I would be more put off by their promise to serve you something "precious and peculiar".
I didn't even get that far. You're right; that is worrisome.
If one recalls correctly,* a "peculiar" was, in the olden days, a church located in a diocese other than that having hierarchical authority over its officiant. I assume that, in mixological terms, this means something requiring a moustache and some asinine combination of sleeve garters, hand-hacked ice and vertiginous pricing.
* And one does; one is just modest.
"precious and peculiar"
Shoot, that could be the mouseover text here.
To Serve Beverages turned out not to be a bar guide. Now I work for a Cream Soda.
"Exogenous and infundibuliform"
Put me down as a "maybe." Work is gonna be a stone bitch next week.
"Orthogonal and sleekit"
Suddenly an additional dimension of humor in this old post is revealed to me.
10: I really tried to make Friday work, but there was no way to stick around and still make my flight to see the boyfriend.
Apparently they serve only two drinks (though there seems to be some sort of punch pictured elsewhere; perhaps an office party). So those must be amazing.
14: You've been going out with him for, what, 6 weeks now? And you've known us for how many years? Sad.
Oh alas! I will be in SF but not until Friday so I will miss you all. My loss. I'll be taking up round the clock residence at like Zeitgeist probably, for those of you still around and interested in further drinking.
Bottom of the Hill isn't too far from there, if you don't want artisanal cocktails. It's a kind of a club, but there's a patio and the Dum Dum girls are playing.
One possibility would be Bloodhound. I've heard good things about it, plus the Chairman should be there. OTOH my cow-orkers may be there.
And according to yelp a different truck goes by.
17: Dunno about anyone else, but I'm always game for Zeitgeist. It's probably going to be raining, though.
Oh my god it is supposed to rain. Balls to that.
I ought be able to attend a Di meetup.
I can't come because I'm in Jimbaran, bali, but I wanted to let you all know it's beautiful and the beach is really low-key with lots of indonesian families enjoying it in the late afternoon. although we did get stung by what we would call in hilton head "hot jelly", aka busted up siponophores. girl y (aged 6) got stung on the face and didn't cry, thereby winning the day's "be brave, happy warrior" award. I sometimes am concerned that I stigmatize my older daughter for being a wuss, but christ, she's such a wuss. then again, she got stung on the chest and didn't cry either, so...
I can't come because I'm in Jimbaran, bali, but I wanted to let you all know it's beautiful and the beach is really low-key with lots of indonesian families enjoying it in the late afternoon.
You neglected to mention how many orgasms you're having.
The wordcount of alameida's comments are to be taken as numerating the day's orgasms. It's a milder form of bragging.
You neglected to mention how many orgasms you're having.
Didn't you read her comment at all? She can't come.
28, 30: I don't know what you're talking about, old beans.
For the setup. I knew someone would take advantage of it.
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Holy shit. I just discovered that there's a falconry on the hill above my city, with weekly tour/exhibition things in winter. Woo!
Perhaps D^2 can identify what sort of owl Juliane is. She doesn't seem large enough to be a Eurasian Eagle Owl, but I'm hardly an expert.
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37.2: Certainly looks like one to me. And about the right size.
Good point. I guess in the time since D^2 first posted about them, they'd taken on mythical proportions in my imagination. This clip probably had something to do with it.
39: Yeah, the wingspan is what really takes your breath away: Wikipedia: The Eagle Owl has a wingspan of 138-200 cm (55-71 in) and measures 58-73 cm (23-29 in) long.
It is kind of interesting how the feathers (and wings) of bird obscure the shapes of their bodies. I had a cardinal at our feeder for a few weeks that had lost its tail feathers--they really are stubby little fuckers. Cardinals also look at surprisingly forlorn and ridiculous if they lose their crests.
Yeah, it is. The discrepancy is part of what makes cuddling birds so fun. Oooo you scrawy little birdy!
Maybe when you cuddle birds. My pets wuvved me.
The post title keeps reminding me of the "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday" scene from Return of the Secaucus Seven.
That scene isn't on youtube, but I am reminded that it's a darn good movie. Stagy, but very smart.
The ultimate monster truck rally! Ten dollars for the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge.
Why do you build me up, buttercup?
Just to let me down, and turn me around
And then worst of all, you never call, baby, when you say you will.
46: Here's one of the old Sunday, Sunday radio ads for a drag track from around my area, 1965. That prompted me to recall a year or so around that time when my friends and I collected drag race cards rather than baseball ones and bought all the mags--had forgotten that whole "thing." The track (and ads) I recall most vividly was Dragway 42 (still in operation)--and although the song is about something completely different, I'm sure it is where Chris Hynde got the name for the song "Dragway 42".
I should be able to be at the Rickhouse this Wednesday. When?
Did we actually decide on Rickhouse? I was going to vote for Bar Basic.
We didn't actually decide on anything.
Bar Basic has my vote too, fwiw. We also need: a time.
Huh. The SOMA perfection of 'private luxury, public squalor' doesn't do it for me, but OK.
4th and Brannan hardly qualifies as "squalor". Now, if we were going to one of the places at the old Mint plaza, OTOH...
It's probably going to be raining, though.
I hate a watery bloody mary. :(
Not quibbling with the particulars of 4th and Brannan, but it does seem to be the SOMA thing that you could come up immediately with someplace unspeakably squalid.
Have you *had* Little Skillet, nosflow? Ain't no way it's overpriced. (It's also not open for dinner.)
Overpriced chicken and waffles are just around the corner!
So, are the waffles reasonably priced, or does "overpriced" cover both food groups in this formation?
"Chicken and waffles" is a single food group.
The "negative connotation when anthropomorphized" group. Along with jell-o.
67: Hey, now. I resemble that remark.
Have you *had* Little Skillet, nosflow?
Yes.
Damn. Chicken and waffles sounded good.
Recommendations for dinner w/ a colleague tomorrow?
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If anybody's involved in a hackerspace and wants some money, my friend has a lot of it that he's trying to give away.
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I'll be there with my other half, whose usual nickname is the Dwarf Lord, but that's a bit much to ask people to use before they experience the basement. DL would be too open to misinterpretation. Huh.
70: I have lots of recommendations, but you should give us some basic criteria.
you should give us some basic criteria.
They should be willing to cook the pigeon to at least medium.
For one thing, who's paying?
Clew's 73 is a great examplar of the "Simultaneously too much and too little information" genre.
Oh man, I haven't been to Plouf in ages and ages. It was awesome back in the day, though.
Di should go to Flour + Water, and bring me, and not bring her colleague.
Ha, Robert. Context of 73 is 71 more than -- nearly every other thread in Unfogged and a lot of those in bOING bOING. Call it an intentional tease. If you were here, you'd know.
I can't parse the second sentence of 85 at all.
Shit, I have an event tonight I need to go to for jobseeking reasons. Have fun, everyone else.
Someone other than me is paying for dinner tomorrow -- probably the firm. Neb, I am tempted to take you up on the Flour + Water offer, if for no other reason than I trust you epicurean judgment implicitly. But that would probably make me a jerk vis-vis the colleague. Wah.
Also, you should all know that I could have had a $400 travel voucher had i let them bump me to a later flight. But I turned it down because it would have impeded meetup plans.
I may be a bit late--I am working in Mountain View today--but I will be there, eventually, for reasonable values of "eventually".
Anyone who does an eye-shot of vodka can win the $50 "Halford Prize."
Early liveblogging: the bar is almost empty. There's no food here; if you need a snack, grab one before you head over.
Okay, let me put some shoes on and head on over. If you want I should pick up a snack for you on the way, shoot me an email!
Josh, since no one is there and there's no food, it's the perfect time to do a vodka shot in your eye.
There's no food here
A hollow voice says "PLUGH".
More liveblogging: nosflow and I are discussing HBGary's failings. The bar is surprisingly free of RSA attendees.
It's really a little weird that I half-wish I was at RSA.
Josh, since no one is there and there's no food, it's the perfect time to do a vodka shot in your eye up your ass.
Which would presumably be for Science, in case it doesn't qualify for the Halford Prize...
(Thank goodness for liveblogging. I am a little afraid to be in the same room with you people.)
Update: Di and Otto and ladyfriend have arrived! Now we're debating who's been in grad school longer, nosflow or Otto.
I don't even know what "RSA" refers to.
102.last: This qualifies as a debate?
Otto has a ladyfriend? He's been keeping secrets from us. Bad otto!
102: combined, they've been in grad school longer than anybody.
(Okay, as if.)
104: Oh. Is the conference named for the algorithm?
108: the conference is named for the company, which is named for the algorithm, which is named for the people that started the company.
HBGary Federal doofus was originally (or at least at some point along the way) planning on dropping his phony Anonymous dox at RSA.
debating who's been in grad school longer
Not an argument you necessarily want to win.
$400 travel voucher had i let them bump me to a later flight. But I turned it down because it would have impeded meetup plans.
Now that's dedication.
Is it the same RSA that puts on that Slavoj Zizek cartoon show? I like that show.
The amount of comments from Josh is not commensurate with the time he spent fiddling with his phone.
Turns out the conversation was too sparkling to interrupt it for liveblogging. Thanks for showing up, everyone. San Francisco is awesome.
That follow up HBGary article Sifu linked to is very good. There should be more explanatory journalism like that.
Ah. It appears reservations have already been made at RN74 for this evening. God I love our San Francisco office.
Perhaps no one will see this, but, regarding the mention of Zeitgeist, latest forecasts have rainless skies tomorrow evening.
I just checked the forecast! I'm going to be peninsular on Friday and most of Saturday, and probably won't make it up to SF proper until Saturday evening or Sunday. It turns out that my schedule is going to be tricky (I'm leaving Monday), but I would love to visit, and I am, as always, bound and determined to drink. Those who join my determination could, if they would, e-mail me.
Further to 120, I think that Sunday evening also promises rainlessness, so I will probably head Zeitgeistward then.
116, etc.: Crap. The meetup was *this* week? When I saw a post dated 2/16 talking about how Di will be in town *next week*, I assumed the Wednesday in question was 2/23. Oh, well, I hope everyone had fun, and hope to meet Di some other time.
As it turns out, I couldn't have made it up to SF before 10-ish on 2/16, so probably no harm, no foul. I assume this was actually an earlier post that I missed which got bumped up on the day of the meetup. But it would have been nice if the update could have clarified the actual date.
122: Ah, shame. The discrepancy was due to the post being bumped up from the past.
But it would have been nice if the update could have clarified the actual date.
This is true—sorry.
119-21: The lesson here is that jms is better for the weather than am I.
Other lessons learned this trip:
RN74 is delicious, particularly on someone else's dime (though not, ultimately, *that* pricey). They also have super cool salt and pepper dispenser thingies.
The people in San Francisco are excellent -- both commentariat and colleagues.
Clew is very funny and laughs a lot. Her Dwarf Lord is very sweet.
Josh is kind of studly, and terribly charming.
Ben has a disarming smile and knows how to place a dinner order.
Otto and his ladyfriend are excellent both individually and as a set.
Certain people are concerned that Stanley's punning is becoming a problem and want to stage an intervention. Others wish to continue enabling his habit/addiction.
I may have no problem telling Leo that I'm hanging with strangers from the internet, but am still reticent to explain to colleagues who these people are I was out with Wednesday
I am a pretty fucking awesome lawyer.
Getting to the airport early in hopes of snagging an earlier flight is pretty stupid and squanders opportunities for naps and/or lunches with the locals.
I need to come back when i can stay a little longer.
I am a pretty fucking awesome lawyer.
That's a nice lesson.
The forecast for tonight has changed somewhat precipitously since yesterday.
