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Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
2009/9/15 Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>:
> Quoting Jimmy O'Regan (joregan@gmail.com): > >> I'll be in San Francisco for a couple of days next month (Google >> Mentor Summit). Will anyone else be around? > > Only all the time. > > Chez Moen is down about 60 km south of the city of San Francisco, > at the base of the San Francisco Peninsula, close to Stanford > University. I don't very often get to San Francisco, but certainly > can/will in order to rendezvous and spend time. >
With less than a week left, I just now took the time to look at a map
and see where I'll /really/ be; turns out it's Sunnyvale, which is
much closer to Stanford 
-- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.
Breen Mullins [breen.mullins at gmail.com]
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 15:57, Jimmy O'Regan <joregan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > With less than a week left, I just now took the time to look at a map > and see where I'll /really/ be; turns out it's Sunnyvale, which is > much closer to Stanford
So where/when will you be around?
-- Breen Mullins <breen.mullins@gmail.com>
Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
2009/10/17 Breen Mullins <breen.mullins@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 15:57, Jimmy O'Regan <joregan@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> With less than a week left, I just now took the time to look at a map >> and see where I'll /really/ be; turns out it's Sunnyvale, which is >> much closer to Stanford
From Friday morning to Monday morning; staying in Sunnyvale, and the
Google thing is Saturday and Sunday in Google HQ. I'm planning to go
pretty much straight from the airport to Golden Gate (too many people
have put it into my head that I have to go there), which'll probably
take up most of the day(?); we have a meet and greet thing at 5pm,
which from what I gather is dinner then drinking. (I'm not exactly the
poster boy for the temperance movement, which is why I'd like to get
Golden Gate out of the way first
-- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.
Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]
Quoting Jimmy O'Regan (joregan@gmail.com):
> With less than a week left, I just now took the time to look at a map > and see where I'll /really/ be; turns out it's Sunnyvale, which is > much closer to Stanford
/me checks, and is mildly astonished to note that he's sitting in front of a workstation in Sunnyvale -- not to be confused with Sunnydale, home of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and friends.[1]
[1] Except in the movie, where it was indeed Sunnyvale, occasioning much local amusement.
Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
2009/10/17 Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>:
> Quoting Jimmy O'Regan (joregan@gmail.com): > >> With less than a week left, I just now took the time to look at a map >> and see where I'll /really/ be; turns out it's Sunnyvale, which is >> much closer to Stanford
What a terrible movie... though it does have the best hammed up death
scene I've ever seen
-- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.
Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]
Quoting Jimmy O'Regan (joregan@gmail.com):
[Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1992 movie with Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry, and -- notably -- Paul Reubens.]
> What a terrible movie... though it does have the best hammed up death > scene I've ever seen
Just so.
The movie took Joss Whedon's original script and joked it up to the point that it was just high-"camp" -- to the author's disappointment, but he had no creative control. Some years later, he was able to get television funding for a series based on the same concept with creative control. The series was what is termed a "mid-season replacement", where one of the broadcast networks has cancelled something and seeks to fill in the vacancy in its schedule with a speculative offering from its "spare" efforts. Mid-season replacements have often been among the more wildly creative programmes, in consequence. (Of course, most such replacements fail quickly.)