So tonight I went to another Django meetup at Yelp: “Django 1.7 And You” – Andrew Godwin was the speaker and talked about migrations being moved into core (of course), app loading, and other new things I hadn’t heard about like the system check framework and custom lookups when using the mighty QuerySet filter().
There, out of nowhere while I was sitting down I noticed to my left Jason Monberg! I hadn’t seen him in years ever since we worked at MarkLogic! I said hi after the talk, and we had a fun little conversation and he mentioned he worked steps away from the building.
Afterwords, I rode a bike (my fav) back to my car parked at 8th and Bryant and did some Lyfts:
- Think my first ride was someone on Townsend and the Adobe building (where I’ve went to meetups too!) near Caltrain, and I took her to somewhere in Hayes Valley
- Then my next ride was awfully memorable: she was an indian girl who went to Gunn where I went to high school! She graduated in 2000 and lived in Los Altos Hills. I brought up random names of teachers, like Ms. Gill and Bio, but she forgot all their names. We drove from like Van Ness to the Hilton in the Embarcadero on Market.
- After that, I drove home and turned my thing on in Palo Alto. There, I got pinged right in front of the Pennisula Creamery and picked up this guy who just got here from New York earlier today. Turns out, he was a Python programmer, and knew about Django. He did brain imaging stuff. I brought up being intimately familiar with it too, having actually *done* an MRI and angiogram and stuff. I told him my AVM story. It was a far ride: from downtown Palo Alto to San Jose near SJSU where he was staying at an Airbnb place.
- My last ride were 3 guys who recently graduated from college and watched the Sharks game. The Sharks had just lost game 7 after being up 3-0 in the series, meaning they had just completed an epic fail playoff meltdown. They were fun and semi drunk, and so were heckling LA Kings fans from inside the car. They were going to Campbell. I tried to use Waze, but for some reason it wasn’t working weirdly, so I indicated to guide me. The first ramp to 880 was closed, so we wound up driving to nearby Santa Clara University where I mentioned I knew the area since I went to school there. Turns out, these 3 guys actually had gone to SCU too! I deluged them with my SCU knowledge and asked them if they had done a capstone project too. They actually did their capstone all together! All in all, it was a fun little (drunk) conversation, and I wound up dropping em off at some *other* bar in Campbell