Sam Ruby: Two Weeks Notice

You know this.

Assuming I have no other appointments booked by my social organizer, my wife Barb, :-) count me in!

I'll drive up from Vancouver!

Posted by Roland Tanglao at 17:03

Count me in.

Posted by Brent Simmons at 17:32

I will be there. Still trying to figure out my date of arrival though.

Posted by Miguel de Icaza at 17:38

If I can work it into my schedule, sure, I would be interested.

Posted by Rob McNair-Huff at 17:41

I am there...

Posted by Chris Kinsman at 17:57

Roland, surely that's "drive *down* from Vancouver"? Aren't you in BC?

I'm always up for a weblog gathering.

Posted by Anita Rowland at 18:19

Although a bystander to the explicit WebLog, I'd like to attend. (an older Frontier user)

Posted by Baiss Magnusson at 18:24

I'll be visiting Microsoft February 9 through 13 (and will be alone all day Sunday, February 9, so am looking to get something going that day).

Posted by Robert Scoble at 19:02

Awww, yeahhh

Posted by Joshua Allen at 19:25

I don't know you and you don't know me, but I'd be interested anyway.

Posted by Dan Hale at 19:30

I just might be in Seattle area that weekend, so even though you all also dont know me, I might be down for it. Ill drive up from Vancouver, yes UP, Vancouver, Wa not BC.

Posted by Jeff Knox at 20:56

This sounds like an interesting opportunity to meet other bloggers.

Got it marked in my PDA!

Posted by Kevin H. Devin at 22:10

Count me in. Here's why.

Posted by Ted Leung at 22:58

yes, anita, I am still in BC

not good with directions!

I will drive SOUTH from Vancouver, BC which I must concede is down on conventional maps with North at the top :-) !

Posted by Roland Tanglao at 23:05

OK, this is starting to get a little sad. It sounds like there are going to be more people getting together with you in Redmond than attend our regular RTP bloggers lunch.

Posted by Bruce Loebrich at 23:20

Count me in

Posted by Keith Ballinger at 23:22

Hey, I would love to join y'all. I am recovering from a two year blogging hiatus and would like to get to know the seattle scene better.

My first blog posts were in the summer of 2002 at www.civilution.com, we flirted briefly with some tools in the blog space before pursuing money in other places. Now I am playing with movable type and working on my second blog at blogs.onenw.org/carl

Cheers,

Posted by Carl Coryell-Martin at 23:28

I'm interested.

Posted by John Ludwig at 02:52

I'm interested.

Posted by Gary Burd at 03:25

I will definitely try to be there :)

Posted by Alexandre Rochette at 06:30

I would love to do this. Please keep me informed.

Posted by Joe Friend at 08:27

wow, this will work out swimmingly; where can we find a restaurant to seat 20+, though?

Posted by chris hollander at 13:31

I'm in. Sounds like it will be a crowded event :-)

Posted by David Weller at 14:23

I'll venture to the east side for that.

Posted by Eric Soroos at 18:44

I'd be interested, pending pinning down the final date. Though I'm having trouble coming up with somewhere on the east side (or Seattle for that matter) that would work for so many people.
Buca di Beppo ( http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/35707604 ) tends to work out OK for us when we're doing big gatherings. It can get a little pricey depending on how much wine is consumed.

Posted by Adam Vandenberg at 22:13

What if one of the MS bloggers sponsered the thing. We could hold it in one of the smaller MS cafeteria's or a large conference room and order Pagliaci Pizza! Very casual, but it would make it easy to talk. And, we can get pop for free. ;-)

Posted by Joe Friend at 00:57

Given the size (WOW!), casual makes a lot of sense to me. Just a random thought (I don't know the area well enough to know whether this makes sense or not, but here goes): how busy is a place like Crossroads Bellview likely to be on a weekday night in January? There are undoubtably better places to eat, but in a setting like this, people can come and go (and rearrange and mingle) as they please.

Posted by Sam Ruby at 11:39

Crossroads would work okay, I guess. It would probably be more noisy than at MS. When I worked at MS I went to Crossroads for lunch, but I've never been there in the evening.

Posted by Joe Friend at 15:42

Crossroads is a good food court, with enough flexible seating for almost any amount of people. I approve!

Posted by Anita Rowland at 16:29

Sam in Seattle

Sam Ruby will be in Seattle in two weeks. On an unrelated note I was in West Virginia last night....

Excerpt from Matt Croydon::postneo at 17:10

The Crossroads food court should be big enough although it may be difficult for everyone to sit together.

Perhaps we need dinner and some sort of mingle event afterwards?

Posted by Dare Obasanjo at 19:32

Wifi access points are another point in favor of Crossroads. There's an open access point near the chessboard and T-Mobile at the Starbucks.

Posted by Gary Burd at 20:52

Heck, this sounds like so much fun I may just have to fly out there from Charlotte for the 'event'.

Posted by Don Smith at 04:31

So, are we set on Crossroads? What time and what day? How about 6pm on Jan. 28?

Posted by Joe Friend at 15:20

Joe: date, time, and venue all are OK by me. Hopefully Dare or somebody else can come up with a nice post-dinner extra-curricular activity for us all to enjoy.

Posted by Sam Ruby at 15:46

'nother msft Blogger.

ladies and gentlemen, introducing Michael! plans are still up in the air, but perhaps you'de like to join...

Excerpt from Objective at 16:35

Somebody make sure to bring a digital camera for a photoblog...

Posted by Mike at 06:48

It's all Sam's fault.

As usual, it's Sam Ruby's fault. I've been meaning to put up a blog for a while now, and just got started on getting one bolted together using pyblosxom. But this morning Aggie told me that Sam is coming to town. Consider me pushed over the cliff......

Excerpt from Ted Leung on the air at 06:35

Crossroads is a really good idea; there is some great food (Good Pho, the only two places in Seattle that I know that have Dosa, Korean BBQ, etc.), configurable seating, two bookstores and a magazing rack with good techie magazine selection, starbucks, toy store, chess boards, etc. It's made for hanging out. I'll be there!

Posted by Joshua Allen at 06:48

Crossroads on Tuesday

Tuesday, the 28th of January, at or shortly after 6pm PST a bunch of ne'erdowells will decend on an unsuspecting Crossroads food court. This is totally adhoc - no invitation required. Consider yourself warned.... [more]

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at 15:12

sounds great, add another to the list.

Posted by Matt Williams at 15:17

I wish I could go to this Seattle weblogger dinner on January 28 that Sam Ruby is...

Excerpt from The Scobleizer Weblog at 09:36

Add me to the list too :)

Posted by Steve Makofsky at 15:06

There is a MSFT blogger dinner tonight. It should be fun. It seems like more and more people are blogging. There is also a shindig happening at Crossroads on Tues. I'll probably try to make it to that one also since it looks...

Excerpt from Joe Beda's EightyPercent.net at 13:35

Travel Plans

Monday, May 19th, Raleigh: TriJug Wednesday, May 21st, Redmond. Should we do another Crossroads thingie? Wednesday, May 28th, Boston, OSCom.... [more]

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at 15:55

I vote for another Crossroads get-together

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Excerpt from Tommy Williams at 20:35