There is also a Bootstrapper Breakfast at 7:30am on the first Friday of the month at that same Hobees: bootstrapping hackers are obviously welcome. See http://www.bootstrapperbreakfast.com/ for more details, next one is Sep 5. There is also an evening "Hackers & Founders" meetup at St. John's in Sunnyvale Sep 18 at 6:30pm http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1737/

This is why I love Silicon Valley.

"Oh, there's another hacker/startup meeting that goes down in that same exact place."

yup! Met sean at the hacker news meetup a few weeks ago, but have heard of the bootstrappers breakfast before. Great meetup, run by an awesome person. I def suggest anyone who can attends.

Just to clarify, Jonathan Nelson ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamelgringo ) organizes the Hackers & Founders Meetup. I facilitate the http://www.bootstrapperbreakfast.com/ events

Completely off-topic, but is there a tinyurl competitor that shows the domain? So, for example, something like http://google.tinyurl.com/69buwm or http://tinyurl.com/google/69buwm instead of http://tinyurl.com/69buwm.

Tinyurl has a way to show you the domain before sending you there: http://preview.tinyurl.com/69buwm

And if you setup cookies for tinyurl --> it can automatically direct you to the preview page.

The awesome highlighter will do it as well, though we don't have it as a part of the public site any more.

http://awurl.com/d/google/tMrTgrpJS

We had it up but no one used it, so my co-founder took it down to "remove clutter"

Check out http://www.pequrl.com

It's by a friend of mine and not super pretty, but it works!

http://301.sickos.org/ comes with python source, so you can easily hack it in (might be two more lines of code)

Dude! 8:30 am? Ok I'm in! If the rest of you are interested, there's a Facebook Silicon Valley Hacker News Group: http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/group.php?gid...

Really awesome group. Was at the august meetup a few weeks ago. iamelgringo has done a kickass job with it.

AM? What's that?

yeah, the meetup is before going to bed :-P

PG should stop by if hes in the valley :-)

Unfortunately I just returned to Cambridge today.

Anyone in SF want to meet up at the same time? Somewhere on Valencia?

Same time? What happened to traditional hacker hours?

Besides, we can't have a competing meetup. That, as my friend says, would be divisive...

San Francisco is effectively nowhere near Palo Alto (esp. for those of us without cars), so I don't think that competition is a problem.

I think that after 10AM is too late, though. Nine?

I could do, say, 10:30am. Also, I don't think SF and PA meetings would be competing for people.

I'd be interested in an afternoon/evening event in SF.

Why don't we poll for the time?

The Boston meetup I attended over a year ago was held during the evening and many awesome people showed up. I encourage consideration of evening time slots! (However, unless I have a conflict I will show up to a SF meetup regardless of time.)

It would be kind of hilarious to overrun Ritual with decidedly non-hipster types. I vote for this.

I'm down for a San Francisco meetup

I'll probably show up.

I'd be up for it.

I'm game

darn, maybe I should move to silicon valley

Wish I could go, but I'm in Florida...

Ditto. I couldn't be much further from Palo Alto all the way up here in upstate NY.

Where in upstate NY? I'm in Syracuse and would go to something like this here.

Rochester, NY.

I'll definitely be there, that's right across the street

This sounds great and I've got a ride etc etc but DAMN that's early. Think I'm not going just because it's insanely early. Seriously guys, wtf.

Hm... got here about 8:50, couldn't find anyone. Did no one show up, or did it just not last very long?

I was there.

Sure you went to the right Hobbies? http://is.gd/1SOa

D'OH!

I was at the one on Embarcadero and ECR.

Ah well, next time.

I would so be there, except... ya know... got work. Any chance we can plan the next one for a weekend?

Is this the one in Town And Country?

Nope, the one across from where Ricky's Hyatt Hotel used to be. Southbound on el camino after the intersection with Charleston/Arastradero.

Anyone from SF driving down and interested in carpooling?

ah, first morning back and were throwing a "party".

Consider having the next one closer to 280 or 101.

hey its 2 miles off 101. Get off at the san antonio exit, make a right onto charleston, then left on el camino. its 1/10 mile down the road on el camino.

breakfast at hobee's!

She said, "I think I remember the hackers,

And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it."

And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got."

How come these meetups are not over weekend?

What about us non-coffee drinking folk? :-P

Mountain Dew. The other hacker love beverage.

Great orange spice tea as well as a full set of Tazo caf and decaf. Fresh squeezed orange juice, a range of smoothies, and the best darn breakfast in town (BDBIT see http://www.hobees.com/textmenu.html )

tons of breakfast food smoothies sandiwches or if youre so inclined... beer!

He's, like, 17. I think that'll be out of the question ;)

yo, dont even go there haha. mazy got sick last time he had that. i seriously may stop by frys and grab some :-o

Sad. I just moved out of Palo Alto.

Hey is this still happening?

I should be able to make it.

i'll try and make it out...

Strangers welcome?

so whats the story with an SF meetup? i'm in

will be there if i make it out of bed!