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