What do you do for fun on Friday, Saturday nights?
I love meeting entrepreneurs and hackers, or just motivated and brilliant people in general.
From my experience, the best time to make friends is during recreational activities as suppose to conferences. I could be wrong since I have been to far less conferences than "parties".
Thus, I'd like to conduct a survey to see what fun and social activities you guys do on Friday and Saturday nights.
Eventually, it will be nice to have a comprehensive data set, but let's just start with activities and places first.
Thank you for your input.
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I pay $60/month for climbing (in Maryland), or it's $16 to go once. Rental harness and shoes is about $9. The prices fluctuate depending on the gym you go to though. Mine offers classes sometimes too, so if you want to take those it will be more money, but by all means they're not required. Try to find a local rock gym; googling works fine and searching climbing forums.
I go with a few coworkers who also caught the climbing bug, there are also always regulars at the gym who you get to know after a while and I sometimes meet new people at the gym to belay me. (You can't really climb by yourself as you need a person to support you on the ground ['belay'] unless you're bouldering. Bouldering is close to the ground and is generally more inventive and harder as the problems (a problem is a set of hand/foot holds that you have to traverse to complete a route in bouldering) tend to be very technical. For more actual explanation on how everything works, wikipedia is a great resource, or alternatively, you can just contact me.
It's a great hobby, in my opinion. Good for physical development, good for meeting new people and very rewarding as you see yourself progress to harder climbs.
I'm seriously considering taking it on.
It's a hell of a lot of fun, keeps you in shape, gets you outside and away from the computer, etc.
Pretty much every major city, and many smaller cities, have local parkour communities. Just search Google for "parkour MY_CITY".
And if you live in Toronto, Canada, come join us at pkto.ca
From my experience, the best way to quickly become friends with someone is to share a couple beers with them. Plenty of business, coding, and good general technical discussion can follow later.
1) Go to a tech event on a weeknight, meet with people in a "formal" setting. 2) Conversation drifts to non-tech interests, comraderie develops 3) THEN on a Friday or Saturday night, I meet up with some of these same people in a more social setting
In addition:
4) ??? 5) Profit!
We live in San Francisco and tend to go see friends for dinner or drink, or meet them out some where. Sometimes we go to tech-event after-parties. I know and work with a bunch of guys who bring their wives/gfs who talk to each other while we talk shop.
I know, I know. Wild times, right? I enjoy it a lot, though. You get to use your brain, it's very competitive, and the social interaction is great.
EDIT: It's been out a couple years now, and is going pretty strong. Check it out if you get a chance.
People who've played lots of Magic say that the WoW card game is a better game than Magic, for what it's worth.
EDIT: Oh, I misread your question. Why? Well, it's sort of like the difference between driving a car and riding a bike. A bike isn't a crappy car, it's fundamentally different, with its own set of strengths.
Also, the collectible card game is NOT a simulation or re-creation of the online game. It's more like Magic set in the WoW universe.
Unfortunately. (or fortunately depending on the perspective) I still don't have the time for the second one.
Being a student (hs) means weekends are prime time for working.
Friday nights, we usually have band practice or a show somewhere, followed by drinking and hanging out with fans and friends. Saturday nights are usually filled with more partying or taking my girlfriend on a date.
I've spent many many weekends over the past few years working straight through on my startup, but since we've started to turn the corner of profitability, I've stopped doing that.
Now that I'm working on a start-up I stopped playing music.
Hopefully I will get to the position you're at now.
During the week we guide you through an introduction process with a group of around 20 other local people. The introduction process ends on Friday. When you find someone you are interested in we help you set up a meeting.
For those not familiar with Contra Dancing, it is a called set dance vaguely reminiscent of Square Dancing, but the scene is very different. A very eclectic group of people from all walks of life attend. Most everyone is friendly and it is a great way to meet people.
I usually go out and salsa dance once a week.
Also there is the Six Hour Startup Group that I run, http://sixhourstartup.com which hosts events on Sundays at one of the local bars.
We also have a Startup Drinks organization (Last Friday of every month, http://seattle.startupdrinks.com) and Hops and Chops www.hopsandchops.com (Every Thursday Night).
Found this in the FAQ of http://sixhourstartup.com "frequently the best results come from the .NET developer who tries his hand at writing web copy, or from the marketer who’s never done any marketing before."
A marketer who's never done marketing before! Impressive!
:)
I used to roll my own weekly salsa dance social. I was surprised how many hackers showed up regularly.
Now that I moved to Berkeley, I have to start from scratch again.
Social scene is during the day. Saturday I spend playing rugby and hanging out with the club, no working. Sunday I have no-pressure brunch with my closest friends. Sunday afternoon I get a massage, and Sunday night is one of most productive coding sessions of the week - decompressing your brain for a couple days does amazing things.
Friday night I head home, cook dinner, play with my dogs, fire up the woodburning stove if it's chilly, and read a book. Maybe call a friend or an out of state family member on the phone.
Saturday night I head out to "Guy's Night" with one or two friends - grab dinner out, head home, watch a DVD.
It sounds boring as hell, but it's exactly what I want to do.
either dating them, or chasing them around?