Quoting <Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
6:30pm Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 2020-02-18 Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94105-3704 1-415-546-4999 http://henryshunan.com/ Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking Trip planning: http://www.511.org/
Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced.
FYI, http://henryshunan.com/ now links to a blog by a "Henry Shunan" rather than to the intended Henry's Hunan Restaurant in SF :-| It's ultimately up to the BALUG organizer(s) of course, but could/should perhaps the above Henry's Hunan link be changed to something like https://www.yelp.com/biz/henrys-hunan-restaurant-san-francisco (??)
-A --
Robert, I just don't myself think that the particular discussion topic at this week's BALUG meeting is *primarily* intended for those less-sysadminy, relatively new Linux newcomers like yourself. A better Linux event to drop by to in SF, IMHO, is SF-LUG's actual first-Sunday-of-the-month meeting.
Also, and not at all to scare you off, while its extremely unlikely that this will _in any way whatsoever_ affect Tuesday evening's BALUG dinner at Henry's Hunan Restaurant should you decide to attend it anyway -- with the restaurant's delicious and reasonably priced Hunan chicken dishes -- there _have_ been reports by Chinese authorities within just the last two weeks or so confirming a highly pathogenic strain of the H5N1 bird flu in Henry's Hunan province. "Hunan is about 400 km south of Hubei province that has the city of Wuhan, which is the epicentre of coronavirus." (https://theprint.in/health/coronavirus-hit-china-now-reports-h5n1-outbreak-i... )
FYI, an excellent web-resource for 95percent-plus Linux events is Rick Moen's Bay Area Linux Events site http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ (the one notable not-just-Linux-or-FOSS exception might be Rick's relatively recent listings for Tom's Berkeley Pi Meeting group http://linuxmafia.com/bale/#berkeleypi) Besides SF-LUG's once-a-month meeting, I'd suggest your also looking into some of the outlier locations for their bona fide _Linux_ end-user support and feedback for those relatively new to installing + using Linux, e.g., BerkeleyLUG, the Diablo Valley Linux User Group (DVLUG), the East Bay Linux User Group (EBLUG), and maybe one or two other regional Linux User Groups. -----
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 10:10:33PM +0000, aaronco36 wrote:
Quoting <Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
6:30pm Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 2020-02-18 Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94105-3704 1-415-546-4999 http://henryshunan.com/ Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking Trip planning: http://www.511.org/
Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced.
FYI, http://henryshunan.com/ now links to a blog by a "Henry Shunan" rather than to the intended Henry's Hunan Restaurant in SF :-|
That's unfortunate.
Also, and not at all to scare you off,
This part is flat-out xenophobic scare-mongering. Stop it.
Best, David.
Quoting David Fetter (david@fetter.org):
This part is flat-out xenophobic scare-mongering. Stop it.
Applaud your sentiment, David, but I'd also speculate offhand (could be mistaken) that the author of the cited passage was someone other than Aaron C. Just something about the whitespace content suggests it was (my guess) a leftover from someone _else's_ e-mail conversation.
Speaking as a kid from Hong Kong (and also as a mathematics major with an emphasis on statistics), my general sentiment on the other matter is that avoiding particular ethnic restaurants at this point is a rather pitful example of magical thinking. But, on the plus side, more good home-town cooking for me.
Me, I save most of my worry for the erratic behaviour of other drivers while I'm getting to the restaurant from Chez Moen in West Menlo Park. And climbing down stairs to get to the family car. And using my ladder to clean out my house's raingutters. _Those_ are all activities posing serious risks to my health.
Going to a San Francisco restaurant (once past the figurative bumper-car festival on the streets), irrespective of ethnicity, is bloody well way down in the five-sigma levels of health safety -- just like any commercial airline flight.
Want to do something to protect health? Carry tissues to avoid touching the same elevator buttons and door handles some thoughtless person with the flu touched an hour ago. And, if you use stairs as I do, take measures so you don't need to touch the banisters with bare hands. And, speaking of hands, wash them quite a lot with warm water and soap, and keep those hands away from your face.
CDC estimates for flu deaths in the USA so far this season: a bit over 12,000. (We are in peak flu season through the end of February.)
Quoting (purportedly?) Aaron C. (aaronco36@SDF.ORG):
FYI, an excellent web-resource for 95percent-plus Linux events is Rick Moen's Bay Area Linux Events site http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ (the one notable not-just-Linux-or-FOSS exception might be Rick's relatively recent listings for Tom's Berkeley Pi Meeting group http://linuxmafia.com/bale/#berkeleypi)
BALE has never had a hard requirement for either Linux or for open source.[1]
It originated as, and frankly remains, a reminder calendar for Bay Area technical events that Rick Moen happens to find interesting and to mix well enough with the other events listed. At origin, that was mostly Linux groups; hence the name and URL. And the verbal imagery works, too, IMO: It's a (virtual) bale of upcoming events, bundled into a chronological list. Perl groups, Python groups, BSD groups, and a lot of others have followed that happened to catch my eye and make me think 'that's interesting' -- including groups like CocoaHeads, Silicon Valley Chapter, which is strongly Apple-centric and proprietary, and seldom has any intersection with Linux, but which I find interesting despite those drawbacks.
It actually took me very much by surprise, about six months after I first created the page, that the entire technical community in the greater Bay Area was relying on and referring to BALE, in preference to the groups' Web sites it points to. Part of the reason was that the individual group Web sites were (then) very poorly maintained, and ignored basics like making most-needed information most-prominent.
About a decade ago, two of three individuals (notably one Ed Cherlin and one Bill Ward) loudly demanded that I 'open up' BALE so that they could insert into its listings arbitrary other groups they liked that I chose to disregard because I just didn't find them interesting or for other reasons. I sympathised with their problem, but advised that BALE is actually not a public utility. It's my page, on my site, publishing content curated by me. OTOH, I pointed out, the underying software ('autobale') is fully open source, simple, and publicly available. Therefore, I suggested they remember A.J. Liebling's aphorism -- 'Freedom of the press is available only to those who own one' -- and run their own damned autobale instance that implemented _their_ curation policies. I offered help, and even offered a Debian CD, or, if that required too much competence, Ubuntu. ;->
My suggestion and offer of assistance was, predictably, ignored, however, and one of the strident dissidents, can't remember which one, created a Google Calendar, instead.
Because outsourcing to hosted propretary software run and controlled by the world's second-nosiest corporation is so very much easier than thinking.
Besides SF-LUG's once-a-month meeting, I'd suggest your also looking into some of the outlier locations for their bona fide _Linux_ end-user support and feedback for those relatively new to installing
- using Linux, e.g., BerkeleyLUG, the Diablo Valley Linux User Group
(DVLUG), the East Bay Linux User Group (EBLUG), and maybe one or two other regional Linux User Groups.
So, what's CABAL, then? Chopped liver? ;->
[1] I really wish people would take the expressions 'FOSS' and (even worse) 'FLOSS' and dump them in a radioactive pit, somewhere. Talk about your incompetently obscure antimarketing.