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Are you near San Jose and Bored Tonight? 65

Posted by CmdrTaco from the time-to-party dept.
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.
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  • ... (Score:1)

    by drwiii ( 434 )
    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. ;>

  • ... (Score:1)

    by drwiii ( 434 )
    Byte me.
  • For those antsy to see pictures of the party, check them out here [abisource.com], 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.
  • :) 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
  • "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"
  • 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.

  • Bwahaha! (Score:1)

    by ptor ( 9333 )
    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?

    hrm...then again...is this posting either? :oP
  • Ahh...good old Joe's. It never fails that we end up there when hit SJ.

  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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.

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