http://www.myballard.com/forum/ A forum for the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard en Wed, 22 May 2013 03:32:16 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18919 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:22:15 +0000 Nora Bell 18919@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Was it a Hobbit sized single female? That would have been me. I just sat at the bar when I didn't see Gilman Girl or Reba, tossed back a kolsch and did some texting.<br /> Yeah, it'll work sometime. No worries. :-) </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18916 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:57:23 +0000 phoo 18916@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Did you sit at the bar? I did see a single female come in, but I was just getting my bill by then and I hate to make a nuisance of myself by pestering every single female that comes in. Also, she didn't seem to look like she was waiting for someone. It'll work sometime, I promise. :) </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18913 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:44:20 +0000 Nora Bell 18913@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Ack! Timing! I couldn't get there until about 5:30, didn't see anyone who looked like Reba or Gilman Girl (don't know what Phoo looks like) so I had a beer and left. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18908 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:57:03 +0000 phoo 18908@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Sorry I missed you guys! I stayed until about 5:30, but maybe another time. Sunday perhaps? </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18905 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:08:49 +0000 Gilman Girl 18905@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Running late, but still will stop by, sometime around 6:45 </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18898 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:37:56 +0000 phoo 18898@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>i'll be there at 4 because I am here now and the thrift store was a bust. I hate to try and park down here again. i'll kill as much time as possible before going in. I am on my phone which will run out of batts soon, so I may or may not see this forum again. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18876 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:55:14 +0000 Gilman Girl 18876@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>I'll be able to pop in, see ya later! </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18874 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:47:49 +0000 Reba 18874@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>SO what time at peoples? 5? Uh and I look like my picture. So feel free if you spot me to say hi since I dont know what you folks look like. (i'm at the tail end of a cold, so I'll be the one with the tissues) I feel fine, and seriously could use a beer! </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18853 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:41:21 +0000 Nora Bell 18853@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Hmmm. Just found out I need to be in Greenwood this afternoon so no thrift store shopping for me. Hope to be back on time to catch happy hour, though. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18843 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:04:02 +0000 phoo 18843@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Make sure to give every table those little plastic cards so they can replicate their own meals! </p> <p>I probably won't be hitting the thrift store until around 3:30 today, so anybody wanting onboard, let me know. Peoples will be shortly after that. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18842 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:55:32 +0000 BallardENTP 18842@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>phoo, I think if you go the Trek route then you've got to go old school trek--meaning, nerf food cubes. *That* I bet you could make. Just use the same substance of which Twinkies are made. Heck, just take a twinkie and a child's playdoh-form, and compress the entire thing into a cube. Delicious! </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18809 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:53:40 +0000 phoo 18809@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Alrighty, people's tomorrow it is. Does anyone want to go to the thrift store with me first?</p> <p>BallardENTP, have you considered cuisine much at Flynn's? I always thought it would be fun to have a genuine Star Trek bar. No, not beer coloured blue and sold as Romulan Ale, but original dishes that fit the vague specs given in various series'. Something spicy and vegetarian for Vulcan, spicy/bitterish hasparat, even (mostly as a joke) Gachk(sp). You can buy medical grade meal worms (which is what it's made of), though I couldn't speak to cost. Spring Wine, Tranja, etc, etc. I suppose that's definitely mixing sci fi genres, but man it would be fun to sit down and order some rachdageno(sp) or blood wine (not sure how to pull that one off yet). Even more fun to make it up!</p> <p>Reba, running is geeky? Next you'll tell me that purposefully consorting with the Day Star is geeky! </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18802 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:02:50 +0000 Reba 18802@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>I can geek out with a variety topics. Dr. Who &#38; other british tv, music, some computer stuff, dive bars, sewing, running, drinking. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18801 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:00:35 +0000 Nora Bell 18801@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Phoo - They are planning to put the Star Trek Experience in downtown Vegas somewhere. I don't know yet if Quarks will be brought back to life. I keep trying to re-create the Bolian Sunset at home.<br /> Yeah, I think I can geek out with a People's happy hour tomorrow. It is one of the best happy hours, food-wise.<br /> Don't worry, SunriseSunset, I'm a low tech '80's geek and only understand half of this thread myself. I'm very fluent in pinball and Dr. Who, though. :-) </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18798 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:35:57 +0000 Reba 18798@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>I may be down for a happy hour pint or two tomorrow night at peoples. I do have to head downtown afterwards by bus(going to a show at the showbox).. but it would be nice to meet some other ballard peeps. Specially ones that know obscure mike patton works. :) </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18795 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:27:17 +0000 phoo 18795@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Sunrise, if I make your eyes glaze over, feel free to make jokes! </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18793 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:24:05 +0000 SunriseSunset 18793@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>I am always willing to learn--and willing to be a part of entertaining. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18791 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:03:10 +0000 phoo 18791@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Reba, you rock. Peoples pub was da shit.</p> <p>Nora, I might be down for tomorrow too. And hellya I remember Quark's. I was there for a computer convention once and we all went on the star trek ride which bluescreened and the poor poor workers had to put up with us for a full 30 minutes waiting in a little room. We gave those guys so much crap and they never broke character. Respect.</p> <p>Sunrise, no worries. If you're remotely willing to learn, we're willing to entertain! I'll admit there was some geeking out, but entertaining stories are all equal.</p> <p>BallardENTP, thanks so much for the great company. Transcribing my speech was 1,000 times more fun thanks to you and Reba. Long live German food and Jumpman. Also, props to you for running things so well. I was surprised when I found out attendance numbers, since it runs as well as Defcon.</p> <p>Again Reba. Peoples Pub now has my undying and drunken gratitude. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18784 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:59:15 +0000 SunriseSunset 18784@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>What am I doing on this forum. I don't speak the language. I am a dinosaurus-bella-donefor-realio-trulio-little yellow dragon my arse. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18778 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:04:25 +0000 Nora Bell 18778@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>I'm up for anything tomorrow but tonight I'm too tired and cranky to be in the company of humans.<br /> Flynn's sounds like a wonderful place, btw. Does anyone else remember Quark's in Las Vegas? It was Disneyland for geeky drunks. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18776 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:53:45 +0000 phoo 18776@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Sounds good. I'll try to be there earlier, like 6ish. Anyone else is welcome to join. I'll be the boring one with the tablet and sheaf of papers. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18770 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:38:10 +0000 BallardENTP 18770@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>That pool table setup is pretty sweet! It's officially added to Flynn's. </p> <p>I could make People's around 6:30 or so. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18765 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:19:56 +0000 phoo 18765@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Well I have to admit, despite being at pax (and being worthy enough to get the paxpox), I am not a gamer. I am more of a HW geek. I did get to see the surface and action and got a few pics. It was all just demo stuff... no really useful apps yet, though it had some very serious potential. But which bar do YOU know that can shell out to have a Surface for every table?</p> <p>Oh for a "movie soundtrack" try Fantomas (the band). Would definitely be an eerie thing to play in the background at a bar.</p> <p>Did you see the crazy expensive pool table that had some of the effects you were talking about? It wasn't a Surface, it did it with a video projector and camera tracking. On the web, not pax.</p> <p>Anybody for People's Pub tonight during happy hour? A shame I missed bourbon night. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18764 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:12:29 +0000 BallardENTP 18764@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Yeah, we had Surface at PAX. I didn't get to see it myself, but I heard they built a custom app for sorting through the archives. Which sounds like a worthy goal. But I'm with you: they need better apps. Like an interactive D&#38;D battlemat with dynamic environmental and spell effects, a combat auto-calculator, and that senses figure location (and creates ripples where the dice hit the table). </p> <p>That'd be rad.</p> <p>And don't worry about too-loud music in the nerd cantina (hereafter named "Flynn's"). The mp3 player will be stocked purely with soundtracks, and decibels will always be at the "background-music-while-gaming" level. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18763 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:09:20 +0000 phoo 18763@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Thanks Reba, I somehow remembered that Old P did have wifi, though I didn't know how my brain came to think that. It must've created a mental tag everytime I walked by it and it beckoned "wifi" at me. :) Think I'll look up people's pub too. Now the challenge is whether I'm gonna get off my butt and walk down there. No car today.</p> <p>ETA: Oh man a german place! After my heart, reba! Now those are some happy hour specials that won't keep on giving the gluten gift long after I've eaten! Mmmmmm. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18762 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:06:19 +0000 phoo 18762@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>BTW, I know there are some hacker spaces about and there's Shorty's. Shorty's has nothing to eat but overpriced hotdogs, but has a mad amount of pinball machines. I know there are several hackerspaces in the area, but short of the black lodge (which isn't public), I haven't been. I'm not all that geeky anymore, except maybe when you get me amongst normals. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18761 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:03:39 +0000 Reba 18761@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Old P has wifi. As does peoples pub which has a much better happy hour imho (ie cheaper, better food and longer) </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18760 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:02:32 +0000 phoo 18760@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Oh baby, I got to see the microsoft surface and it was pretty sexy. Too bad they'll have it doing something boring and underpowered. None of the cool people can afford one (well, *maybe* Jeff Moss, but who knows how MS would feel about that and I'd still never see it). </p> <p>Wow, with that and everything else I'm definitely hanging out at your bar. But don't forget, one should be able to TALK at the bar and not scream over the music. I keep trying to like Tin hat, being drawn in by the pinball machines but being driven out by the loud music. </p> <p>Don't forget Colossus and Sneakers in your nerd movies. :)</p> <p>What if I took the wifi out as a qualifier? Really, it's a speech I need to work on, so I don't really *need* wifi, I just like having IRC as often as possible. :) I can always run it off my phone. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18757 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:54:09 +0000 BallardENTP 18757@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Old P is worth a shot, though I don't know if they have wifi. Honestly I don't know if such a place exists, phoo, but it sounds dreamy. Sigh. One day I'll get together with like-minded partners and create a nerd bar. I mean, nerd tavern. I mean, nerd cantina.</p> <p>Gourmet tots, pizza, and even a few actual tasty + healthy options. Amazing beers (including Smithwyck's and Spaten Optimator) and spirits (including Oban scotch and Absinthe). Wifi. MS Surface. Power outlets in every booth. Monday Night Magic sealed-deck tournaments. Tuesday trivia night. Wednesday DS night. Pinball. Retro coinop pac-man, dig-dug, and galaga tables. Big screens showing nerd movies (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) and shows (Firefly, BSG, Dr. Who); MST3k commentary allowed and encouraged. A library of classic board games. Happy Hour specials that include not only food and drink, but 1/2 price dice and booster packs--but only if you beat the bartender on a d20 roll. Baseball hats, and using "bro" in a non-ironic manner, prohibited.</p> <p>One day... </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18753 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:19:31 +0000 phoo 18753@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>What if we do the thrift store tomorrow and the booze tonight? What's a good place that is cheapish, has good grub, good spirits AND wifi and doesn't mind me hanging out with laptop? Yeah, I don't ask for much. :D </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18751 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:12:29 +0000 Gilman Girl 18751@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Me three! </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18750 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:11:40 +0000 Nora Bell 18750@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Likewise. Which is really sad because I love thrift stores and booze. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18749 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:09:55 +0000 phoo 18749@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Very strange, I got a double post. Deleted. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18748 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:09:54 +0000 phoo 18748@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>tomorrow? Earlier in the day? </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18747 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:04:25 +0000 Gilman Girl 18747@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Jeepers.<br /> Usually I could make this, but not today. :( </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=2169#post-18745 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:38:23 +0000 phoo 18745@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Per my usual MO, I am posting last minute (thrift store closes at 4:30 and I'm probably walking from 65th) to see if anyone would like to join me on a thrift store quest. Afterwards I was thinking of trying out old peculiar or a place that can feed strange diet me. Anyone up for it? Tomorrow is possible, but i won't have evening time so much then to go out after.</p> <p>BTW, do they have wifi and spirits? cause maybe I'll just hang out there and work on my laptop and have folks show up or not. Is there a better wifi and spirits place with an awesome happy hour? </p>