Ceiling tiles rattle angrily over the heads of the businessmen frozen around a polished oak table.
Fluorescent lights, dangling by slender wires, swing wildly. Walls sway like computer programmers exhausted after a 72-hour coding binge. Video-game developer Trip Hawkins, an industry legend and veteran of Silicon Valley earthquakes, drops to his knees and makes it under the table with an old hand's ease. The man he has come to see slouches in his chair and grimaces at the ceiling, annoyed that his meeting has been disrupted. Damn, damn, damn.