Berkeley abides

[calimac]

I spent much of yesterday in Berkeley, researching for the local guide for Mythcon, looking for ATMs, pharmacies, coffee vendors, and the like. A lot of this work can be done online, but much of it needs to be eyeballed. Listings for a retail establishment on third-party sites are no guarantee that it's still actually there. Likewise, I wouldn't trust a third-party compilation list of ATMs, and while a bank's own listing is probably up to date, I don't know which banks to check until I see that they're there.

We aren't doing a restaurant guide, because meals are being served on-campus at Clark Kerr, our site. Those few people who haven't pre-reg'd for meals can be pointed in the directions of Elmwood and Telegraph, and they'll do all right.

There are certainly a lot more restaurants in Elmwood than I'd realized. Nepalese, eh? I'll have to try that one sometime.

But although we'll have a dealers' room, bookstores are on our must-have list, because this is Mythcon. I don't intend to list all the bookstores in Berkeley, because that would take up too much space. Just our favorites. And I'd better mention about Cody's, since some of our out-of-town people who remember it from our last Mythcon six years ago may not have heard.

Maybe I should have done this last week, to see the sights. The eager crowds ... the lines of costumed children ... the people in saffron robes chanting "Harry Potter, Harry Potter, Harry Harry Potter Potter" ...

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm fun! And coming closer....

I gotta look at the map soon, and get logistics in order.

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

Hee. I loved that last line. I can just see it.
(As part of the population who attended a book party at Borders, it was ... intense. Very cool, but intense. I *had* to go, just to see what a pop culture phenom was like.)

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

You're smart to check the ATM locations for yourself. When we were in NYC last February, I had a check I needed to deposit to my credit union account. I checked online to find out where I could deposit it, only to find after I stood in line for a security badge (with iPhoto!) that although the McGraw-Hill Credit Union was indeed located in the building they listed, it only serves its own members.