<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Short version:<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Starting Monday, Feb 11, 6:30AM,</div><div>for 10 weeks,</div><div>at the Same Ol' Caribou Coffee (at the NW corner of LaSalle and Lake)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Long version:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>It's Friday. You're looking forward to the weekend, where you will sit back and relax.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>But don't you have a patch you're working on for Perl6? Isn't your blog comment system still screwed up? How about that business idea that really should only need a couple days' worth of coding, but that you just haven't gotten around to?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>That, my friends, is what TechCoffee is for. A few hours of productivity, once a week.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Why are you productive at TechCoffee? Because everyone there is working, and there's power in numbers. It's like a quilting bee, or a running club. Only for coders.</div><div><br></div><div>Because we work at the productive hours of the day, before the coding life has been drained out of you by a workday of meetings and drudgery.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Are you ready? Okay.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Show up to the Caribou Coffee at LaSalle and Lake (conveniently located near *every* L line) at 6:30AM Monday morning. Once you're there, code. Promise someone that you'll be there the following Monday. Repeat.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Or, if you're feeling advanced, remember that the season goes for ten weeks. Plan milestones. Get all project-managerish. Make a chart. Just remember to code, too.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I promise y'all that i'll be there Monday morning, 6:30AM. I'll bring a power strip, too. And i'm gonna code.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-johnnnnnnnn</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>ps- Check <a href="http://techcoffee.com/">http://techcoffee.com/</a> for more info (well, actually, for pretty much the same info).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>pps- This is the location:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=200+N+Lasalle,+Chicago,+il&sll=41.88549,-87.632468&sspn=0.014266,0.010643&ie=UTF8&ll=41.884659,-87.632425&spn=0.014266,0.010643&z=16&om=0">http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=200+N+Lasalle,+Chicago,+il&sll=41.88549,-87.632468&sspn=0.014266,0.010643&ie=UTF8&ll=41.884659,-87.632425&spn=0.014266,0.010643&z=16&om=0</a></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div></body></html>