Bay Area Geeks Eat Lunch on Bay Area Geeks Eat Lunch!

LUNCH, Wednesday 11-28 at noon. Just before the last month of the year, a holiday-themed lunch

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000

A group of middle-aged engineers in holiday hats are having lunch together on Zoom in separate rooms. Each engineer is sitting in front of their computer, with their own unique background. One engineer is sitting in front of a bookshelf, while another is sitting in front of a window with a view of the city. The engineers are all smiling and appear to be enjoying each other’s company, despite being physically separated.

Again, at long last, a lunch!

Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

It’s been a long time. Too long, which I know because multiple people have been like “Next lunch?” and I always say “Yes, I should set it up”, but then I get busy, and most recently, I had to crawl up into my attic and reset the raspberry pi that I have the original for this website on. Truly a first world problem. But, it’s done.

An AI generated post about our next lunch, April 14th at noon

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I asked openai’s chatgpt to write a several paragraph post announcing the next meeting of the Bay Area Geeks who eat lunch, which will be on Friday April 14th at noon PST, including some sarcastic remarks and a last paragraph with rhyming words. Here’s what we got, except the bit about meeting at the place with sandwiches is fake because it will be on Zoom.

Another lunch, with geeks. Friday, March 24th, which is not the Ides of March

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:47:21 -0800

Let’s have another lunch. It’s March. Which comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, I think. Man, the weather has been crazy lately. Something, something, April showers, am-I-right?

Another lunch, with geeks. Friday, February 17th, noon PST

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:47:56 -0800

Let’s have another lunch. In February. On the 17th. You should join us. It’ll be fun.

January 27th, 2023 Lunch

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:47:56 -0800

So, it’s been a while. Too long, in fact. We should have a lunch, for bay area geeks. Or, really, anywhere geeks.

Our next lunch is on Friday, January 27th, at 12pm PST. The password will be the abbreviation for our group, five letters, all capitals. You’ll figure it out.

October 21st Lunch

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Life has interfered. Parents getting old; what’s up with that? Heck, me getting old; not a fan at all. Ow, my feet and knees.

Our next lunch is on Friday, October 21st, 2022, at 12pm PST. The password will be the abbreviation for our group, five letters, all capitals. You’ll figure it out.

September 28, 2022 BAGEL Lunch

Sun, 25 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000

It’s unlikely, but what if that asteroid we hit yesterday with the satellite has a bigger brother asteroid that comes and pummels Earth?

Our next lunch is on Wednesday, September 28th, 2022, at 12pm PST. The password will be the abbreviation for our group, five letters, all capitals. You’ll figure it out.

September 7, 2022 BAGEL Lunch

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Apple’s doing a thing. We could talk all about it, although last time we had a lunch after an Apple announcement nobody really mentioned it.

Our next lunch is on Wednesday, September 7th, 2022, at 12pm PST. The password will be the abbreviation for our group, five letters, all capitals. You’ll figure it out.

August 29, 2022 BAGEL Lunch

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Somehow, it’s almost September. Where has the time gone? Why, it seems like it was just April of 2020.

Our next lunch is on Monday, August 29th, 2022, at 12pm PST. The password will be the abbreviation for our group, five letters, all capitals. You’ll figure it out.

August 5, 2022 BAGEL Lunch

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Somehow, it’s already August. And hasn’t been too hot. Except for those couple days. Or, in the rest of the country. Or in Europe.

Maybe I should stop talking about the wather.

July 8th 2022 BAGEL Lunch

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Our next lunch is on Friday, July 8th, 2022, at 12pm PST. The password will be the abbreviation for our group, five letters, all capitals. You’ll figure it out.

I can’t imagine what topic we may discuss today.

June 24th 2022 BAGEL Lunch

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Our next lunch is on Friday, June 24th, 2022, at 12pm PST. The password will be the abbreviation for our group, five letters, all capitals. You’ll figure it out.

I can’t imagine what topic we may discuss today.

June 15th Lunch Followup

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 17:19:28 -0700

Lunch was a, well, not a huge success, but the three of us had fun. We crashed the fiftieth reunion for a grammar school, and so were far and away the youngest people eating outdoors there.

Our second in-person post COVID lunch, June 15th at noon

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:08:12 -0700

Hi-ho,

Our next in-person lunch will be at Grub Burger Bar, in Santa Clara, 785 Lawrence Expy Santa Clara, CA 95051, at noon on Wednesday June 15th.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/grub-burger-bar-santa-clara-3

They claim to have outdoor seating. I have no reason to doubt them, but if they have lied to me, I shall exact horrible vengeance.

June 10th, 2022 Lunch

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0800

Our next lunch will be on Friday, June 10th, at noon. Pacific time. Still regret that Swatch time didn’t take off.

Ron may talk about his release. Or, we’ll talk about WWDC. Or, maybe a deep dive into Obi-Wan. Except #nospoilers; I’m only on episode two.

June 16th IN PERSON, 2022 Lunch

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0800

Our next lunch will be on Wednesday, June 16th, IN PERSON.

As it turns out, our June 1st place taco truck was closed, so I’ll find a location somewhere near Apple for this lunch meeting. Details will follow. It will allow outdoor dining of some sort.

June 1 IN PERSON HAVING TACOS, 2022 Lunch

Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 -0800

Our next lunch will be on Wednesday, June 1st, IN PERSON.

Meet at the Tacos the King David truck, at the corner of El Camino Real and Halford Avenue in Santa Clara. The addrees is basically 3725 El Camino Real, Santa Clara.

May 27th, 2022 Lunch

Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 -0800

Our next lunch will be on Friday, May 27th at noon PST on Zoom.

Lunch topics may include, well, this country is in pretty bad shape and so we’ll probably kvetch about that. And Ron may show his beta Graphing Calculator.

May 13th, 2022 Lunch

Tue, 03 May 2022 15:00:00 -0800

Our next lunch will be on Friday, May 13th at noon PST on Zoom.

It’s too far out to have an clue what we might talk about, but we’ll figure it out.

Another successful lunch

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:00:00 -0800

A well attended BAGEL lunch and a fun time was had by many.

Since Twitter is terrible, we're also on Mastodon

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:00:00 -0800

Well, Twitter has been terrible for a long time, so that’s not new. And, we’re barely on Twitter right now, so expect us to also barely be on Mastodon.

And, Mastodon is hard to spell. Mastadon. Mastodon. Which one is it?

April 29th 2022 Lunch

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:00:00 -0800

Our next lunch will be on Friday, April 29th at noon PST on Zoom.

Expected topics will include how USB-C sucks, why everything was better back in the 90s and how to expand our growing geek/lunch empire.

April 13th 2022 Lunch Minutes

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:00:00 -0800

Lunch was a huge success and will be repeated. The un-employed among us have continued to be un-employed and seem unconcerned about regaining gainful employement.

April 13th 2022 Lunch

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:00:00 -0800

Our next lunch will be on Wednesday, April 13th, 2022, on Zoom.

Topics on the agenda are expected to be complaining about having to do taxes, and urging some members that they should get jobs, because they are hippies.

2022 04 01 Lunch Minutes

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 13:50:25 -0700

Our lunch meeting on April Fools was a success, with nine or ten attendees. All are officially done with April Fools day jokes, although stackoverflow.com being in 3D today with red-green glasses seemed kind of cool.

April 1st ( NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE), 2022 Lunch

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0800

Our next lunch will be on Friday, April 1st, 2022, on Zoom.

Discussion topics may include whatever crazy April Fools thing we’ve seen, and how much we really hate 4/1 these days, because it’s not good like it use to be when we were young. But, pretty much everything is worse than when we were young. If we were in charge, why, we’d fix it.

March 18th, 2022 Lunch

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:00:00 -0800

Our next lunch will be on Friday, March 18th, 2022, on Zoom.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84603755669