Saturday, May 26, 2007
assumptions
there are two things that i've discovered so far that have put tiny dents in my preconceived vision of eugene as a hippie liberal utopia. the first is that there is no universal free wi-fi. luckily, there is"free" wi-fi at my house: we are borrowing it from someone somewhere around here named ernest. the second thing is that there is only one restaurant or bar here with a patio where i can bring otis! there are several places with outdoor areas, but also with very un-liberal dog policies. in portland i could go to the lucky lab, amnesia, tin shed, etc., etc... here there is only the villard street pub, over by the university of oregon, where matt's business partner's girlfriend is the bar manager. it's a nice place with a big, dog-friendly patio (about the size of amnesia's). so it's still all good. :) and i still have a lot more discovering and exploring to do. but now i'm going to portland for the weekend. yay!
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you crak me up with your "free" internet
-t
well...it's flying through the air into my house, so it's free! just like radio stations ;)
i'm tempted to give you an economics lecture about public goods and free riders, but given that wi-fi isn't truly a public good (meaning that if he wanted to, ernest could exclude you from his wi-fi by enabling a security code), the lecture wouldn't really be applicable. it's very easy to put a security code on one's wi-fi, so when people don't, i usually assume it's because they want to share. so i say go for it!
oh, and about eugene being a hippy liberal utopia, i'm kind of surprised about the dog thing too, but i guess it's also just a lot smaller than portland, so there are less of all types of amenities, even the hippy-ish ones.
matt has brought up wanting to start a pub once the brewery gets stable and prosperous (like in several years) and having it be a doggie-friendly place. he also wants otis to be "brew dog" and hang out with him at work. otis needs to get his ADHD under control first!
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