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Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 10:39:00 AM PDT
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I know many people are on vacation but for those of you close to San Jose and fond of CT (Jeremy, the tech guy at DailyKos) he is attending a conference:
http://en.oreilly.com/velocity...
Conference Location
Fairmont San Jose
170 S. Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
If you are interested in meeting for a drink, say Wednesday night please comment below and I can contact ct.
That's ct there in the plaid shirt (kos, miss laura and Nate Silver)
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Sun Jun 21, 2009 at 21:00:32 PM PDT
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Sadly, the San Francisco Kossacks are losing two valuable members. Highacidity and ukiyo are moving to North Carolina. Highacidity and ukiyo were two of the original 2005 organizers along with myself of our local group that gets together every now and then. We have had a lot of fun and we will sorely miss highacidity and ukiyo. You can find past event diaries in my profile of course, several are hiliarious like the tin foil hat contest...but I digress.
Last night we got together one final time in Bay Area meatspace to say au revoir to highacidity/ukiyo and let them know how much we have enjoyed their participation in our group and our lives. We will miss them but glad that we have virtual access to them.
I will get to see them at Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh and you can too if you register.
Our wonderful SFKossack member sidepocket could not attend but called the restaurant and paid for the several pitchers of margaritas we drank. What a guy, huh!
A few of my photos below:
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Tue Jun 09, 2009 at 16:00:40 PM PDT
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UPDATE :: Hola's can only accomodate us at 5:30 PM!
Bob and Gina (Ukiyo and highacidity) are moving to Raleigh, North Carolina.
We are meeting at Hola's in Belmont to say au revoir.
Saturday, June 20th at 5:30 PM.
1015 Alameda De Las Pulgas
Belmont, CA 94002
(650) 591-1735
Get directions
RSVP in the comments
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Tue May 05, 2009 at 23:09:38 PM PDT
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Kim O'Connor has a rescued diary up on Kos tonight
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo...
about a trip to Kabul, Afghanistan and work her group is doing in a small way to try and help schools get resources they need.
very interesting....and all this time I didn't know Kim did that. Will look forward to chatting with her at the next SFKossacks Meet Up.
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Mon May 04, 2009 at 20:38:51 PM PDT
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The annual Stanford PowWow starts this Friday, May 8th and runs all weekend.
http://powwow.stanford.edu/sch...
The Stanford PowWow is free and open to the public. We welcome your donations to help fund our event.
Spectators may come and watch all dances. Dances begin with the first Grand Entry (or first Gourd Dancing session) until the last dance of the day. Generally, dances will run from 7pm-11pm on Friday, 11am-11pm on Saturday, and 11am-6pm on Sunday.
There are food booths that will be open prior to the 7pm Grand Entry on Friday.
I will definitely be there at 7pm on Friday. Not sure I can meet earlier at the food booths but let me know in the comments if you want to meet for food and I'll see if I can get there. I have a very busy weekend and limited time on Friday evening.
There won't be an organized meeting place. If you want to meet us leave a comment and I will email you. We will connect using our cell phones.
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 18:45:56 PM PDT
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In my announcing diary about our upcoming dinner with Angry Mouse I gave a little background on our visiting Kossack.
Please join me below for a photo recap (only 20 or so, no worries) of our WELCOME WAGON dinner.
We enjoy dining with visiting Kossacks so please let us know if you will be in the San Francisco Bay Area.
It's all about community, IMO.
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Thu Apr 02, 2009 at 19:24:58 PM PDT
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The San Francisco Bay Area SFKossacks are having dinner with Angry Mouse this Saturday, April 4 at 6:00 PM at La Fiesta Restaurant in Mountain View at 240 Villa Street.
A little about Angry Mouse:
I live in Tacoma, Washington with my husband and our three cats. I grew up in Santa Barbara, went to UCSC, and lived in San Mateo for five years, and I desperately miss California, so I love any excuse to come back for visits. Especially when the weather is so gorgeous like it has been for the past week.
I work from home as a paralegal, but my office is in Palo Alto, so every few months, I'm summoned down here (which I do not mind at all, since I love my office, love any excuse to visit my friends, and love chowing down on a double double from In 'n Out. I'm trying to persuade my husband that we should move back here, but so far, I've been unsuccessful, so I settle for coming for visits every few months.
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More about Angry Mouse below.
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Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 10:51:08 AM PDT
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Hey San Francisco Bay Area SFKossacks!
Angry Mouse is in town:
I live in Tacoma, Washington with my husband and our three cats. I grew up in Santa Barbara, went to UCSC, and lived in San Mateo for five years, and I desperately miss California, so I love any excuse to come back for visits. Especially when the weather is so gorgeous like it has been for the past week.
I work from home as a paralegal, but my office is in Palo Alto, so every few months, I'm summoned down here (which I do not mind at all, since I love my office, love any excuse to visit my friends, and love chowing down on a double double from In 'n Out. I'm trying to persuade my husband that we should move back here, but so far, I've been unsuccessful, so I settle for coming for visits every few months.
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More about Angry Mouse after the jump.
I know this is short notice but I think bloggers having a chance to dine with other bloggers is a good and rare thing. One should jump on the chance to participate.
So JUMP.
NOW.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 at 12:05:16 PM PDT
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On Saturday, March 21st the San Francisco Kossacks honored "Out of Town" blogger DemMarineVet.
We gathered for drinks and dinner at our local Mission spot Puerto Allegre.
It's all about building a community.
Only 10 photos below compared to my usual 100.
Here is DemMarineVet gathering with kimoconnor and the awful truth
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Tue Mar 03, 2009 at 09:50:30 AM PST
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For those that ordered, no we did not forget about you.
Just let me know below how y'all want to do this.
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Tue Feb 17, 2009 at 20:26:41 PM PST
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SallyCat just emailed me and we need to do our welcome wagon thingey.
Hello....from the other side of the wet bridge!
I've agreed to let DemMarineVet stay at my house in March. He'll be here for 3+ days the weekend of March 20-22. York and I both spent time with him in Chicago. A very nice young man and coming in from Las Vegas (iirc).
He'd like to meet up with SF Kossacks...Mexican food is his favorite. So, I was hoping we could organize a dinner at a SF restaurant.
Major UPDATE: We are starting at 5:30 PM!! We only have the table for 2 hours so please arrive on time!
Saturday, March 21st :: 5:30 P.M.
Puerto Alegre
Category: Mexican
Neighborhood: Mission
546 Valencia St
(between 16th St & 17th St)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 255-8201
1. navajo
2. SallyCat
3. Mr. SallyCat
4. DemMarineVet (Guest of Honor)
5. Mber
6. Maybe Mber's cousin
7. kimoconnor
8. mangobabango
9. dadanation
10. the awful truth
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Sat Feb 07, 2009 at 15:04:20 PM PST
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Last year I posted a diary http://www.sfkossacks.net/show... about the CA Sea Otter Fund checkoff on FTB Form 540.
Defenders of Wildlife has sent out an announcement that the fund once again needs to get a minimum of $262,500 in donations FY 2008 in order for it to remain on Form 540 FY 2009. (Last year they just met the minimum to remain on the form FY 2008.)
Since refunds are being delayed by the state thanks to the budget crisis, what's $1 less? Even if you owe to the state, please consider adding $1 to the Sea Otter Fund.
More information at Defenders of Wildlife http://www.defenders.org/progr...
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Fri Jan 30, 2009 at 11:52:46 AM PST
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How about we post an open thread once a month to catch up on miscellaneous crap stuff?
I want to pimp my diary on DKos this afternoon and didn't want to hijack any of the most latest diaries.
Anyone else have something going on? Ideas for next meet-up? (Sounds like we need to do something in March to pick up Girl Scout Cookies.) Besides, Neeta shouldn't have to do all the heavy lifting (although she does everything beautifully). Any suggestions for what we do next?
Did anyone get together for the inauguration? I was upstairs at my neighbors drinking champagne and singing "Na na na na..." to W!
CHEERS to all.
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Sat Jan 10, 2009 at 19:41:21 PM PST
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Land of Enchantment is a on road trip from New Mexico to L.A. and then her final frontier the San Francisco Bay Area. Last night we had a welcome dinner at Xiao Loong. Man, the food was goooooood! Must go there again soon.
In attendance:
1. Land of Enchantment
2. Lineatus
3. navajo
4. norm
5. SallyCat
6. Mr. Cat
7. sidepocket
8. Mrs. sidepocket
9. RNinNC
10. RNinNC's "plus one"
11. leftylimblog
12. leftcoast
13. Archangel
14. dadanation
All photos below:
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Sat Jan 10, 2009 at 13:02:54 PM PST
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At Neeta's request, I'm putting this up here:
I'm sending this because people at the meetup wanted a heads-up when it was time for the Little to take orders for Girl Scout cookies.
The types she has available are:
Lemon Chalet Cremes
Trefoils
Do-si-dos
Samoas
Dulce de leche
sugar free chocolate chip
Tagalongs
Thin Mints.
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