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The perils of travel
Category: Personal
Posted on: June 1, 2008 1:45 PM, by PZ Myers
I've made the journey to Seattle (actually, Auburn, where many of my family members live), and have discovered that access to the internet is spotty in the west coast suburbs — there are wireless servers everywhere, but at the same time, everyone has gotten savvy and protects them with a password. How cruel! Fortunately, I've talked one of my nephews into handing out their home network password to a known internet provocateur, so maybe I'll have some access this week.
Alas, I'm too late to remind you of Atheists Talk radio — I'm sorry if you missed it, but really, it should be a habit by now. Catch it on their podcast instead!
It's not too late to remind all that I'll be speaking before the Northwest Science Writers Association tomorrow, Monday, 2 June, from 7-9pm at the Pacific Science Center Laser Dome. Come on out! I don't have any other specific plans, so if anyone wanted to grab me and drag me out to a pub afterwards, I could be willingly abducted. Make suggestions for specific places in the comments — someplace near the Science Center and not too far from public transit, please — and we'll do it.
If you can't stand me, maybe you'll like Carl Zimmer better. He's talking on Tuesday at Town Hall Seattle. It's $5 admission! My talk is free…now I feel so cheap.
I'll also be speaking on Friday at the Seattle Skeptics, but you'll need to buy a $30+ dinner to hear that one, and you'll need to make reservations soon. A-ha — I've one-upped Carl!
Comments
Posted by: RedMolly | June 1, 2008 2:07 PM
Portlanders can also see Carl Zimmer--for free!--tonight at Powell's Books at 7:30 p.m. See you there... I'll be the hyperventilating fangirl with a copy of Parasite Rex.
Posted by: BadMA | June 1, 2008 2:21 PM
Don't you ever go to Ohio, PZ? I suppose I'll just have to wait until TAM to hear you speak!
Posted by: Owlmirror | June 1, 2008 2:50 PM
Say, what's this?
McMenamins Queen Anne
Posted by: Gregory Kusnick | June 1, 2008 2:53 PM
McMenamin's (on Roy) and TS McHugh's (on Mercer) are two places that come to mind in the immediate Seattle Center vicinity. South of the Center, in Belltown, bars tend more toward the hip singles scene. Down at my end of town, near Pioneer Square, there are a couple of Irish pubs and numerous sports bars, but that's over a mile from Seattle Center, probably farther than you want to go unless you're planning a drunken midnight raid on the DI.
Posted by: DavidONE | June 1, 2008 2:55 PM
Did I miss the announcement here, or are you just being modest, PZ?
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/05/random_acts_of_evolution_1.php
Very enjoyable.
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck, FCD | June 1, 2008 3:18 PM
PZed, modest? Not this time. Does Poe's Law apply if one can't tell if irony is being used or not?
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/my_recent_seed_column.php
Posted by: Matlatzinca | June 1, 2008 4:50 PM
Near the PacSciCtr I like the idea of McMenamins. A more unique beer experience to the Pacific Northwest than TS McHugh's. We know that's really why you came here, right?
Posted by: Ken Cope | June 1, 2008 4:54 PM
I'll be speaking before the Northwest Science Writers Association tomorrow, Monday, 2 June, from 7-9pm at the Pacific Science Center Laser Dome.
PZ has a laser, and he's not afraid to use it!
Posted by: Vagrant | June 1, 2008 5:01 PM
There's plenty of free software out there that will crack WEP passwords while-you-wait....
Posted by: Jeff Arnold | June 1, 2008 5:36 PM
McMenamins has really good beer. Definitely worth checking out!
Posted by: bbcaddict | June 1, 2008 10:00 PM
I'll be there!
Posted by: T.D.E. | June 2, 2008 12:19 AM
I would have to hitchhike ninety miles, then get back Monday night to work on Tuesday. Damn this job and it's blasted responsibility.
Posted by: intelekshual | June 2, 2008 12:24 AM
McMenamins is a fine place in that area for the drinking. And I'd be thrilled to make with the drinking.
Posted by: przxqgl | June 2, 2008 2:27 AM
hey, i live in auburn...
Posted by: Sean Olsen | June 2, 2008 3:08 AM
P.Z., my wife and I are driving up from Salem Oregon to see you speak at the Science Center. We can help with the beer drinking part. Got to love the Pacific Northwest for the beer and cephalopods.
Posted by: Brandon Peters | June 2, 2008 6:13 AM
Has the Atheist talk radio improved in quality? The last time I checked out the podcast I could barely stand how terrible it sounded.
Posted by: ZorkFox | June 2, 2008 10:57 AM
It's going to be awesome to meet you, PZ. I'm even bringing friends! :)
Posted by: Geoff Arnold | June 2, 2008 11:42 AM
I'll be there (Monday, Tuesday and Friday). Like PZ, I hope the drinking spot is close to public transport: when I moved to Seattle, I sold my car because I never used it.
Posted by: intelekshual | June 2, 2008 12:49 PM
Geoff, if we stick with McMenamins, the drinking is close to both the PSC and public transport. It's somewhat ideally situated.
Posted by: SF Reader | June 2, 2008 1:58 PM
Brandon, yes, Atheist Talk Radio recently upped the bps of their feed. They no longer emulate the delicate ambience of AM radio!
Dennis
Posted by: Ann | June 2, 2008 2:28 PM
As a non-scientist who primarily lurks, I feel rather like an interloper--but I'll be at the talk tonight and I'd like to join you at McMenamin's. I suppose I should just join the cluster of hangers-on around Prof PZ?
Posted by: Chris Mitchell | June 2, 2008 4:56 PM
PZ..I'll be there tonight...also, you're more than welcome to join Seattle Drinking Liberally on Tuesday night...we start at 8 and go to 11 PM at the Montlake Alehouse...same place as the last time you visited us.
Posted by: Geoff Arnold | June 3, 2008 10:54 AM
And a good time was had by all, both at the Pacific Science Center and over beer later. See http://geoffarnold.com/?p=2030 . We only had one self-avowed creationist in the audience, and he was, as PZ put it, a "boring creationist"!