Again! It's the end of July, and you know that means a
PARTY BBQ PARTY BBQ PARTY BBQ
at the home of Mike Ward and Karen Schaffer
Saturday, July 27, 2013
4:00 pm onwards
1181 Martin Ave ,
San Jose
CA 95126
(408) 298-3269
Our house is one hundred and three years old this year! We are
much younger,
though monotonically approaching convergence. This year is the
twentieth
anniversary of Karen's emigration from Minnesota
and the thirtieth anniversary of Mike's emigration from
Sunnyvale .
We have pictures of the
Minnesota trip, and we
are monotonically younger in them.
Our back yard has not changed this year. Well, perhaps the
plants have grown;
it was a good year for plant growth. The archaeological site
is still open, but
will be closed up shortly for the benefit of a future
generation of archaeologists.
The wood-chip base is still base, though older. Come and see
it for yourselves.
Bring: barbecueable food (your main course) and potluck stuff to share; wine;
beer (especially unusual ones no one has ever heard of); friends who can talk
intelligently (especially unusual ones, though it's OK if we've heard of them)
Bring Not: dogs, cats, chickens, bullfrogs, aspirated vireos,
unaspirated vimeos,
or one-headed sheep. (However, service animals of these types
are always
welcome.) Do not bring theories of existence, existence
theorems, existence
proofs, theories of proof, proofs of theories, or proofs of
existence. We have
a bbq, and therefore we eat; theories of lunch or dinner are
therefore always
acceptable, though you may get arguments about the details, or
perhaps the
appetizers.
Last year we had a lot of complaints about the hierarchy,
specifically about
their absence. So, this year, we're going back to molecular
monolayers, if we
can just get those chickens small enough. Consider both
compressive and
filtration techniques, and remember that Safety is
All-Important.
Enjoy: food, drink, conversation, stuff other people brought
to share
We supply:
* beer (many different kinds), soft drinks (ditto),
and fizzy waters
* cups, plates, forks, knives, spoons; maybe a fnoorn
or a splate
* some vegetables, plenty snacks, and other eatable
things
* a house of many rooms; one will have a few items you
can take home
* more plants than you can shake a stick at (if for
some reason)
* a highly attractive view of many, many plants
* a gas grill, with gas and gas accessories; a
charcoal grill, etc.
When:
* 4:00 pm and onwards, Saturday 27 July 2013
* ignition of the gas grill is at 5:15
* cooking starts 5:30-6:00 -- vegetarian on gas-grill
first
* everybody leaves at some point or another
Directions: Find highway 101, 280, or 880/17. From 880/17,
take The Alameda
exit toward San Jose .
About a mile and a half along, The Alameda bends off to the
left, and Race
St. and
Martin Ave. come in
from the right. A modern building in the style of Deco (really
Depression
Moderne), labeled "
Hanchett
Park " on its clock
tower, sits at this corner. Freebird Burritos in the round
corner location seems
to have many customers. I have no idea why.
Look for the street with the tall, really tall, palm trees;
that's Martin
Ave. If you
get to the HP Pavilion you have gone too far.
Make a sharp right at the
Hanchett
Park building. Go
down
the street with the tall, really tall, palm trees. You are now
almost certainly
traveling on Martin Ave. Look in first block. Look on right
side. Look for the
third house, a white house with a red-orange tile roof. Look
for house numbers 1181
next to the door. Look and Find.
The number is on the curb in faded black and white (though
parked cars will
obscure it) and on the house in brass. There are roses and
salvias and many
other things in terraces along the sidewalk, and flowers and
highly
enthusiastic plants of every description now dwell where grass
once tried to
grow. The Gazebo is here, sitting on a wild low-maintenance
(aka dried)
meadowland; paced off formally by stepping-stones, it looks
past a Succulent
Garden .
It does not decry Succulents; it
just can't change its orientation very easily.
If you come after dark, look for the spotlights on the entry
steps, and some
eerily glowing LED standlights lining the walkway to the house
and illuminating
important loci in the meadowland.
> From 101: Take 101 south to 880; take the
Santa Cruz
exit onto 880 and watch for The
Alameda exit. Go toward
San Jose .
> From 280: Take 280 to 880/17; take the
Oakland
exit onto 880/17 and watch for The
Alameda exit. Go toward
San Jose .
> From Oakland ,
Berkeley ,
etc.: Get on 880 and go south until
you reach a part of the highway that reduces to a known
solution.
> From Santa Cruz ; south
of San Jose ;
divers other
places: Use a large-area Map and follow the Main Traffic
Highways until the
above enters your Local Universe. Have I mentioned GPS yet?
Google and Yahoo and those some other guys all have online map
services that
can direct you here with a specialized map. Siri can help, if
she's in a good
mood; or one of her competition, if you have it in your
pocket. If you are
truly lost you can always call the number given above.
Parking can be dicey; there's plenty of on-street parking, but
you may wind up
a few hundred feet away. Mobility-impaired can park in our
driveway.
We are accessible by other modes of transportation! Do you
want me to define a
word again? I still can't believe I actually wrote all that
stuff about
serendipity last year. This year the word that's on everyone's
lips is
"hyperplasticity." Very few English words include an explicit
address
to the recipient in the beginning of the word itself, but this
is one of them, beginning
as it does with the salutation, "Hy." If your name is not Hy,
you can
change it, considering as one possibility the name "Henry,"
often
abbreviated Hy, or nicked as Harry. Also, you could be Harold
or even Harald,
and that's several choices right there. If none of these feel
appropriate, consider
a nickname of the old Canadien "dit" variety, such as "Malcom
Lucrose dit Hy." You could still use your old stationery,
merely
rubber-stamping in the new nomen. Hy is much faster to type
than Henry,
certainly a factor to consider when you realize the word is
calling you a
"perp" of some kind, probably involving a "las," which might
be a short lass or a long set of e.g. Vegas. It's you, Harry,
with that teenager
in your old Chevy hotrod, driving through "ti city,"
struggling no
doubt with your GPS and trying to avoid the law. You probably
got thrown out of
Liberty
City ,
and we'd prefer you not come here
with your beat-up cars and your doubtful friends. Wait, that
you's not you, the
recipient of this invitation, but another you entirely! You,
yes you; please
come.
Next year we'll have a grammar lesson about the Grocer's's
Apo'strophe.
Where was I? GPS says
1181 Martin Ave. The
Caltrain/Amtrak ["Diridon"] station
in San Jose is a 15-minute
walk along The
Alameda (walk in the direction away from downtown
San Jose ,
to get to our house; reverse the
process when you leave). The Alameda
is a major
bus route with frequent service, so you can take the bus from
the train
station, or from elsewhere in the South
Bay or
Peninsula .
OR: Fly in to Mineta
S.
J. International
Airport ,
and we are a short cab-ride (or a rather long walk) away. And
then there's
BART-and-a-bus (get info before you do it). With all that, we
expect you'll be
here soon. Karen and Mike, on the other hand, are already
here, and have been for
years and years, and are beginning to think we need to send
the full invitation
out earlier.
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