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You are here: Home / Balloon Juice / Meetups and social events / Final Reminder: NYC Meet-Up, TONIGHT, 7pm at Ballaro

Final Reminder: NYC Meet-Up, TONIGHT, 7pm at Ballaro

by Anne Laurie|  March 4, 20145:36 pm| 28 Comments

This post is in: Meetups and social events, Open Threads

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One more time…

Commentor Abo Gato and her husband are visiting NYC from Albuquerque, and area resident Diana volunteered Ballaro, in the East Village, as a good place for a meet-up.

Confirmed so far: PurpleGirl, NHOJ, MattR (work permitting), RedDirtGirl, Katie5, Gary Malone, Psifighter (work permitting) and Brooklyn Lurker (after 7:30pm).

Directions to Ballaro at their link. From Diana:

Ballaro’s long and narrow; I’ll be at the back, where there is typically more space. Excellent coffee, excellent wine, excellent prosciutto (the awning identifies it as “Cafe Prosciutteria” which in Italian means a place that sells coffee and prosciutto, but which in American English means a restaurant named Prosciutteria, which, however, has not led them to alter the awning) usually quiet (some nights they have live music; I’ll check) and generally a good place.

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  1. 1.

    MaximusNYC

    March 4, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    I have something else to go to later, but I’ll try to swing by. I’ve managed to miss every other NYC meetup, so it’s about time I got to one.

  2. 2.

    IowaOldLady

    March 4, 2014 at 5:46 pm

    I’m very jealous. Have a good time, everyone.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    March 4, 2014 at 5:50 pm

    Do they have free wi-fi?

    Liveblogging it would be a BJ first. :)

  4. 4.

    MomSense

    March 4, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    Have fun NYC BJers!

  5. 5.

    Diana

    March 4, 2014 at 6:12 pm

    yes, they do have wifi, but it’s not always working…we’ll see.

    I have actually scored a balloon — a white one, with paw prints in honor of Steve and his fellow cohorts of Balloon Juice pets. Come and find the balloon, everyone! See you there.

  6. 6.

    Dee Loralei

    March 4, 2014 at 6:17 pm

    Y’all have a blast! I’m jealous! We need a Mid-South meet-up some day!

  7. 7.

    JPL

    March 4, 2014 at 6:19 pm

    Have fun!

  8. 8.

    Tommy

    March 4, 2014 at 6:56 pm

    @IowaOldLady: Same here. I once had a meet-up with folks I met online A strange bunch of folks and a nice group of folks. A motley group to be sure.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    March 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm

    BTW, just an acknowledgment that today marks the first primary (Texas) of the 2014 elections.

  10. 10.

    ? Martin

    March 4, 2014 at 7:10 pm

    Looks like everyone is colluding with the NSA:

    Hundreds of open source packages, including the Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions of Linux, are susceptible to attacks that circumvent the most widely used technology to prevent eavesdropping on the Internet, thanks to an extremely critical vulnerability in a widely used cryptographic code library.

    The bug in the GnuTLS library makes it trivial for attackers to bypass secure sockets layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protections available on websites that depend on the open source package. Initial estimates included in Internet discussions such as this one indicate that more than 200 different operating systems or applications rely on GnuTLS to implement crucial SSL and TLS operations, but it wouldn’t be surprising if the actual number is much higher. Web applications, e-mail programs, and other code that use the library are vulnerable to exploits that allow attackers monitoring connections to silently decode encrypted traffic passing between end users and servers.

    The bug is the result of commands in a section of the GnuTLS code that verify the authenticity of TLS certificates, which are often known simply as X509 certificates. The coding error, which may have been present in the code since 2005, causes critical verification checks to be terminated, drawing ironic parallels to the extremely critical “goto fail” flaw that for months put users of Apple’s iOS and OS X operating systems at risk of surreptitious eavesdropping attacks. Apple developers have since patched the bug.

    This is the 2nd major security bug to be found in open source code. Probably safe to say the NSA has known about both of these for some time.

  11. 11.

    ranchandsyrup

    March 4, 2014 at 7:10 pm

    Enjoy it, party people.

  12. 12.

    BruceFromOhio

    March 4, 2014 at 7:12 pm

    Pictures or it didn’t happen.

    Oh! And Happy Fat Tuesday!

  13. 13.

    Patricia Kayden

    March 4, 2014 at 7:21 pm

    Hope y’all New Yorkers have a great time meeting, yapping and chowing down.

  14. 14.

    Tommy

    March 4, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    Hey seems like I can post this here. Maybe the coolest video you will see this month. This year. His name is Danny MacAskill. He does stuff like this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Fa5zAbP9w

    If you have time, well try this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw

    The video of him on his bike is only as good as the music and the visuals.

    Way Back Home is the incredible new riding clip from Danny MacAskill, it follows him on a journey from Edinburgh back to his hometown Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye.

    My family came here from the Isle of Skye back in the 1860s.

  15. 15.

    Tommy

    March 4, 2014 at 7:30 pm

    @BruceFromOhio: Laissez les bons temps rouler.

    I went around saying this all the time today. I actually say it not on days related to Mardis Gras.

    The expression Laissez les bons temps rouler (alternatively Laissez les bon temps rouler, Laissez le bon temps rouler, Laisser les bons temps rouler, and Laisser le bon temps rouler, French pronunciation: ​[lɛse le bɔ̃ tɑ̃ ʁule]) is a Cajun French phrase which is literally translated from the English expression “Let the good times roll.” This phrase is often mentioned when Mardi Gras is celebrated, on local television, and on radio. It is a common phrase in multiple early French Colonial areas.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    March 4, 2014 at 7:37 pm

    @Tommy

    Could describe her casting on the spin-off series a Good Times Rolle role.

    (Ouch.)

  17. 17.

    Tommy

    March 4, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    @NotMax: If I am not mistaken she was a black women. The first to hold the role of a black women in a major sit com.

  18. 18.

    Roxy

    March 4, 2014 at 7:53 pm

    @Tommy: You had me at Edinburgh and Isle of Sky. I saw the first one a couple of years ago. The second one is just as amazing as the first one. Thanks for posting this.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    March 4, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    @Tommy

    Yes, she was African-American (the spin-off came from her playing the maid on Maude (which was also a spin-off).

    Not the first on TV though to have a sitcom lead role*. That would be Diahann Carroll in Julia in 1968.

    *A non-stereotypical black in mass media role. The first African-American woman to star in a TV series sitcom was way back in 1950, in Beulah (which had originated on radio). Ethel Waters and then Hattie McDaniel played the role, a servant (“the queen of the kitchen”) in a white household, on TV.

  20. 20.

    Roxy

    March 4, 2014 at 7:59 pm

    @Tommy: Diahann Carroll. She starred in Julia (1968), one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role.

    ETA: Oops. NotMax beat me to it.

  21. 21.

    Tommy

    March 4, 2014 at 8:01 pm

    @Roxy: My family came here from Scotland. Oh I got stories cause we are letter writers. The stories are amazing. I read these stories and stunned.

  22. 22.

    PsiFighter37

    March 4, 2014 at 8:12 pm

    Sorry friends – not going to be able to make it (out of work a bit late, and have some wedding things I need to circle up on this evening). I promise I will be there next time if I can…I feel like the amount of time sunk into wedding planning is only going to increase as the day draws nearer.

  23. 23.

    BruceFromOhio

    March 4, 2014 at 8:14 pm

    @Tommy:

    Oh I got stories cause we are letter writers.

    Let the stories be told
    They can say what they want
    Let the photos be old
    Let them show what they want

    Let them leave you up in the air
    Let them brush your rock and roll hair
    Let the good times roll

  24. 24.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 4, 2014 at 8:17 pm

    @Dee Loralei: Could you make it to Nashville with sufficient notice? I expect to be passing through in the next several weeks.

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 4, 2014 at 8:19 pm

    @Tommy:

    Isle of Skye

    My most favourite place on the planet. Have you ever visited the Ancestral Isle?

  26. 26.

    Belafon

    March 4, 2014 at 8:22 pm

    @? Martin: “The NSA: Thinking evil thoughts so you don’t have to.”

    I’m not the kind of person who spends his days thinking how evil other people can be. I have other things I’d rather be doing.

  27. 27.

    Tommy

    March 4, 2014 at 9:33 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: No I have not. I ponder that/this. Need to get there.

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 4, 2014 at 10:49 pm

    @Tommy: It is beautiful. It is magic.

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