Discussion of Firms and Life in SF/SV

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Spanky
That is how you tell the difference between Japanese and Chinese words. Japanese speech and words are stacato. That is why Japanese pronunciation is pretty easy (although the Grammar is unbelievably complicated).

Yamashita
Kobeyashi
Hitachi
Tengu
Bushido
kanazawa
Hiroshima
nagasaki

Where Chinese and Korean words are not stacatto. They use many more vowels and different tones can completely change meaning. However, I hear their grammer is just like English. Subject verb Object (or subject compliment).

Anyone know any Chinese words.

I just know Gung Hey fat choy (which in Japanese is Gungu Heya fatu choya)

I ya! Gun lung jun lay jun hi mo yung!

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
I ya! Gun lung jun lay jun hi mo yung!

Yes, Hank's wife really is "limber". Welcome to the club, npi.

[c2ed]

Originally posted by Spanky
Where Chinese and Korean words are not stacatto. They use many more vowels and different tones can completely change meaning. However, I hear their grammer is just like English. Subject verb Object (or subject compliment).

Anyone know any Chinese words.

I'm no expert in either Chinese or Korean, but have taken courses at a local college in Mandarin and learned some Korean for a trip. They're not like English, grammatically-speaking. Perhaps they're closer to English than Japanese (which I've never studied in any way), but to say it's just like English is not accurate.

Kamsa Hamnida*



*"thank you," in Korean

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Looks like I'll be in Palo Alto overnight on Feb. 2, maybe Feb. 1 as well. Any bay area types up for drinks and/or food?

Alternatively, any Palo Alto restuarant recs? And is the Westin worth $75 per night more than the Sheraton?

[SlaveNoMore]

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Looks like I'll be in Palo Alto overnight on Feb. 2, maybe Feb. 1 as well. Any bay area types up for drinks and/or food?

Alternatively, any Palo Alto restuarant recs? And is the Westin worth $75 per night more than the Sheraton?

Why not stay up in the City on 2/1?

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Why not stay up in the City on 2/1?

A distinct possibility.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Looks like I'll be in Palo Alto overnight on Feb. 2, maybe Feb. 1 as well. Any bay area types up for drinks and/or food?

Alternatively, any Palo Alto restuarant recs? And is the Westin worth $75 per night more than the Sheraton?

While it has been a couple of years, the best hotel deal in Silicon Valley is the Holiday Inn Express on El Camino Royale in Mountain View, at least if you're spending your own dough. Sounds strange, yes, but the rooms are big (junior suites, with seperate workspace and couch) and fairly nice, with the SV standard highspeed access, etc., for less than $100 a night. Plus it includes a free breakfast buffet.

Otherwise, I'm pretty sure all the business class hotels in Palo Alto are all the same anonymous boxes. Pick whichever.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Looks like I'll be in Palo Alto overnight on Feb. 2, maybe Feb. 1 as well. Any bay area types up for drinks and/or food?

Alternatively, any Palo Alto restuarant recs? And is the Westin worth $75 per night more than the Sheraton?

I'm around and up for anything. I actually live in Palo Alto. I like the Stanford Park Hotel, but being this is my hometown I haven't stayed in many hotels around here. .

I know all the good restaurants. There are lots of them here considering the wealth and the ethnic diversity. You can get good food from almost any nationality.

However, if possible, I would recommend staying in the city (San Francisco). There are many more GAs up there. San Francisco +Less + Slave etc. = interesting. Palo Alto + Spanky = boring.

[Spanky]

Check this out. On Saturday night (Sunday morning) I am driving home from a night of drunken debauchery with Less and Slave and I come across a deer lying down in the road that refused to get up and move. I get out of the car and realized it is injured. It must have been hit.

I pick it up and throw it in the trunk of my car (which it did not appreciate very much). Left the trunk open and take it down to the Adobe animal hospital. After being lectured to about how I was supposed to leave the animal in the road and call animal control, I offered to pay for the medical care. I WAS TOLD THAT THE CITY OF PALO ALTO WILL AUTOMATICALLY COVER IT. Can you believe that? I just can't imagine that too many cities have that policy.

I ditched before the cops showed up because I didn't want any questions about how much I had been drinking.

Just another night in Spanky land.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

I love that it took Spanky exactly 12 minutes to prove himself wrong.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Spanky
Palo Alto + Spanky = boring.

But + + + + = CRAZY DELICIOUS!

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Gattigap
But + + + + = CRAZY DELICIOUS!

Great post, but for you and others I'm pretty sure the equation should read "- cash".

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Great post, but for you and others I'm pretty sure the equation should read "- cash".

Just so you know, str8's been wearing this T for a while now:

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Just so you know, str8's been wearing this T for a while now:

Did he lose a (non-monetary) bet?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Great post, but for you and others I'm pretty sure the equation should read "- cash".

Gatti,

Flinty let me in on a little secret last night. His plan is to try to see every flop as cheaply as possible.

You can buy me a drink with your winnings when you get back to LA.

Cheers!
ncs