Two Weeks Notice
In two weeks, it looks like I'll be in the Redmond Washington area
(for a visit... don't get all excited now
).
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Any bloggers in the area up for a dinner that week?
Assuming I have no other appointments booked by my social organizer, my wife Barb, :-) count me in!
I'll drive up from Vancouver!
Posted by Roland Tanglao at
Roland, surely that's "drive *down* from Vancouver"? Aren't you in BC?
I'm always up for a weblog gathering.
Posted by Anita Rowland at
Although a bystander to the explicit WebLog, I'd like to attend. (an older Frontier user)
Posted by Baiss Magnusson at
I'll be visiting Microsoft February 9 through 13 (and will be alone all day Sunday, February 9, so am looking to get something going that day).
Posted by Robert Scoble at
I just might be in Seattle area that weekend, so even though you all also dont know me, I might be down for it. Ill drive up from Vancouver, yes UP, Vancouver, Wa not BC.
Posted by Jeff Knox at
This sounds like an interesting opportunity to meet other bloggers.
Got it marked in my PDA!
Posted by Kevin H. Devin at
yes, anita, I am still in BC
not good with directions!
I will drive SOUTH from Vancouver, BC which I must concede is down on conventional maps with North at the top :-) !
Posted by Roland Tanglao at
OK, this is starting to get a little sad. It sounds like there are going to be more people getting together with you in Redmond than attend our regular RTP bloggers lunch.
Posted by Bruce Loebrich at
Hey, I would love to join y'all. I am recovering from a two year blogging hiatus and would like to get to know the seattle scene better.
My first blog posts were in the summer of 2002 at www.civilution.com, we flirted briefly with some tools in the blog space before pursuing money in other places. Now I am playing with movable type and working on my second blog at blogs.onenw.org/carl
Cheers,
Posted by Carl Coryell-Martin at
wow, this will work out swimmingly; where can we find a restaurant to seat 20+, though?
Posted by chris hollander at
I'd be interested, pending pinning down the final date. Though I'm having trouble coming up with somewhere on the east side (or Seattle for that matter) that would work for so many people.
Buca di Beppo ( http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/35707604 ) tends to work out OK for us when we're doing big gatherings. It can get a little pricey depending on how much wine is consumed.
Posted by Adam Vandenberg at
What if one of the MS bloggers sponsered the thing. We could hold it in one of the smaller MS cafeteria's or a large conference room and order Pagliaci Pizza! Very casual, but it would make it easy to talk. And, we can get pop for free. ;-)
Posted by Joe Friend at
Given the size (WOW!), casual makes a lot of sense to me. Just a random thought (I don't know the area well enough to know whether this makes sense or not, but here goes): how busy is a place like Crossroads Bellview likely to be on a weekday night in January? There are undoubtably better places to eat, but in a setting like this, people can come and go (and rearrange and mingle) as they please.
Posted by Sam Ruby at
Crossroads would work okay, I guess. It would probably be more noisy than at MS. When I worked at MS I went to Crossroads for lunch, but I've never been there in the evening.
Posted by Joe Friend at
Crossroads is a good food court, with enough flexible seating for almost any amount of people. I approve!
Posted by Anita Rowland at
Sam in Seattle
Sam Ruby will be in Seattle in two weeks. On an unrelated note I was in West Virginia last night....Excerpt from Matt Croydon::postneo at
The Crossroads food court should be big enough although it may be difficult for everyone to sit together.
Perhaps we need dinner and some sort of mingle event afterwards?
Posted by Dare Obasanjo at
Wifi access points are another point in favor of Crossroads. There's an open access point near the chessboard and T-Mobile at the Starbucks.
Posted by Gary Burd at
Heck, this sounds like so much fun I may just have to fly out there from Charlotte for the 'event'.
Posted by Don Smith at
So, are we set on Crossroads? What time and what day? How about 6pm on Jan. 28?
Posted by Joe Friend at
Joe: date, time, and venue all are OK by me. Hopefully Dare or somebody else can come up with a nice post-dinner extra-curricular activity for us all to enjoy.
Posted by Sam Ruby at
'nother msft Blogger.
ladies and gentlemen, introducing Michael! plans are still up in the air, but perhaps you'de like to join...Excerpt from Objective at
It's all Sam's fault.
As usual, it's Sam Ruby's fault. I've been meaning to put up a blog for a while now, and just got started on getting one bolted together using pyblosxom. But this morning Aggie told me that Sam is coming to town. Consider me pushed over the cliff......Excerpt from Ted Leung on the air at
Crossroads is a really good idea; there is some great food (Good Pho, the only two places in Seattle that I know that have Dosa, Korean BBQ, etc.), configurable seating, two bookstores and a magazing rack with good techie magazine selection, starbucks, toy store, chess boards, etc. It's made for hanging out. I'll be there!
Posted by Joshua Allen at
Crossroads on Tuesday
Tuesday, the 28th of January, at or shortly after 6pm PST a bunch of ne'erdowells will decend on an unsuspecting Crossroads food court. This is totally adhoc - no invitation required. Consider yourself warned.... [more]Trackback from Sam Ruby at
I wish I could go to this Seattle weblogger dinner on January 28 that Sam Ruby is...
Excerpt from The Scobleizer Weblog at
There is a MSFT blogger dinner tonight. It should be fun. It seems like more and more people are blogging. There is also a shindig happening at Crossroads on Tues. I'll probably try to make it to that one also since it looks...
Excerpt from Joe Beda's EightyPercent.net at
Travel Plans
Monday, May 19th, Raleigh: TriJug Wednesday, May 21st, Redmond. Should we do another Crossroads thingie? Wednesday, May 28th, Boston, OSCom.... [more]Trackback from Sam Ruby at
I vote for another Crossroads get-together
Sam Ruby will be in Redmond again on the 21st of this month...To see more, visit the permalink in your browser or get a news aggregator that supports xhtml:body...Excerpt from Tommy Williams at
Sam Ruby: Two Weeks Notice for Seattle Blogger dinner
(SOURCE:"scripting news")- I am so there assuming I have no other social engagements!... [more]Trackback from Roland Tanglao's Weblog at
You know this.
Posted by Dare Obasanjo at