{"id":4680,"date":"2007-08-23T08:35:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4680"},"modified":"2007-08-24T12:41:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T17:41:35","slug":"countdown_to_sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/countdown_to_sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to SF:  T-Minus 3 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a title=\"NYC Meetup Wrapup (8\/20\/2007)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004673.html\" >a very well attended<\/a> meetup in NYC, the <a title=\"Sepia Mutiny Eastside \/ Westside Road Tour (7\/27\/2007)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004607.html\" >Meetup Road Tour <\/a>makes its way to San Francisco this weekend. <\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p><\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p><\/p>\n\n<p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" borderColor=#cccccc cellspacing=0 cellpadding=10 bgColor=#ffffff border=1  hspace=\"10\">\n<TBODY >\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\" >\n<td width=200 ><STRONG >Sunday, August 26<\/strong><\/td>\n<td ><STRONG >San Francisco<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\" >\n<td >\n<p>3pm &#8212; ???<\/p>\n<p><STRONG ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/uzqUJiCHUqV2c3PnvSsqeQ#hrid:_k4xMHUqO6Tp1A6sHtPa2A\/query:cafe%20greco\" >Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Greco<\/a><BR ><\/strong>(A N N A&#8217;s favorite!)<\/p>\n<p>423 Columbus Ave <BR >San Francisco, CA 94133 <BR >(415) 397-6261<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<td width=300 >\n<CENTER ><img class=picture height=185 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/grecomap_1.gif\" width=270 border=0  ><\/center><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n\n<p><STRIKE >Parking&#8217;s a pain in North Beach but<\/strike>, <a href=\"http:\/\/brimful.blogspot.com\/\" >Brimful<\/a> (bless her soul) pointed out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/cIeZEdeyRhlR_10muYgbyQ\" >a nearby parking garage<\/a> for the folks driving in.  Other places to find a spot include the many garages in Union Square and \/ or street parking in SOMA \/ Fin District.   From there, it&#8217;s easy to walk \/ taxi \/ cable car it over. It ain&#8217;t that far.<\/p>\n\n<p>Incorporating some cues \/ <a title=\"NYC Meetup Wrapup (8\/20\/2007)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004673.html#comments\" >feedback from NYC<\/a>, we&#8217;re going to experiment a bit with the format of the SF meetup&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n\n<table id=rp_picture_table style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-top: 10px; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0\" >\n<TBODY >\n<tr style=\"padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" >\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" ><img class=picture height=300 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/txt_1.jpg\" width=215 border=0  ><\/td><\/tr>\n<tr style=\"padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" >\n<td class=caption style=\"padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; width: 215px; padding-top: 0px\" >\n<p class=caption-text style=\"font-size: 80%; margin: 3px 5px; line-height: 110%\" >Desi Boyz in SF apparently need a lot of dating advice. That topic will surely come up&#8230;<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n\n<p>A few highlights &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<ul >\n<li ><STRONG >Location <\/strong>&#8212; SF&#8217;s meetup is going to be at a relatively good sized coffee house with a far more open layout \n<li ><STRONG >Time<\/strong> &#8212; The meetup will be on a lazy Sunday afternoon; our contention for the space (if any) will more likely be against random North Beach tourists vs. focused, club-clad New Yorkers \n<li ><STRONG >Nametags<\/strong> &#8212; I&#8217;ll be distributing &#8217;em and you folks will decorate &#8217;em with your RealNames and\/or Handles ; a nametag in a coffee house isn&#8217;t quite the dorkbadge that one would be at an NYC bar. \n<li ><STRONG >Intros<\/strong> &#8212; After badging in, we&#8217;ll announce the new folk&#8217;s presence and get &#8217;em to toss up a tidbit or 2 of introductory trivia \n<li ><STRONG >Discussion<\/strong>&#8212; Expect some focused discussion of the more fun, recent SM posts including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004609.html\" >1000commentMonster<\/a> (there were few commentors who had, uh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004609.html#comment153588\" >interesting<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004609.html#comment153616\" >opinions<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004609.html#comment153620\" >on<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004609.html#comment153796\" >the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004609.html#comment153806\" >SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004609.html#comment153807\" >scene<\/a> that I&#8217;m hoping to meet). It shouldn&#8217;t be anything too intense, just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/2007_08.html\" >scan the past couple<\/a> of weeks of posts and hopefully a few will pique your interest enough to be Sepia literate&#8230;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>Of course, above all we&#8217;ll just try to have fun with our fellow geeks-in-arms. And don&#8217;t worry, if the structure starts getting oppressive, we&#8217;ll quickly abandon it and resume old fashioned small talk.  Desi&#8217;s know small talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a very well attended meetup in NYC, the Meetup Road Tour makes its way to San Francisco this weekend. Sunday, August 26 San Francisco 3pm &#8212; ??? Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Greco(A N N A&#8217;s favorite!) 423 Columbus Ave San Francisco, CA &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/countdown_to_sf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}