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Are you near San Jose and Bored Tonight?
Tonight at 7 (for once on Slashdot, the times will be
pacfic and not eastern!) we're going to hang out at some place called
Cafe Babylon- its
like a block away from the Convention Center. It
meets my single requirement for an eating establishment:
net access. So anyway, the BSI boys are gonna hang out
there this evening (Alex is giving me free food! Yee haw)
If you're in the area, stop in. We'll have our own little
Slashdot pre-LinuxWorld party. It'll be fun.
Sorry, unable to attend.
I'm not only moving to San Francisco 2 weeks late for LinuxWorld. I'm missing this!
Life sucks-ass.
There's a Togo's near one of the branhes of Computer Literacy bookstore (or, there was last time I visited Silicon Valley a few years ago). Buy some good books that you can't find back home, and then go next door and read them while enjoying a large hot #7, and life is perfect.
Also make sure to visit the Computer Literacy near the airport. That one is huge. Imaging a store as large as many big general bookstores, but devoted almost entirely to computer books (there is some general science and engineering, and a business sections, but the bulk of the store is computer books).
Just wish I was there and wondering if I am getting first post. This is my first ever post.
- Short, "dirty blond" hair
- A "disco" polyester shirt
- Navy blue pants
- A green jacket
- An Ankh necklace that I never take off
- Sam TrenholmeOn Wednesday there will be a special private party at Cafe Babylon for LinuxWorld goers. Free food, drink, and beer from 8pm until 12am. Pick up a ticket at WPI's booth at LinuxWorld. Directions are available.
cool greesy dork party
I was actually in SF on vacation. Of course my girlfriend would have killed me if I told her we were going to hang out with computer geeks for an evening. She was annoyed enough at me for dragging her to a Fry's.
(Weird things that were different from Minnesota. Grocery and convience stores had wine. Fairly good wine too and lots of it, I didn't realize how dry MN was. Also, Fry's had porn. Right next to the video games too. Kinda cool actually, but it's a bit of a 'huh?' moment because it was like seeing porn for sale at 'Best Buy' or 'Target'.)
Can we, please?
AC
I will be at the Cafe Babylon tonight for the slashdot gathering and at Linux World tomorrow. If anyone is interested in getting together to talk about Golgotha, or you just wanna hang out drop me an email so we can meet up!
Jonathan Clark
jc@crack.com
maybe we should all have parties in our respective hometowns! ..anyone up for lewisburg, pa? heh didnt think so.. have fun tonite I'd like to see it in person!
Maybe if we were talking a meeting at Magic Edge I'd venture over the hill from Santa Cruz. Also, I thought that the Pink Puddle had net access, maybe you guys should move things over to their, that'd probably draw me out as well :)
Anonymous first time poster
There is a little thing called timezones. Maybe you have heard of them? California is in the Pacific time zone. I invite you to get off the crack and join us in the 20th century.
Why would you post a question if you aren't going to check back for answers. You will read this again, and you will probably cry when you do because I hurt your feelings. Then don't be a troll. On the other hand, you sound like the type of person who doesn't leave his closet, except to go the the mailbox to pick up the newest issue of Gigantic Asses.
Fry's closes at 9, I believe.
You can live in Palo Alto and the cities nearby, but you'll pay for it. Rents on the peninsula are staggering, and real estate is totally out of the question unless unless you can afford a $15k or $30k down payment.
Or you can live in East Bay (Fremont, Hayward, etc) where rent is merely high, but waste your life away stuck in traffic. (You'll pretty much have to cross the bay on a bridge - and bridges suck).
South Bay is the worst of both world for you - insane rent and sucky commute.
I lived in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin before moving to SF.
Iowa was the weirdest. There are (almost) no liquor stores in Iowa. Grocesry stores have everything from beer & wine right on through to the hard stuff, and usually 2 isles of it. Then there were the "drug" stores, which supposed to be pharmacies, but were basically a rack displaying aspirin and the rest of the store was alcohol.
Nothing beats walking home drunk on $2.00 Kamikazes at 2:00am every Thursday. Funny, but it just never occured to me that other Slashdotters live where I do. I always assume that you are all just little voices in my head, probably a side effect of Tunes decible level.
GK
- Just Another Anonymous Coward
what's going on in the evening for the rest of linuxworld? we were going to fly down to san jose to show up at cafe babylon this evening, but the airlines won't accept reservations made less than six hours in advance. what day is best to come down for? marisa@teleport.com
nuff said.
i mean, are there rooms or should I plan to sleep in my car?
Tom Cronin
Finding a place to live in the South Bay is a very big PITA. Rents are horrible (+$1k for a 600ft^3 apt.) and available units are very hard to find. The Palo Alto, Mountain View, Menlo Park area is probably the worst in this respect. As one poster mentioned, stay away from East Palo Alto - very dangerous. If you can, try to find a place in the East Bay, say north of Milpitas and south of Oakland. The commute across the Bay is bad but if you are an early riser, you can probably avoid the worst of it.
Raymond Fellers
rfellers@ix.netcom.com
I really want to go see the other Slashdotters, but I'm reluctant to admit I'm amongst the ranks. I try to be a snappy dresser, socialize as much as humanly possible for a college student, and I guess I'm just in denial. Also I'm afraid there won't be any hotties there, and at 22 that is the main focus of my life.
GK
- A Closet Geek
Well if things go my way this evening Ill be there.
Magic Edge sucks. Too expensive.
Pink Puddle? Do you mean the Pink Poodle?
- Get some roomates
- Get a flophouse in downtown San Jose
Roomates are nice. I am paying $425 a month for a medium-sized bedroom in Sunnyvale, which is not too far from Palo Alto--you could avoid the freeways by just going up El Camino Real.Flophouses (or 'boarding houses') are not-so-nice. The cheapest one I stayed at was $440 for four weeks. Did I mention the housemate who was too lazy to go to the bathroom to pee, so he peed in bottles in his room? The other place I had for $600/four weeks was slightly better. Slightly being the key word.
I (foolishly) never tried the "room for rent" thing in the newspaper. This may be a good idea.
Did I mention that you can look at San Jose/Palo Alto area classified for free at www.mercurycenter.com?
I know I'm moving from the realm of geek and towards the realm of nerd, but I'm gonna bring a couple of decks of magic cards tonight if anybody wants a game I suggest you do the same.
Please Post. TIA
I'm up here in SF the one night I don't have access to a car. How close does the CalTrain station come to passing by there? Anybody wanna give a Linux-using, small armored mammal a ride?
Thanks,
Armadillo
armadilo@daft.com
Will there be any warez couriers at the party?
I am a member of PWA, and I would like to meet some other warez couriers.
A week?---yeah, right!!!! :)
I suppose you're one of those crazy east-coast types who think there are SIDEWALKS in L.A.
too right?
I just finished a month-long search for an apt. in SF and man was it a pain. It's insane anywhere you go in the Bay Area. $1500/month average for
a 1-bedroom in SF, $1K or so elsewhere. However, my LL is pretty cool and didn't even blink when I talked about setting up an antenna to do LOS wireless between my place and another geekhaus
a block or two away from me here in The City.
If we can find it we'll take digital photos and post at this page.
Along with our other Linux Expo diary entrees.
Gotta get food and fly.
Quinn and Mark
DEAL Lab, UNL
Does Fry's really _need_ slashdotting anyway? :) They're usually somewhat crowded to begin with.
(And some of their merchandise isn't all that good anyway. Too many returns, any memory that's worth anything is overpriced, and some brands are missing...)
I'm sorry, but if I choose to use shorthand and say "hotties", I'l damn well do that.
Mayhaps I should have said "attractive members of the opposite sex", but then again I'm not all that PC. You are right on about the ammount I "get", though, as I haven't really made a play since I broke up with my girlfriend of 5.5 years who just happened to also be an insufferable bitch.
In summary, hell yes, I'm looking for hotties, hell no, I haven't been getting any, and hell yes I hope the first will positively impact the second.
GK
- Closet Geek
PS: I'm at school right now, but I'll be over in an hour or so.
I saw the online survey. I aint going to no party that's only 4% female! Harumph! :-P
More like 100 to 150 people. The coffee line is quite slashdotted, with people waiting 20 minutes or longer just to get a cup of coffee.
- Sam Trenholme (Thanks to Alex for letting me post from his laptop)
I did!
I got down there around 20:45, caught a 68 to 2nd
and something, and walked a block over.
I said hi to Rob and Hemos and generally tried to be as un-annoying as possible(damn near impossible as I'm sure friends would willingly divulge).
They're pretty cool guys and dedicated too.
Malda was posting from a VA Research laptop while
we talked. In case you were wondering, I was the
guy w/ the Libretto 70 and Rio sitting next to the Fishdot pholx.
Anyways, I had to split after only about an hour to make sure I could catch the last train back up North. I can't wait for Wed. when I can actually go to the show.
Armadillo
Yeesh.
Sure thing. Which one though? I'll be the guy
with the shaved head, four eyed and big dark blue
Jacket and brown slippers.
Stilltimelefttobookaflight.. Stilltimelefttobookaflight.. Stilltimelefttobookaflight..
I can just envision Rob and company touring all the clubs in the city.. Like those roxbury guys from SNL.. except the song playing is the RMS remix mp3. ;>
Byte me.
For those antsy to see pictures of the party, check them out here , where AbiSource has some coverage of th event.
Anybody gonna take pictures of a flesh-and-blood /. effect. I'd think it would be of historic interest. Wish I was closer.
"shop smart:shop s-mart" ash
:) just a run down 101
Heh -- if you'd posted this four days ago, we would've still had a room available in my house in PA...:)
The market actually appears to be a little softer in the past couple of months than it has been the last few times I've tried to find a place. It actually took us two months to find a roommate (the house is nice, but small, and only has one bathroom for three people).
Besides www.mercurycenter.com's classifieds, I'd check Yahoo Classifieds as well as the Palo Alto Weekly (www.paweekly.com). And RentNet. And, of course, ba.market.housing. Location-wise, Palo Alto is great if you can find a place; Menlo Park and Redwood City might be good places to the north (towards San Francisco), and Mountain View and Sunnyvale to the south (towards San Jose).
The main thing to remember is that, as others have mentioned, you should expect to pay a LOT more rent for a LOT less space anywhere in the South Bay or on the Peninsula than you would anywhere else in the country except probably Manhattan. It ain't cheap to live here, but I love it anyway.
Side note: East Palo Alto is not as bad as it used to be (was the per-capita murder capital of the country in 1989 or thereabouts), but there are still parts where I definitely wouldn't want to live. And it's still got a very bad reputation among Bay Area denizens...
Feel free to email me (aelman@alumni.stanford.org) if you have any other questions!
Adam
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
"Little"? You do realize, I hope, that you're going to move the Slashdot Effect out of cyberspace and into the Real World (tm). Just try to picture how many tens of thousands of local Slashdot contributors and lurkers will read this item between now and tonight, and they'll all descend en masse on the cafe in a shoulder-rubbing session not seen since the Mozilla party almost a year ago.
By the way, I question your priorities -- net access is nice, but my requirements for an eating establishment usually involve edible food...?
And how will we find you?
Just a little social experiment, do slashdotters really venture out into the real world for an event such as this. I would doubt. Meeting new people cold turkey etc.
Although I am stereotyping rather badly. No flames as I will not be reading this thread again.
no comment on the hottie-or-not thing, but i would have LOVED to come, if i wasn't on the wrong stinkin' coast. /and/ i'm 22 too :). :)
Part of the female 4% of Slashdot,
--anneke
"Real Women Use Linux"
--Anneke
"Real Women Use Linux"
So you're testing the /. effect on restaurants now? :-)
Hey, what other Grubbing Stations meet that one requirement? I live here in Kansas City, Missouri and I don't know of one single Net-Cafe in my area. Anyone else live around KC? How about a few directions? If it's got food and a T1, I'm there.
Heh-heh.
I'll run over to the cafe, if only to see the Slashdot effect in non-virtual form. Cafe Babylon will probably be swamped.
Damn. Can't find them on the web. Babylon is the place that used to be Kismet, right? Tall double doors with art gallery in the back?
Ptor
Okay, I should have looked harder. Here's the URL:
http://www.cafebabylon.com/
Food review: I had a sandwich there a month ago. It was alright. But this is a coffeehouse with typical coffeehouse speed service.
Food alternatives:
Original Joes - First street + San Pablo? Open late.
Iguana's Taqueria - 3rd + San Pablo. Open late.
Ptor
Well, I don't know if it has improved or not, but you'd probably do well to avoid East Palo Alto. Ten years back, my friend's parents used to greet him with:
"We're glad you're home safe! There was automatic weapons fire in the neighborhood tonight..."
I hope that's changed since then...
Yeah, that place is reasonably large.. fortunately, the overflow will have lots of space at first street billiards next door, and a couple other nearby coffee shops...
So, I guess to keep the metaphor going, Togos is the equiv of cachedot?
...few years ago in slc. Holding "Coffee" in restraunts and yuppie joints... Seeing people post messages like, "I'll be wearing..." And abnoxious modemers sometimes getting kicked out of said joints for being too loud. (Was/is it like that anywhere else?)
I wonder if a global slashdot party could be arranged. A meeting place in every major city. I guess you'd need some sort of reason though.
I beg to differ...
The *only* thing to eat at Togo's is a hot #25... loaded with sauce.
mmmm... sauce.
Well, considering there are about a ZILLION postings before you, I'd say that by the time you posted this you should have known you weren't first post. Besides, is first post a decent reason to take up clock cycles?
:oP
hrm...then again...is this posting either?
Ahh...good old Joe's. It never fails that we end up there when hit SJ.
"Although we may build the technology that we define as tools, we must be vigilant that those tools do not define us."
I'm out of the state until Thursday. Lets make another meeting and tell people a week ahead of time. The place would be packed.
-Nicholas Blasgen
Togo's bites!!!
Blech!
There are too many cool places like Gordon Biersch and Kobe's that one can go to.
Geez... you could have at least suggested Uno's or Carls', Jr.
Other cool (read: inexpensive) places...
Pluto's in Palo Alto
Mango Cafe in Palo Alto
Frankie, Johnny, & Luigi's in Mtn. View.
nothing in Santa Clara
that Korean BBQ place in Sunnyvale with a name I can't remember. Anyway, that place isn't inexpensive.
Any Chinese place in downtown Mtn. View.
Absolutely nothing in downtown Saratoga
The list goes on...
--Al
Stupid job...
If it wasn't for this damn job, I would be there. Stupid rent. Stupid electricity. Stupid telephone. Stupid ISP. Stupid cat. Uh, no. Good cat. Nice kitty! Niiiiiiice kitty.
The Cheese
My favorite part of Fry's is the grocery isle, having lived in Minnesota for a little while (bay area native) the part I found most bizarre was probably... well wait, I lived in a dorm, I didn't see much of Minnesota... I remember the cold, and the flat, ahhh I remember, it was the trees I found most bizarre. All of the trees were so small.
St Paul. I attended Hamline University for a full simester before I had to leave, for quite a few reasons.