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Offer HN: Friendship in the Valley?
I kind of feel retarded for posting on here, but I'm starting to go out of my mind doing everything by myself, and looking for buddies on CL/okcupid seems weird to me. I'll try to keep this simple.
I just moved here to work at SLAC from SLC, Utah a month ago, and most of the people I know are physicists twice my age. In true nerd form, the idea of meeting a ton of new people by myself gives me some anxiety, a bit more than the thought of me trying to sell myself online to a bunch of strangers.
Anyways, I need new friends. I've got a ton to offer, but the most relevant thing, the reason this is really an offer, is probably the fact that I have a car and I'm not afraid to use it (i.e. driving to the city for whatever). Also, I'm 100% down for food adventures, beer (first round is on me), live music, movies.
- scrrr 16y agoYou will probably meet more interesting people here than on okCupid. I like this offer and would go for a beer with you if I was in that area.
- rms 16y agoTry posting an intro message on SF Redditors.. it's a very friendly group. http://groups.google.com/group/SFredditors/ http://groups.google.com/group/SFredditors/
- juiceandjuice 16y agoThanks, I just joined... waiting to be approved.
- fbailey 16y agocan't help you, but it's absolutely understandable and not at all retarded :)
- bigiain 16y agoCan I suggest Dorkbot? http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/ http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/ Their tagline is "People doing strange things with electricity" - in my experience you end up with a fascinating crowd of people hovering somewhere on the borderline of hardware geeks, software geeks, artists, and pranksters. They've got a meeting next Wednesdsay in SF - I've made some _great_ friends via Dorkbot in SF as well as Sydney (where I live) and Seattle. (If you go, find Karen and tell her Big says "Hi!", and there might be an Australian girl named Pia visiting, tell her I say Hi too!)
- util 16y agoLots going on at Noisebridge in SF: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge In particular, you might want to check out Five Minutes of Fame next week (8 p.m., Thursday). Could be a good opportunity to bump into some interesting people.