[Phoenix-pm] Andy Lester to Phoenix for "Technical Debt" talk

[Scott Walters]

Ben,

Congraduations on the move here!  I think you emailed me about it 
a while ago and I can't remember if I responded... I'm often pummeled with
email during the day or please pardon me if I tagged it and then never got
back to it.  There's a technical publishing company here, and embeddedarm.com
(where a friend of mine works), and that's about it for tech jobs, so I'm
curious to hear what you came up with.  If you're working at embeddedarm.com,
tell Michael S. hi for me.  Now, as for places to eat, the pizza place on
the corner of Shea and Suguaro (behind the gas station) is good (family
owned); there's a cute sushi place on Suguaro (Sukora Inn, I think it is,
look for the little car dealership); the Italian place by Goodwill on 
Palasades is supposed to be completely authenticate and great but I haven't
gotten there yet; Jimmy's Crazy Greek isn't bad at all (off of Fountain
Hills Blvd going North out of town, east at the middleschool there); Denny's
is 24 hours which can be handy; and I'm quite often at Que Bueno which is
at the west end of Avenue of the Fountains west off of Sugauro.  All of
the other Italian places suck and there are legions of them.  Though I
guess that one by the fountain isn't bad.  And most of the other resturants
here are way overpriced and only passably good.  Though Caroline's is
supposed to be actually good for upscale stuff, even though upscale
dining here is a lark, for the most part.  The Radio Shack is by Bashas
on Palisades, there's a health food store on Avenue of the Fountains
(if you're into that sort of thing), and all of the bars are either 
parts of upscale, way overpriced resturants where the Martinis cost
$16 or else are redneck bars.  Sheriff Joe lives here and often has his 
men pull over *everyone* for *any* reason.  It's mostly old people here
and you'll notice that they run the political scene and ruin a lot of
us younger people's fun.

Cheers,
-scott

On  0, Ben Atkin <ben at benatkin.com> wrote:
> 
>    I'm in for $20 as well.
>    I just got a job in Fountain Hills and moved into a place in Fountain
>    Hills, only a mile and a half from work. When Scott originally sent
>    the e-mail I was living in Flagstaff and job hunting, so I didn't
>    commit for those two reasons...
>    BTW, when's the next meeting?
>    Ben
>    
>    On 7/1/06, Scott Walters <[1]scott at illogics.org> wrote:
>    
>      Hi Perl Mongers,
>      If we're willing to pay airfare, we can get well-known Perl
>      personalities as
>      speakers.  In the past, we've had Randal Schwartz out of luck and
>      Dan Sugalski
>      as part of the Perl 6 world tour, but if we get about 17 people to
>      pony up
>      $20, we can do fun things like this a lot more often.  Andy Lester
>      has already
>      offered to come out.  Andy Lester did a "Get out of Technical Debt"
>      talk at
>      YAPC.  There's a description at
>      [2]http://www.yapcchicago.org/the-schedule/monday/m-abstracts#em142
>      0 .
>      That's the talk we'd probably get.
>      Andy Lester wrote WWW::Mechanize and _Pro Perl Debugging_ for
>      APress.
>      Here's what I want:  Respond with a "me too" if you're willing to
>      commit a
>      $20 to flying in a speaker and Brock and I (hi Brock) will handle
>      the rest.
>      Consider asking your employer to sponser part of the cost, too --
>      especially
>      if an employer is willing to pay for hotel, we'll have a much more
>      attractive
>      proposition.
>      -scott
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> References
> 
>    1. mailto:scott at illogics.org
>    2. http://www.yapcchicago.org/the-schedule/monday/m-abstracts#em1420
>    3. mailto:Phoenix-pm at pm.org
>    4. http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm
>    5. mailto:ben at benatkin.com
>    6. http://www.benatkin.com/

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