It is going to be difficult to show up without a proof of existence, since each of us is a proof of our existence.

Best,

Glenn

On 7/19/2013 08:18, David Gallaher wrote:

Again! It's the end of July, and you know that means a

PARTY  BBQ  PARTY  BBQ  PARTY  BBQ

at the home of Mike Ward and Karen Schaffer

Saturday, July 27, 2013
4:00 pm onwards

1181 Martin Ave , San Jose CA 95126
(408) 298-3269

Our house is one hundred and three years old this year! We are much younger, though monotonically approaching convergence. This year is the twentieth anniversary of Karen's emigration from Minnesota and the thirtieth anniversary of Mike's emigration from Sunnyvale . We have pictures of the Minnesota trip, and we are monotonically younger in them.

Our back yard has not changed this year. Well, perhaps the plants have grown; it was a good year for plant growth. The archaeological site is still open, but will be closed up shortly for the benefit of a future generation of archaeologists. The wood-chip base is still base, though older. Come and see it for yourselves.

Bring: barbecueable food (your main course) and potluck stuff to share; wine; beer (especially unusual ones no one has ever heard of); friends who can talk intelligently (especially unusual ones, though it's OK if we've heard of them)

Bring Not: dogs, cats, chickens, bullfrogs, aspirated vireos, unaspirated vimeos, or one-headed sheep. (However, service animals of these types are always welcome.) Do not bring theories of existence, existence theorems, existence proofs, theories of proof, proofs of theories, or proofs of existence. We have a bbq, and therefore we eat; theories of lunch or dinner are therefore always acceptable, though you may get arguments about the details, or perhaps the appetizers.

Last year we had a lot of complaints about the hierarchy, specifically about their absence. So, this year, we're going back to molecular monolayers, if we can just get those chickens small enough. Consider both compressive and filtration techniques, 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 fnoorn or a splate
     * 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 (if for some reason)
     * a highly attractive view of many, many plants
     * a gas grill, with gas and gas accessories; a charcoal grill, etc.

When:
     * 4:00 pm and onwards, Saturday 27 July 2013
     * 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. Freebird Burritos in the round corner location seems to have many customers. I have no idea why.

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. Look and Find.

The number is on the curb in faded black and white (though parked cars will obscure it) and on the house in brass. There are roses and salvias 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 does not decry Succulents; 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; or one of her competition, if you have it in your pocket. 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 serendipity last year. This year the word that's on everyone's lips is "hyperplasticity." Very few English words include an explicit address to the recipient in the beginning of the word itself, but this is one of them, beginning as it does with the salutation, "Hy." If your name is not Hy, you can change it, considering as one possibility the name "Henry," often abbreviated Hy, or nicked as Harry. Also, you could be Harold or even Harald, and that's several choices right there. If none of these feel appropriate, consider a nickname of the old Canadien "dit" variety, such as "Malcom Lucrose dit Hy." You could still use your old stationery, merely rubber-stamping in the new nomen. Hy is much faster to type than Henry, certainly a factor to consider when you realize the word is calling you a "perp" of some kind, probably involving a "las," which might be a short lass or a long set of e.g. Vegas. It's you, Harry, with that teenager in your old Chevy hotrod, driving through "ti city," struggling no doubt with your GPS and trying to avoid the law. You probably got thrown out of Liberty City , and we'd prefer you not come here with your beat-up cars and your doubtful friends. Wait, that you's not you, the recipient of this invitation, but another you entirely! You, yes you; please come.

Next year we'll have a grammar lesson about the Grocer's's Apo'strophe.

Where was I? GPS says 1181 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 think we need to send the full invitation out earlier.

Mike and Karen







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