that magnitude.
Sadly, that picture is not real. About an hour ago the "unveiling" took place.
The announcement?
That McKinney is
also going to respond to the RFI.
How sad that they used photoshop'd pictures and made it sound like there was something more concrete to reveal. Then I thought, "What if we're going about this the wrong way?" It dawned on me all those numbers Google is asking for is just BORING STUFF. We need to rename the new high school to GOOGLE HIGH. And add a little mutli-colored "G" to our City Seal. Why I could photoshop John Geren standing in front of the GOOGLE LIBRARY to be built next to City Hall, if only they'd choose us.
When I was in High School our church entered a float into the Arlington Fourth of July Parade. The rules: FLOAT MUST REPRESENT UNITED STATES HISTORY. We spent a week building a huge wooden frame over a gigantic 1973 Cadillac and we literally crafted sea to shining sea, with key moments in our Nation's history highlighted along the multi-tiered mobile structure, with music from John Philip Sousa to Lee Greenwood.
The winning float?
The one of the mascot of the local high school that made it to State that year.
Thanks for lowering the bar, McKinney.
