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    Google rains on happy hour parade

    We hear that Palomino restaurant on the Embarcadero — a favorite happy hour location for SOMA startup employees — is having a little trouble adjusting to its new corporate neighbor. Last Friday some startup employees, enjoying after-work margaritas on the patio courtesy of their founder, got a little surprise— a shower. The boss says he complained to the waiter, who promptly blamed Google. The search giant, which rented the floors above Palomino for its new San Francisco digs, apparently installed cooling misters on the deck overlooking the restaurant for its own employees— ostensibly to ward off the heat generated when the SOMA sun meets the patio's slate floor. But Google placed the misting machines in just the right spot to send the moisture cascading off its deck onto Palomino's patio. The shower-ees were unhappy, to say the least, but we say "look on the bright side." Some people might pay for the pleasure of a baptism at the hands of Silicon Valley's Midas company.

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