Bay Area Bitmob Meet-Up

Editor's note: The headline pretty much covers it...bay area Bitmob meet-up coming soon, details still in flux at the moment! -Demian

As Derek Lavigne mentioned in his post today highlighting the fact that you can now find the Pixel Revolt podcast on iTunes [iTunes link], Derek and fellow Pixel Revolt podcaster Jeff Grubb will be visiting San Francisco next month, from July 9-12. Since the staff and a number of other Bitmobbers are local to SF, Shoe suggested a meet-up for staff and community members to get together and discuss life, love, and why in some cases regifting is a perfectly acceptable action. Oh, and we'll probably talk about games, too.

So if you're in the area, mark your calendars now! And please drop a note in the comments so I can gauge how many people are planning to show. I'll post details -- like exactly when and where in SF the meet-up will be -- as the weekend approaches. (For those of you who live elsewhere: Derek's going to be documenting the entire weekend on video, and he'll post the highlights here on Bitmob.)

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Dan "Shoe" Hsu

June 12, 2009

Eh, sorry guys, I'll be out the rest of 2009. Can't make it.

Demian Linn

What Shoe means to say is, he has a bunch of bunkbeds and can accommodate a pretty much infinite number of house guests.

Nah, I'm just kidding. I'll be picking all of you visitors up in our Bitmob cable car.

Juan Letona

I am a Bay Native, so what caffeine waterhole are we hitting up?

Brett Bates

You like that pic, eh? I also do Photoshop work for weddings and bar mitzvahs.

Trevor Hinkle

Dang, I live on the EAST COAST. The only thing I get here is mosquitoes and the Red Sox.

Toby Davis

Wow and you get to visit the illusive Denny's while your at it. Lucky BitMobbers.

Toby, what's this elusive Denny's you refer to?

Lance Darnell

If San Francisco is the new "Gaming Mecca", then its time to make a Hajj!

Karen Chu

@Brett I'll give you a call when we do my future son's bris ceremony. :D

Tracy Ryan Peterson

I'm going to say I'm coming now then cancel at the last minute. It's my way. You should keep a candle burning for me anyway.

Brett um Denny's cast ring a bell? 8)

Terrence Stasse

Bitmob Bay Area Meet-up? I'm there.

As Juan said, there must be some sort of caffeine related venue involved. Jittery nerves FTW!

Greg Ford

@Trevor: I'll trade you the Giants and A's for the Sox! You can keep the mosquitoes, though.

@Trevor: And then I'll trade you back the Red Sox for any other team in baseball. As long as it's not the Sox! (Sorry, Greg. I used to live in New York.)

Jordan Vincent

@Trevor, at least you're not stuck somewhere in Michigan right? Not only do we have the worst unemployment in the nation but it's also not feasible to drive to any event, East Coast or West. Why can't everything be based somewhere more central to the country, like Illinois?

@Toby: I'm drawing a blank. What podcast is that from?

Podcast?

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Derek Lavigne

@Brett @Toby Shoe and Crispin Boyer did a "podcast" while they ate lunch at Denny's while they had their Sore Thumbs blog up and running.

@Everyone Else We'll see if we can get a place and time set up soon. Is everyone coming so far of proper adult beverage age?

Joshua McCluskey

Ooohhh wiener fest, I'm in. But not hugging/blowing any thing.8)

Adam Jorgensen

Man, I hate living in the Midwest...nothing ever happens here. I wanna move to Cali someday.

@Brett: You used to be cool.
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@Greg I'm with Brett on this one. Born and raised in CT and I bleed pinstripes

Also, as Brett mentioned, if you show up be ready to have a video camera stuck in your face, so don't be shy!

Derek I know about the podcast that is why I mentioned it 8) I remember the last time in CT when I went to Mohegan Suns at the age of 20 and shoveled 3 feet of snow off the car for my mother back in feb 2003.

Brian Shirk

I'd love to come, but not sure if I can make the great trek. If I have enough money and time, I'll do my best to come.

I'm betting that some of you guys are coming to PAX, so we should schedule another meet-up there. I attended PAX last year, and it was a good time. It should be even better this year without a girlfriend tagging along.

Rich McGrath

I need to move to SF.

Bill Niles

*Another reason, I'm happy I just moved to the SF.

Jeff Grubb

June 13, 2009

This should be Saturday day/night, right? would probably be the best for everybody.

I was actually thinking Friday night happy hour time, but that's all up to our Bitmob overlords

Crispin Boyer

So, wait, we're not doing this at Denny's? Red Lobster then?

I vote for Red Robin even though I am not going.

We could do a Chain Crawl: Denny's, Red Lobster, IHOP, Chevy's, Cheesecake Factory...shouldn't be too hard to hit all the chain restaurants in the city! :)

June 14, 2009

@Crispin We can do it anywhere you want if you're picking up the tab.

Jeff Voss

I wish I didn't live in Detroit. :(

@Everyone too far away or too poor or too busy to go to the Bitmob meet up

Sucks to be us, don't it? 8)

Carlos Macias

June 16, 2009

I am sooo tempted to drive up the 6+ hours up from LA for this meet up...will there be live entertainment? :)

Maybe if we ply him with enough mixed drinks, we can coax Derek to do his videogame-themed shadow puppets. My favorite is his shadow of Shadow of the Colossus.

But seriously, Carlos, come if you can, but don't break your neck (or your wallet) to make it. I'm sure there'll be more opportunities for Bitmobbers to get together in the future!

Michael Pangelina

June 20, 2009

Fuck, I will make it a point to be in the bay on those days. Any chance we can not be totally cliche and have it on the other side of the bridge? Oak town represent!

Zero chance!