{"id":2191,"date":"2009-10-10T00:17:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T05:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2010-04-24T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T23:32:51","slug":"ubuntu-california-birthday-rifftrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2009\/10\/ubuntu-california-birthday-rifftrax\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu California, Birthday, RiffTrax Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now those things from the past few weeks that I didn&#8217;t manage to cover in my last post&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meeting the San Francisco Ubuntu California folks! What a treat. Grant Bowman arranged to meet up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirstybear.com\/\">Thirsty Bear Brewing Company<\/a> which was about half a block from where I was staying. I was able to meet a bunch of people I&#8217;ve only been in contact with via IRC thus far, including Mark Terranova who took and later posted this photo.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gidgetkitchen\/3988908386\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3504\/3988908386_a6e2f99a0b_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gidgetkitchen\/3988908386\/\">100_6262<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/gidgetkitchen\/\">Gidget Kitchen<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Back home, my birthday was a lot of fun. My friend Stephen organized for a few friends to meet up over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desi-village.com\/\">Desi Village<\/a> right after our Mythbuntu Jam on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/102009\/desi-village-birthday_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/102009\/desi-village-birthday_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<center><small>(Thanks to Mike for this photo &#8230;which is why he&#8217;s not in it!)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Stephen even got me a cake&#8230; with my IRC nick on it (squee!).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/102009\/happy_birthday_pleia2_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/102009\/happy_birthday_pleia2_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I had a great time and the food was delicious. It&#8217;s awesome to have such great friends :)<\/p>\n<p>And finally, on Thursday night I went out with Michael to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncm.com\/Fathom\/Comedy\/RiffTrax_Encore.aspx\">encore presentation of RiffTrax Live<\/a>, where they riffed Plan 9 from Outer Space. I&#8217;m sure actually seeing in live back in August would have been more exciting, but this encore presentation was a lot of fun too, especially getting all wound up all day over it via tweets by the RiffTrax crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now those things from the past few weeks that I didn&#8217;t manage to cover in my last post&#8230; Meeting the San Francisco Ubuntu California folks! What a treat. Grant Bowman arranged to meet up at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company which was about half a block from where I was staying. I was able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,16,13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-events","category-life","category-philadelphia","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}