Tux

...making Linux just a little more fun!

[OT] Meetup?

Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]


Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:57:08 +0100

2009/9/15 Rick Moen <[email protected]>:

> Quoting Jimmy O'Regan ([email protected]):
>
>> I'll be in San Francisco for a couple of days next month (Google
>> Mentor Summit). Will anyone else be around?
>
> Only all the time.
>
> Chez Moen is down about 60 km south of the city of San Francisco,
> at the base of the San Francisco Peninsula, close to Stanford
> University.  I don't very often get to San Francisco, but certainly
> can/will in order to rendezvous and spend time.
>

With less than a week left, I just now took the time to look at a map and see where I'll /really/ be; turns out it's Sunnyvale, which is much closer to Stanford :)

-- 
<Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
<Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.


Top    Back


Breen Mullins [breen.mullins at gmail.com]


Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:01:14 -0700

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 15:57, Jimmy O'Regan <[email protected]> wrote:

> >
> With less than a week left, I just now took the time to look at a map
> and see where I'll /really/ be; turns out it's Sunnyvale, which is
> much closer to Stanford :)

So where/when will you be around?

-- 
Breen Mullins
<[email protected]>


Top    Back


Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]


Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:58:00 +0100

2009/10/17 Breen Mullins <[email protected]>:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 15:57, Jimmy O'Regan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> With less than a week left, I just now took the time to look at a map
>> and see where I'll /really/ be; turns out it's Sunnyvale, which is
>> much closer to Stanford :)
>
> So where/when will you be around?

From Friday morning to Monday morning; staying in Sunnyvale, and the Google thing is Saturday and Sunday in Google HQ. I'm planning to go pretty much straight from the airport to Golden Gate (too many people have put it into my head that I have to go there), which'll probably take up most of the day(?); we have a meet and greet thing at 5pm, which from what I gather is dinner then drinking. (I'm not exactly the poster boy for the temperance movement, which is why I'd like to get Golden Gate out of the way first :)

-- 
<Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
<Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.


Top    Back


Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]


Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:57:41 -0700

Quoting Jimmy O'Regan ([email protected]):

> With less than a week left, I just now took the time to look at a map
> and see where I'll /really/ be; turns out it's Sunnyvale, which is
> much closer to Stanford :)

/me checks, and is mildly astonished to note that he's sitting in front of a workstation in Sunnyvale -- not to be confused with Sunnydale, home of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and friends.[1]

[1] Except in the movie, where it was indeed Sunnyvale, occasioning much local amusement.


Top    Back


Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]


Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:00:37 +0100

2009/10/17 Rick Moen <[email protected]>:

> Quoting Jimmy O'Regan ([email protected]):
>
>> With less than a week left, I just now took the time to look at a map
>> and see where I'll /really/ be; turns out it's Sunnyvale, which is
>> much closer to Stanford :)
>
> /me checks, and is mildly astonished to note that he's sitting in
> front of a workstation in Sunnyvale -- not to be confused with
> Sunnydale, home of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and friends.[1]
>
> [1] Except in the movie, where it was indeed Sunnyvale, occasioning much
> local amusement.
>

What a terrible movie... though it does have the best hammed up death scene I've ever seen :)

-- 
<Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
<Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.


Top    Back


Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]


Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:46:27 -0700

Quoting Jimmy O'Regan ([email protected]):

[Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1992 movie with Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry, and -- notably -- Paul Reubens.]

> What a terrible movie... though it does have the best hammed up death
> scene I've ever seen :)

Just so.

The movie took Joss Whedon's original script and joked it up to the point that it was just high-"camp" -- to the author's disappointment, but he had no creative control. Some years later, he was able to get television funding for a series based on the same concept with creative control. The series was what is termed a "mid-season replacement", where one of the broadcast networks has cancelled something and seeks to fill in the vacancy in its schedule with a speculative offering from its "spare" efforts. Mid-season replacements have often been among the more wildly creative programmes, in consequence. (Of course, most such replacements fail quickly.)


Top    Back