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Dinner / drink recommendations for Charlotte?

Francis Hwang

10/31/2007 4:34:00 PM

With RubyConf 2007 almost upon us, do any Charlotte natives care to
give some advice about good places to eat & drink?
12 Answers

David A. Black

10/31/2007 4:58:00 PM

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James Britt

10/31/2007 6:18:00 PM

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David A. Black wrote:
> Hi Francis --
>
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Francis Hwang wrote:
>
>> With RubyConf 2007 almost upon us, do any Charlotte natives care to
>> give some advice about good places to eat & drink?
>
> Scott Nedderman put together a map on the Charlotte Ruby Group site:
>
> http://charlot...
>

(Quick snark: charcoal gray text on a black background? Poor design.)

The site says there's a gathering at Ri-Ra's, and links to a Facebook
page. The Facebook page has a blurb about Ri-Ra's that links to:
http://charlot....

Where is Ri-Ra's, and what other pre-conf gatherings are planned?


Thanks,

--
James Britt

"I suspect IDEs are like Bail Bondsmen. It may be a good sign if you
don't know what they're for."
- Paul Graham

Matt Lawrence

10/31/2007 7:13:00 PM

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Wilson Bilkovich

10/31/2007 8:13:00 PM

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On 10/31/07, Matt Lawrence <matt@technoronin.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Francis Hwang wrote:
>
> > With RubyConf 2007 almost upon us, do any Charlotte natives care to
> > give some advice about good places to eat & drink?
>
> You expect to get out of the hotel? Wow. I'm expecting a few days of
> intense learning and networking with some of the most brilliant people I
> have ever met. Food and drink are far less interesting.
>

The most brilliant people you have ever met also need to eat, and so
will be visiting various restaurants.

Sebastia

10/31/2007 9:12:00 PM

0

On 2007-10-31 11:34:02 -0500, Francis Hwang <francisphwang@gmail.com> said:

> With RubyConf 2007 almost upon us, do any Charlotte natives care to
> give some advice about good places to eat & drink?

My Charlotte sources tell me that Fried Pickles at the The Penguin
Drive-In [1] is all you 'less-brilliant' people will be needing... :)

They also speak very highly of Fuel Pizza ("best pizza") [2] and
Chik-Fil-A ("best fast food ever"). All seems to be right around the
Omni.

cheers,
sebastian

[1] http://www.penguindr...
[2] http://www.fuel...

7stud --

11/1/2007 1:12:00 AM

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Matt Lawrence wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Francis Hwang wrote:
>
>> With RubyConf 2007 almost upon us, do any Charlotte natives care to
>> give some advice about good places to eat & drink?
>
> You expect to get out of the hotel? Wow. I'm expecting a few days of
> intense learning and networking with some of the most brilliant people I
> have ever met. Food and drink are far less interesting.
>
> Now, if somebody wanted to talk to me about a job, I might be able to
> make
> time for it.
>

Would you consider hawking "Learning Python" books to the uninitiated?
It won't take much effort. If you read a few passages to the throng,
they will snap up all the copies you have.

--
Posted via http://www.ruby-....

Giles Bowkett

11/1/2007 7:52:00 PM

0

> > With RubyConf 2007 almost upon us, do any Charlotte natives care to
> > give some advice about good places to eat & drink?
>
> You expect to get out of the hotel? Wow. I'm expecting a few days of
> intense learning and networking with some of the most brilliant people I
> have ever met. Food and drink are far less interesting.
>
> Now, if somebody wanted to talk to me about a job, I might be able to make
> time for it.

I think I know **why** some people are planning to leave the hotel --
so they can get away from the San Francisco Rails programmers and have
a sensible conversation without getting sprayed in the face with
irrelevant rudeness coming out of nowhere. You boys really need to
learn to keep those things in your pants.

I was so depressed about missing RubyConf until I read this. I'm still
bummed, but at least there's a silver lining. I won't have to deal
with the unprovoked, irrelevant, aggressive condescension that the
Rails community is famous for.

But what would I know? Why should anyone listen to me? I'm not even
going to be at RubyConf. I'm going to be somewhere eating food. God.
What a loser. Who eats food?

--
Giles Bowkett

Blog: http://gilesbowkett.bl...
Portfolio: http://www.gilesg...
Tumblelog: http://giles.t...

Drew Olson

11/1/2007 9:35:00 PM

0

James Britt wrote:
> David A. Black wrote:
>>
> (Quick snark: charcoal gray text on a black background? Poor design.)
>
> The site says there's a gathering at Ri-Ra's, and links to a Facebook
> page. The Facebook page has a blurb about Ri-Ra's that links to:
> http://charlot....
>
> Where is Ri-Ra's, and what other pre-conf gatherings are planned?

I can attest that Ri-Ra's is a great time if you're into the Irish pub
thing. We had a blast there on St. Paddy's Day last year.

- Drew
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-....

Pat Maddox

11/2/2007 3:57:00 AM

0

On Nov 1, 2007 12:51 PM, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > With RubyConf 2007 almost upon us, do any Charlotte natives care to
> > > give some advice about good places to eat & drink?
> >
> > You expect to get out of the hotel? Wow. I'm expecting a few days of
> > intense learning and networking with some of the most brilliant people I
> > have ever met. Food and drink are far less interesting.
> >
> > Now, if somebody wanted to talk to me about a job, I might be able to make
> > time for it.
>
> I think I know **why** some people are planning to leave the hotel --
> so they can get away from the San Francisco Rails programmers and have
> a sensible conversation without getting sprayed in the face with
> irrelevant rudeness coming out of nowhere. You boys really need to
> learn to keep those things in your pants.

I see a bunch of dudes in the hotel bar right now...I'm going to head
out and find a cool place to play pool and talk to southern girls
(does NC count as southern? I dunno). Ideally I won't be keeping it
in my pants.

Pat

Giles Bowkett

11/2/2007 7:21:00 AM

0

> > > You expect to get out of the hotel? Wow. I'm expecting a few days of
> > > intense learning and networking with some of the most brilliant people I
> > > have ever met. Food and drink are far less interesting.
> > >
> > > Now, if somebody wanted to talk to me about a job, I might be able to make
> > > time for it.
> >
> > I think I know **why** some people are planning to leave the hotel --
> > so they can get away from the San Francisco Rails programmers and have
> > a sensible conversation without getting sprayed in the face with
> > irrelevant rudeness coming out of nowhere. You boys really need to
> > learn to keep those things in your pants.
>
> I see a bunch of dudes in the hotel bar right now...I'm going to head
> out and find a cool place to play pool and talk to southern girls
> (does NC count as southern? I dunno). Ideally I won't be keeping it
> in my pants.

Take it out all you want, as long as I don't have to see it or smell it.

(I am skeptical, but that's a whole nother ball of wax.)

--
Giles Bowkett

Blog: http://gilesbowkett.bl...
Portfolio: http://www.gilesg...
Tumblelog: http://giles.t...