PSA

[gwillen]

I will be in the San Francisco Bay area from July 12 to July 19. I'll be staying in the Mountain View area, and looking for housing around there, for August (ideally) or September (less ideally) move-in. If you want to hang out with me while I'm around, or if you have housing tips, or know someone who needs a housemate, reply here. :-)

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[gwillen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Purple just told me it looked like we would be overlapping.

We can go to that one mexican restaurant what's it called?

[bubblingbeebles.livejournal.com]

la bamba :P i would be up for it!

also, if you are up for swankier fare, i'm considering organising a trip to fleur de lys (in SF, has a michelin star), which you'd be welcome to join.

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

I would be interested as long as it will be feasible for me to get there from the south bay with no vehicle.

[bubblingbeebles.livejournal.com]

i'd be doing the same, so you're in good company. unless you speak of some moral objection to being driven or something...

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

Haha no, just not being able to drive myself.

[psifenix.livejournal.com]

Fleur de Lys is good but La Folie is better! :O

[bubblingbeebles.livejournal.com]

wow, it does look good! maybe we will go there too.

i have also heard good things about quince, but its dress code seems a little prohibitive.

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

Oh uh, dress code. ;_;

This place you are wanting me to go to (not quince) -- does it have one? That might indeed be prohibitive.

[bubblingbeebles.livejournal.com]

i verified that both fleur de lys and la folie are business casual. (i will just bring a set of khakis, a decent long-sleeve shirt, and shoes that aren't my orange running shoes.)

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

'Business casual' is probably strong enough for me to be out. Sorry.

[bubblingbeebles.livejournal.com]

you wouldn't wear long pants and long sleeves or a polo?

i can get pretty uncomfortable when asked to wear button-downs, let alone jackets, but business casual has always meant "on the nicer side of what you would wear every day" for me.

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

Ben, I do not even know the difference between "long sleeves" and "button-downs". Given that a fancy restaurant is somewhere I go to be polite and to socialize, not because I expect to get a lot of additional enjoyment out of the food, the additional effort of digging through my closet for clothes that I have not worn in over a year and may not fit, is not worth it to me.

[bubblingbeebles.livejournal.com]

all right, no pressure.

i am surprised, though. what do you wear when you go to restaurants in the winter?

[gwillen.livejournal.com]

I guess maybe you haven't spent enough time in physical proximity to me to gather the usual impression about how I dress. The answer to that, for many years, was "shorts and a t-shirt". The answer these days in a Pittsburgh winter is more likely "pants and a t-shirt." The answer in a California winter will still be "shorts and a t-shirt".

[ikeepaleopard]

This question confuses me. I have the wardrobe and no qualms about dressing up, but when I go to restaurants (except in very special cases) I wear what I happen to be wearing.

p.s. They judge you if you wear khakis and a polo. Rightly so.

[bubblingbeebles.livejournal.com]

what would you wear to a michelin-starred place that said business casual? (what if we were going to quince, instead?)

[ikeepaleopard]

Dark slacks and a button down shirt. This is part of my general theory that khakis and a polo looks good on basically no one.

[psifenix.livejournal.com]

All these places have some kind of dress code, I would think? I wore a suit to LF, but I think you can get away w/o a jacket.

What does Quince (which I have wanted to go to) require?

[bubblingbeebles.livejournal.com]

it says "jacket preferred".

[psifenix.livejournal.com]

I think most places would prefer a jacket, but being SF people are pretty lax about all this. I think as long as you wear good jeans and not-a-t-shirt you are probably good just about anywhere here.

[ikeepaleopard]

I support you guys coming to SF and eating fancy foods with me.

[bubblingbeebles.livejournal.com]

all right I am counting you in!

[jgrafton]

there *are* better mexican restaurants around, you know :P

[lindseykuper]

At work, our team totally goes to La Bamba at least once a week. At least.

Sully actually mentioned that he once went to an interview flyout at Palantir, even though he had no interest in working there, just so that he could go to La Bamba afterward.

[bubblingbeebles.livejournal.com]

an artistically-distorted truth. we asked him "so how was your interview at la bamba?"