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June 12, 2007

Dave's

After the Apple Design Awards were over around 8:30, I adventured out to find Dave's. My directions were "on 3rd across from the Westin". I knew how to get to 3rd, but I had no idea where the Westin was - until I remembered that I saw a "Westin" access point show up on the wi-fi list in my hotel room, so figured the Westin must be near the Marriott, only on 3rd. After a few minutes, there it was. Daves was very neat - a great little pub-in-the-wall. Sadly, there were no drunken Mac developers - apparently they don't start to trickle in until after 10:30pm.

Unfortunately, I have a mountain of email - I officially started my new job on Friday and by Monday I was on all the aliases and BLAMMO – the full storm of end of year review, end of year business planning, and day to day issues hit my inbox. So after having a beer, I had to sadly depart (I just got back to my hotel room a minute ago). John & Shawn – the bartender there (a very nice lady but I didn’t get her name) says you are a good group. She did her best to estimate the size of your gang(*) and I bought you guys a round. Enjoy.

(*) As a side thing to ponder, what is the right word to use for a collection of developers at a bar? Gang? Gaggle? Herd? Pod? Colony? Flock? Coallition? Mob? Muster? Brace? Swarm? Convocation? Horde? Troop? School? Dray? Crash? I have no idea. Annnnnnnyhow, back to email. Happy happy joy joy.

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Dave's is a great little place.

And when the geeks go there, the bartender loves us - we drink a lot, tip fairly well, aren't too noisy and don't get into fights. Perfect crowd for a bar. :)

Unfortunately, I'm not in SF for WWDC (Way too geeky for me) but I look forward to "your people" setting up an interview for me with you - and, unlike developers, when we meet at Macworld SF 2008, *I'll* buy. :)

I think a group of developers could be called a "hack". :)

Posted by: Shawn King | June 13, 2007 7:30 AM

Heh...Craig, you friggin' rock, and in this case it wasn't "Shawn" it was "Schoun" pronounced "Shawn".


Dude, that was so full of Teh Awesome

Posted by: John C. Welch | June 13, 2007 8:33 AM

Thanks John - my pleasure!

Now that's a funny coincidence - that the bartender said she remembered the name "Shawn" (Schoun) and there was a Shawn commenting on my blog about Dave's.

Posted by: Craig Eisler | June 13, 2007 8:49 AM

LOL I'm Shawn King, host of Your Mac Life. The "other Shawn" is Schoun Regan, IT Genius.

If you ever see us together, you'll know how funny mixing us up is. :)

Posted by: Shawn King | June 13, 2007 9:46 AM

I'd go with "a loop of programmers", but 'brace' is inspired, too.

Posted by: Olof | June 19, 2007 12:35 AM

I didn't make it to Dave's but heard about it after. Too bad for me.

ISTM that would be a curly brace of developers...?

Posted by: Dan O'Donnell | June 20, 2007 1:46 PM

WWDC Day 2 Begins

Okay, I'm a slacker - I haven't left my hotel room yet. I have two good excuses - first is that I am going to check out the graphics & imaging tracks today, and they don't start until 10:30. The second is that I installed Leopard on my Macbook this morning. I'm posting from it right now, in fact - when I'm not randomly switching between spaces just because it looks cool. I'm listening to the Stevenote playing in a separate space - spiffy!

Mr. Welch - by the time my day was done yesterday, I couldn't find anyone that could tell me where Dave's was - I missed out on the rounds of Diet Cokes. My apologies. I plead multiple counts of ignorance as my defense. Anyway, off to WWDC Day 2!

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How are you finding the beta?

Posted by: Jamie | June 12, 2007 1:07 PM

"I couldn't find anyone that could tell me where Dave's was..."

If they don't know where Dave's is, you're hanging out with the wrong crowd. :)

As for buying "Diet Cokes", you have a reputation, as a fellow Canadian, to at least set those deadbeat, mooching developers up with a round. Dave's conveniently lets you buy ahead of time so you don't actually have to be there to buy.

You're welcome. :)

Posted by: Shawn King | June 12, 2007 2:29 PM

That's okay Craig. It's on Third, across the street from the Westin, which used to be the Argent.

You can make it up tonight after Stump :-P

Posted by: John C. Welch | June 12, 2007 2:51 PM

Okay, well now I know where it is, that's a start :-). And thanks to Shawn, I now know that I can pay in advance. I'm not sure I wanted to know that :-)

And for Jamie, I can't say anything about it really because we're all under NDA, but I will say that I used the beta all today and it was great.

Posted by: Craig Eisler | June 12, 2007 6:26 PM

"I now know that I can pay in advance"

Think of it this way - if you pay in advance, you won't actually have to hang out with "those people". :)

"I will say that I used the beta all today and it was great."

Craig, I think you'll find that if you read that Apple NDA you'll find that you can't even admit that you *have* the beta, let alone talk about it. :)

Posted by: Shawn King | June 12, 2007 6:31 PM