[ba-filk-announce] Filk this Saturday (April 8)

[Bob Kanefsky <Kanef@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just a reminder that I'm hosting a filk sing in a couple of days.

And while I'm at it, here's the announcement again, for your  
convenience.
(No changes, except I corrected the end time to "??am".)

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Temporal coordinates:  2006-04-08T18:00:00-07:00
Spacial coordinates: 37.40055 N Lat, 122.0715 W Lon *
     	http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ll=37.40055,-122.0715

					Time to admit it:  We have a drinking problem!

The problem is that people are bringing a lot more soft drinks than  
they consume.  After my February filk I was left with 20 liters of  
unopened soda -- that's after I dumped the partially consumed bottles  
and took away all the stuff I thought I might drink myself and could  
store (mostly the red drinks, as it happens).  I probably bent the  
rules by leaving them in the clubhouse, but it was that or throw  
perfectly good unopened soda in the dumpster.  The Irish believe you  
can go to Hell for wasting too much beer in your life, but wasting  
caffeine seems like the true sin to me.  How can I waste soft drinks  
when there are thirsty children in Africa?

					I'd like to give the world a Coke

I figure there's a 75% chance that all or nearly all of it will still  
be there on April 8, but either way, I figured there's going to be  
too much unless I say something.  So I'd like to discourage folks  
from bringing soda, and if you do bring it, please be prepared to  
take the unused portion away when you leave, or it will go to waste.   
In fact, I'd like to encourage people to arrive with no soda and  
leave with a couple of bottles!

Contributions of food are welcome but not required.  Don't hesitate  
to come empty-handed.  And if you feel guilty about that, you can  
always contribute a couple of dollars toward a pizza if we decide we  
need one, or even toward the clubhouse rental fee if you insist.  I'm  
happy to cover it myself, but one person's share is about the same as  
the price of a two-liter bottle of Coke, and given the choice, I'd  
rather line my pockets than the dumpster.

				* Spatiotemporal details:

Directions:  By car, take either 101 or 85 and get off on Moffett  
Blvd. heading southwest, toward downtown (i.e. away from Moffett  
Field).  From Caltrain or LRT, get off at the Mountain View station  
and walk 1.2km toward Moffett Field.  (Getting back late at night is  
another story.)  In the unlikely event that anyone is planning to get  
here under their own power (e.g., bike, foot, roller blade), Moffett  
Blvd. is the one street that the Stevens Creek Trail crosses at grade  
level; go south one block and turn left.  Despite the official  
address (500 W. Middlefield), the clubhouse is actually just off of  
Moffett Blvd.  Enter on the first driveway on Moffett that is north  
of the Middlefield cross-street (and south of where 85 passes over)  
and look for a raised glass structure just ahead of you and on your  
left.  (If you do enter from W. Middlefield, make two left turns.)   
If you're arriving by spaceship (or looking at the Google satellite  
image), it's the small tree-shaded popsicle-shaped building 29 meters  
northwest of the pool.

Parking: You may park in any unnumbered space.  (The numbered spots  
are generally the covered ones.)  However, Willow Park has added a  
new rule.  Guests are asked "to distribute the parking of their  
vehicles to the areas between buildings 9 and 10, behind building 4,  
and in front of building 26 to alleviate parking congestion in the  
area between the clubhouse and building 1."

Saturday, April 8, 2006
6pm - ??am -- arrive anytime before 10pm
Willow Park Clubhouse
Moffett Bldv. & W. Middlefield Road
Mountain View, CA 94043

Hope to see many of you there!


					--Kanef