[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Awesome meeting tonite....and found items

[Thomas Lockney]

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> I haven't been to one yet, but I plan to. My desiderata:
>
> 1. I work downtown and live on the West side, so anything much east of 
> the Lucky Lab isn't convenient. In fact, Vendetta is really too far 
> for me.
Yeah, this has been a tough one. There seems to be an even mix of east 
and west-siders, but unfortunately more of the east-siders seem to be 
bike riders, too, so I've tended to lean that way as far as meetings. 
That said, I think a downtown location would be easiest overall.
> 2. I don't drink beer (although I love it -- it's a med interaction 
> thing) so it doesn't need to have beer.
Well, the biweekly events were really started as a way to hang out and 
have fun with less formality than an "organized" event (even though it's 
hard to say they aren't somewhat organized at this point). Naturally 
that leads most of us towards wanting to make absolutely sure they DO 
have beer. In fact, one of the criticisms about us doing the meetings at 
the Lucky Lab was that they didn't have hard liquor -- some members of 
the group are so damn picky. ;~)
> 3. Smoke-free is pretty much mandatory for me. I had to give up 
> karaoke because I couldn't find a smoke-free place.
100% agreed.

~thomas