[Lug-nuts] Re: Proposed meetup venue: Bel Air #502

Here are some photos/videos. Jpegs are straight from my phone camera, but the videos have been re-encoded in AV1/Opus for size. If all else fails, Firefox should know how to open them. Hopefully this email is still small enough to skirt under your providers size limits (fingers crossed) :p. sen-h. On 12/1/23 23:08, Sen Hastings wrote: > Howdy Y'all, > > I just got back from a dry run using the "Something Extra Gather Room" > at the Bel Air #502 on Arden and Eastern. > > The address is 4320 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 and the gmaps page is: > > https://maps.app.goo.gl/eBKZdheFGPSeDXFk7 > > I thought to do a dry run to sus out the AV setup and get a general lay > of the land, suffice to say I am VERY impressed. The SEGR is located > immediately inside to the left of the left most entrance, right in "THE > TAPROOM" area. It's one of those rooms where the walls are made of > partially frosted glass panels. > > Coffee, beer, desserts and charcuterie are available at the nearby > counter,but you can also walk across the store and get something from > the deli if you want something more meal shaped. Just remember to > actually buy the food before you eat it. :p > > The AV setup is a BIG tv with a BIG soundbar attached. The power button > for the TV is on the bottom edge in the center,so you have to wedge your > fingies between the tv and the soundbar to get at it. Once the TV is on, > some inputs can be switched and some sort of cable/broadcast tv box can > be controlled via the Crestron tablet thing on top of the media cabinet. > The pincode for the Crestron tablet is the store # twice, literally: > "502502". HDMI in is on the right side of the media cabinet. If you > really really want you can also plug into either HDMI 1 or DVI directly > on the tv, but then you only get audio from the crappy TV speakers and > not the nice sound bar. > > The store wifi *seemed* to be ok, measuring at ~100Mb symmetric, but > then I had issues connecting to some ubuntu repos? I fell back to the > wifi hotspot on my phone which also worked p well, which tells me the > area has good T-Mobile coverage. > > From what I can gather the room isn't used much and the staff there seem > pretty chill, so no ones gonna yell at us if we show up a little early > and leave a little late. > > And the best part (aside from the beer) is that the 2hr booking cost $0. > > This is absolutely my vote for the December meeting, but let me know > what y'all think. Shout out to Gary for the idea, I had *no idea* > meeting rooms in Raley's were a thing. > > I'll send a follow up email with some photos/videos attached of the venue. > > Cheers, > > Sen-h. > > _______________________________________________ > Lug-nuts mailing list -- lug-nuts(a)bigbrie.com > To unsubscribe send an email to lug-nuts-leave(a)bigbrie.com >

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