[Phoenix-pm] In town Sun, Mon

Michael Friedman friedman at highwire.stanford.edu
Mon Jul 31 15:46:50 PDT 2006


Time to catch up, Scott. :-)
Current plan is Steve's Espresso tonight @ 7 pm.

Can you make that?
-- Mike

On Jul 31, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Scott Walters wrote:

> Yikes... my Tuesday is rather decisively taken =(  And it *wasn't*  
> next
> week like I thought maybe for a bit there.  D'oh!
>
> Well, how far are you from Shea?  If you aren't far from here
> (16231 E Balsam Dr, Fountain Hills, AZ 85268) I'll encourage you to  
> pop
> by and hang out.
>
> -scott
>
> On  0, Michael Friedman <friedman at highwire.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> Well, I do have a car, there's no need for using my hotel room. (For
>> another thing, my wife and toddler are here, one of whom has an 8 pm
>> bedtime.)
>>
>> Also, given the lateness of today, I'm inclined to meet tomorrow
>> instead. (It turns out I can do Tuesday night too.) Anywhere within a
>> half-hour of downtown Scottsdale would be fine. Mill's End is great,
>> since I already know where that is. I just discovered today that my
>> former favorite cafe, Romancing the Bean, is no longer in North
>> Scottsdale, they're now in the giant construction zone on Rio Salado
>> in Tempe... and only open until 5 pm, so that won't work.
>>
>> So, unless anyone has a better idea, how about?
>>
>> Time: Tuesday 8/1  8:00 pm
>> Location: Mill's End (or other suitable juncture)
>> Topic: conversation, random perl talk
>>
>> Although I've always been curious as to how Scott lives...
>>
>> -- Mike
>>
>> On Jul 31, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Scott Walters wrote:
>>
>>> I'm inclined to declare an emergency meeting at the first Dennys- 
>>> scale
>>> resturant without walking distance of Michael... I don't think I
>>> actually
>>> caught up on this conversation.  My attempt to go back in my spool
>>> a bit
>>> got me distracted for several hours with *other* things that needed
>>> attention (curses!) and now I'm afraid to try again.  Or if Michael
>>> has
>>> a car and wants to take no risk of having a boring evening alone, I
>>> can declare the meeting to be at da house.
>>>
>>> I should also note that Michael's last talk about technology and
>>> automation and how they were processing abstracts with Perl at
>>> Highwire Press was intriguing went over quite well.  But that was
>>> right after Slashdot ran a story about how Google was VICIOUSLY
>>> ATTACKING academic publishing houses like Highwire, which Michael
>>> found laughable.
>>>
>>> Anyway.  Thoughts?  Should we just go to Michael's hotel room, or
>>> should Michael just go to da house?  (I can't call it "my house",
>>> because it is of course Heather's).
>>>
>>> -scott
>>>
>>> On  0, Michael Friedman <friedman at highwire.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>>> Only one response? Could more people make Monday?
>>>>
>>>> -- Mike
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 29, 2006, at 9:29 AM, Oyler, Nathan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Provided all goes well today and I get my brakes fixed, I'm in for
>>>>> a sunday get together
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: phoenix-pm-bounces+nathan.oyler=sap.com at pm.org <phoenix-pm-
>>>>> bounces+nathan.oyler=sap.com at pm.org>
>>>>> To: Phoenix.pm <Phoenix-pm at pm.org>
>>>>> Sent: Sat Jul 29 08:57:02 2006
>>>>> Subject: [Phoenix-pm] In town Sun, Mon
>>>>>
>>>>> Fellow Perl Mongers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for the late notice, but I'm actually in town this weekend!
>>>>> Would anyone like to get together for a social meeting Sunday or
>>>>> Monday night?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm staying in downtown Scottsdale, but can drive anywhere on the
>>>>> East Side to downtown Phoenix. Anyone have a suggestion for a
>>>>> convenient place?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd love to see everyone again if possible. If there is  
>>>>> interest, I
>>>>> could present some of the XML stuff I've been working on (high- 
>>>>> level
>>>>> design, not Perl specific) or talk about reference linking for
>>>>> journal articles using Perl and a database. I'd also love to hear
>>>>> about ICFP and OSCON and just catch up with y'all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope to see everyone soon,
>>>>> -- Mike
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>>> --
>>>>> -
>>>>> Michael Friedman                     HighWire Press
>>>>> Phone: 650-725-1974                  Stanford University
>>>>> FAX:   270-721-8034
>>>>> <friedman at highwire.stanford.edu>
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>>> --
>>>>> -
>>>>>
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>>>> FAX:   270-721-8034                   
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>> Michael Friedman                     HighWire Press
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>> FAX:   270-721-8034                  <friedman at highwire.stanford.edu>
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