> Incidentally, most of my notoriety at Google (if people
  > still know of me, and I honestly have no clue) comes
  > from the fact that I raised the game quality issue and
  > drew negative attention from powerful people (contrary
  > to Google's professed "we welcome disagreement" ethos).

It is unlikely that the Google engineers present during your employment will ever forget you. Indeed, the story of Michael Church continues to echo throughout mailing lists across all of engineering.

However, I doubt this is only because you irritated senior executives by sending them rambling manifestos about the inherent superiority of your self-designed card game. Although that may have been the origin of your legend, it was not truly cemented until you cross-posted them to a company-wide mailing list and then engaged in a flamewar against all comers.

After your resignation, some of us compared notes on who had received the most disproportionate response to criticism. I was sure that being called a child molester in reply to pointing out your lack of credible accomplishment would win me first, but sadly I did not even place in the top three.