These Google searches, among many others, brought people to Trainjotting this week. It appears our visitors like drinking on the train (cheers to that!), are more than a little obsessed with the secret platform in Grand Central, and aren’t above a little “naggling.”

sopranos commute

trainjotting.com (Editor’s Note: Yay!)

LAZY LIRR CONDUCTORS

new roc city riot

naggling

beer guy paid

“pete seeger” banjo 2007

sneak alcohol on lirr

secret bar lounge Grand Central Terminal

subway commute + India

Rich Hall’s Sniglets

lirr fake tickets

secret tunnel under grand central termin

i saw FDR’s secret train platform

train stop sudden jerk

It’s always interesting to play around with our little web-diagnostics tool and see just what search terms led people to Trainjotting. I now know for a fact our readers are obsessed with pants, crotches, and John Rocker in shorts.

A random smattering of search terms from the last week:

nyt metro north ripped pants

waldorf astoria secret railway

riot at new roc city

noticed her “staring at my crotch”

“life, liberty and a cold one”

free gangsta ho

john rocker in shorts

LIRR Trains rip pants

auden + “picking my nose”

new roc city riot

straphanger clothing

long island padding zoo

Interesting page 1 story in the Times yesterday about employees at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters hopping the Google buses to go to work, complete with photo of lots of white people reading books and listening to iPods on the bus.

The Google thinking is, offering free chef-prepared food and on-site oil changes, haircuts and rock-climbing wall, not to mention W-Fi-equipped bus service, gets greater productivity out of its employees, and the cost of offering such fringe benefits (Editor’s Note: I thought the term was “French benefits” until I was 11), ultimately pays off in increased productivity.

So are these benefits the trappings of a dotcom with a ferociously bloated stock (one recalls dotcom CEOs in black pocket t-shirts playing hoops in their Tribeca loft offices not that long ago), or the model workplace of the future? We shall see.

The article notes that Yahoo and eBay also offer bus service, though neither can match Google’s 32 buses and 1,200 daily riders–about a quarter of the workforce at Googleplex.

There’s an interesting note about etiquette on board the Google bus: cellphone conversations are limited to work calls and must be sotto voce.

I think the buses are free, though the reporter failed to mention it.

It being California and all, you can bring your dog on board and strap your bicycle to the bus’s exterior. But one can’t help but wonder, especially if that one is me–can you pop a beer on the Google bus on a Friday after work?