Arrived in Sunnyvale, CA

[netmouse]

I am on the ground at the Wild Palms hotel for Scifoo and about to walk to lunch with some folks I met in the lobby. Will post more later.

Highlight of flight was showing off my iPhone to my seat neighbor, a fellow who worked for the telephone company as an engineer before he retired 35 years ago. Also did some reading on Learning Python.

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[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Is Sunnyvale anywhere near Sunnydale?

[ckd]

Woo Python!

(Seriously, one of the best things about my new job is that other[1] people here use Python instead of Perl for writing tools; I was using mostly Perl for over a decade, and I'm so happy to have switched a few years back.)

[1] I used Python, and a couple other folks did, but most of the people I was supporting were using either Perl or Java. Some people used Java for simple text manipulations that should have been done in three lines of Perl or six lines of Python....

[taldarhan.livejournal.com]

I am such a noob ... I thought you meant Monty ...

[ckd]

Well, that is the source of the name; the standard Python metasyntactic variables aren't foo and bar, but rather spam and eggs.

[holyhippie]

Having lived in Sunnyvale ... maybe, kinda. It's kinda plausible that you could say that Sunnydale is a fictionalized Sunnyvale. Except, that I always saw Sunnydale as a stand-alone city, rather than just another suburb in the sprawling San Francisco - San Jose - Oakland metro area.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Hey! I completley missed this post earlier in the day. You're very close by! How long are you going to be in town for?

[stardustgirl.livejournal.com]

Sunnyvale? Give the El Pollo Loco on El Camino my love, and/or have some of that chicken for me. :-D Are you going to shop in the Apple company store while you're in that neck o' the woods? I'd also recommend the Tech Museum in San Jose if it's still around (it's been a bit since I've been out that way).

Strange factoid: in 1998 a guy with a foot fetish was working in the convenience mart near the El Pollo.

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

just until v early Monday. Planning to dine in San Fran with a couple friends for dinner. You guys free to join us?

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

that would be Sunday, btw

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Sunday night? Hm, we were vaguely planning on going to the beach on sunday morning, but our evening plans are un-set. When and where?

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

I was thinking meet at Belden place ( belden and Montgomery) around 6 and pick a particular restaurant from there. My number is 734-649-4534 pls txt me yours. :)

Hope you can join us!

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

Hey! it was great seeing you guys! What's Miranda's LJ?

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

Didn't really end up wandering around San Jose or Sunnyvale, just the google campus and then a trip into San Fran to have dinner and drinks with friends. Thanks for the recommendations though!

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Likewise! She's over here: missionista