Hi folks, I'm forwarding this for Michael Ward.
Dave Begin forwarded message: > From: Michael Ward <mjw...@hidden-knowledge.com> > Date: July 12, 2012 11:49:16 AM PDT > To: Dave Gallaher <d...@pacbell.net> > Subject: a forwarding request > > Hi, Dave, > > Could you do me a favor, and forward the BBQ invitation to the BASFA list? > It won't accept email from me, as far as I can tell. > > Mike > > ============== > > Again we do it: > > PARTY BBQ PARTY BBQ PARTY BBQ > > at the home of Mike Ward and Karen Schaffer > > Saturday, July 28, 2012 > 4:00 pm onwards > > 1181 Martin Ave, San Jose CA 95126 > (408) 298-3269 > > Our house is one hundred and two years old this year! We are much younger, > though on a percentage basis asymptotically approaching convergence. We > expect the food to be much younger even than that, some of it picked from > the garden about twenty minutes before the bbq starts. > > Our back yard has changed. You will be able to see the differences easily. > The surface is now a pleasant shade of wood-chip, except over by the pepper > tree, where an ancient Artifact is slowly emerging from the ground as we > dig it out. We're not actually sure what it was, but it sure was big. > > Bring: barbecueable food (your main course) and potluck stuff to share; > wine; beer (especially unusual ones that you don't think we already have); > friends who can talk intelligently (especially unusual ones &etc.); > relatives (if yours, and meeting above criteria) > > Bring Not: dogs, cats, cobs, rats, mice, nutria, angry German shepherds not > included in first category, the sheep you didn't bring last year, mixed > blessings, offspring of spammers, unconventional barbers and/or their > poles, hierarchs or lowerarchs respectively too low or high in the > hierarchy or lowerarchy, rum punches (except with appropriately padded > gloves), insufficiently meaningful statements, unfinished theories of > completeness, or bugs. > > Last year we had a lot of complaints about the nanographic tweezers, > what with the damage to the molecular substrates everywhere; so no go, > this year. If you think you have a neat new tool to show, just ask us > in advance. And remember that Safety is All-Important. > > Enjoy: food, drink, conversation, stuff other people brought to share > > We supply: > * beer (many different kinds), soft drinks (ditto), and fizzy waters > * cups, plates, forks, knives, spoons; maybe a knoon or a forve > * some vegetables, plenty snacks, and other eatable things > * a house of many rooms; one will have a few items you can take home > * more plants than you can shake a stick at (for all sizes of stick) > * newish table, new plantings, newly dug ancient Artifact > * a gas grill, with gas, and gas accessories; a charcoal grill, etc. > > When: > * 4:00 pm and onwards, Saturday 28 July 2012 > * ignition of the gas grill is at 5:15 > * cooking starts 5:30-6:00 -- vegetarian on gas-grill first > * everybody leaves at some point or another > > Directions: Find highway 101, 280, or 880/17. From 880/17, take > The Alameda exit toward San Jose. About a mile and a half along, > The Alameda bends off to the left and Race St. and Martin Ave. come > in from the right. A modern building in the style of Deco (really > Depression Moderne) labeled "Hanchett Park" on its clock tower > sits at this corner. Togo's/Baskin-Robbins is gone! When the dust > clears a Freebird Burritos will be in its place (we do not wait in > anticipation for this transformation). > > Look for the street with the tall, really tall, palm trees; that's > Martin Ave. If you get to the HP Pavilion you have gone too far. > > Make a sharp right at the Hanchett Park building. Go down the street > with the tall, really tall, palm trees. You are now almost certainly > traveling on Martin Ave. Look in first block. Look on right side. Look > for the third house, a white house with a red-orange tile roof. > Look for house numbers 1181 next to the door. Finding helps, also. > > The number is on the curb in black and white [sadly, parked > cars will obscure it] and on the house in brass. There are roses and > salvia and many other things in terraces along the sidewalk, and flowers > and highly enthusiastic plants of every description now dwell > where grass once tried to grow. The Gazebo is here, sitting on > a wild low-maintenance (aka dried) meadowland; paced off formally > by stepping-stones, it looks past a Succulent Garden. It's not sniffy > about it; it just can't change its orientation very easily. > > If you come after dark, look for the spotlights on the entry > steps, and some eerily glowing LED standlights lining the walkway > to the house and illuminating important loci in the meadowland. > > > From 101: Take 101 south to 880; take the Santa Cruz exit onto > 880 and watch for The Alameda exit. Go toward San Jose. > > > From 280: Take 280 to 880/17; take the Oakland exit onto 880/17 > and watch for The Alameda exit. Go toward San Jose. > > > From Oakland, Berkeley, etc.: Get on 880 and go south until you > reach a part of the highway that reduces to a known solution. > > > From Santa Cruz; south of San Jose; divers other places: Use a > large-area Map and follow the Main Traffic Highways until the above > enters your Local Universe. Have I mentioned GPS yet? > > Google and Yahoo and those some other guys all have online map > services that can direct you here with a specialized map. Siri can > help, if she's in a good mood. If you are truly lost you can always > call the number given above. > > Parking can be dicey; there's plenty of on-street parking, > but you may wind up a few hundred feet away. Mobility-impaired > can park in our driveway. > > We are accessible by other modes of transportation! Do you want > me to define a word again? I still can't believe I actually > wrote all that stuff about desserts and cliffs last year. This > year the word that's on everyone's lips is "serendipity." You've > seen the Serendipity player on YouTube, you've seen it in tweets > by everyone from, well you know, from A to Z. At least you have if > you were looking for something else at the time. It never fails to > amaze me how famous words can find ways to hide themselves--in plain > sight, inside other words, behind dense masses of prose, or just in > the dictionaries of other languages. You'd think they somehow > objected to being brought out for examination, they way they fuss > and curse (depending on the word, of course), or in the case of > today's word simply rely on misdirection and disguise. And yet, try > to search for something else, and there it is, jumping up and down > saying, "Me! Me!" as if it were a different word in another place. > So to get right down to it, today's word is made up of the four words > "sere" (conjoined compressively on the double-e with) "end" "i" and > "pity," making its definition obvious, and rather dark, but highly > surprising. > > Where was I? Oh, yes, on Martin Ave. The Caltrain/Amtrak ["Diridon"] > station in San Jose is a 15-minute walk along The Alameda (walk in the > direction away from downtown San Jose, to get to our house; reverse > the process when you leave). The Alameda is a major bus route with > frequent service, so you can take the bus from the train station, or > from elsewhere in the South Bay or Peninsula. OR: Fly in to Mineta > S. J. International Airport, and we are a short cab-ride (or a rather > long walk) away. And then there's BART-and-a-bus (get info > before you do it). With all that, we expect you'll be here soon. > Karen and Mike, on the other hand, are already here, and have been > for years and years, and are beginning to wonder if you really plan > to show up or not. > > Mike and Karen > > > > > > >
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