SPUG: Meet at amazon.com Pac-Med office?

[CJ Collier]

Here are some directions from a few weeks ago.  A basic sanity test
tells me that they are likely correct.

C.J.


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 13:05 -0700, Aaron W. West wrote:
> I'm sorry, but the right is on 8th Ave S, not 10th.
> 
> You can take 10th on the way back to the highway, but it's a one-way. 
> (You'll see 10th straight across from the end of the ramp when you get off 
> the exit, but can't go up it.)
> 
> Other routes I've taken include Denny St, L Boren, R 12th (but a long slow 
> drive on Boren in traffic)
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Aaron W. West" <tallpeak at hotmail.com>
> To: <spug-list at mail.pm.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:52 AM
> Subject: Re: SPUG: Meet at amazon.com Pac-Med office?
> 
> 
> The best route I found by car:
> 
> >From north:
> 
> I5-S, take the Dearborn exit.
> 
> At the end of the ramp, turn left to head west on Dearborn (under the bridge
> then down the hill).
> 
> Take the first right after the bridge, onto 10th ave S.
> 
> Go about three blocks to take the first non-dead-end right (King Street).
> 
> Take a right onto 12th. Follow up the hill, across the bridge, and take a
> right at the light (onto Charles Street), then park on the street and walk
> to the entrance.
> 
> As for taking the bus, unless you are on either the #60 or #36 routes,
> you'll need to transfer, so I usually found it a bit inconvenient to do and
> opted to drive. But use http://transit.metrokc.gov or
> http://tripplanner.metrokc.gov
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rizvi, Ali" <rizvi at amazon.com>
> To: "Andrew Sweger" <andrew at sweger.net>; "Seattle Perl Users Group"
> <spug-list at pm.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:03 AM
> Subject: RE: SPUG: Meet at amazon.com Pac-Med office?
> 
> 
> I think it would be awesome to have the meeting at Amazon. I am an amazonian
> and ofcourse, I am biased by my laziness to travel far but as far as I know
> Laziness is one of the virtues of a perl hacker. :-)
> 
> I am looking forward to attend the first meeting at PacMed soon.
> 
> Thanks for all the effort on the organizers part to make it happen.
> 
> Ali
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spug-list-bounces at mail.pm.org [mailto:spug-list-bounces at mail.pm.org]
> On Behalf Of Andrew Sweger
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:58 AM
> To: Seattle Perl Users Group
> Subject: SPUG: Meet at amazon.com Pac-Med office?
> 
> C.J. Collier, a longtime SPUG member and recent new hire at amazon.com, has
> done all the footwork to provide SPUG the opportunity to hold our monthly
> meetings in the A/V room at the amazon.com Pac-Med office (near the I-5 &
> I-90 interchange). The arrangement would be similar to the years we met at
> Safeco tower in the U-district (visitor sign-in, escort to meeting room).
> C.J. is offering to sponsor our group in meeting there and will be our
> representative (ambassador?) to the company (like Dora Choi was for Safeco).
> 
> So, what do folks think about this?
> 
> Some information I already know folks will need include: access from
> freeway, parking availability nearby, size of room, projector, Internet
> access, nearby food/drink establishments for pre- and post-meeting activity.
> C.J. will try to provide some of that when he has a chance. I'll work on
> gathering some of this information next week when I'm back in town. What
> else do folks need to know (as if the location wasn't enough)?
> 
> Discuss.
> 
> (We're tentatively lining things up to meet there for our 19 October
> meeting. We are still welcome to meet at Geospiza for the foreseeable
> future.)
> 
> --
> Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
>                                 things can go wrong at once.
> 
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