Crazy idea: if the tables are full at Little Oddfellows, consider going next door to Oddfellows Prime.

@1, then Dan wouldn't have time to bitch about people doing what he famously does all over the hill.

Hope you'all brighten up and get nice before Thanksgiving.

what about all the non-shooting work being done in the rainier valley? don't you care about that?

It's almost like some asshole decided to encourage massive laptop camping at this establishment and turn it into a cafe that loses money. They should be hunted down and punished.... or made to clean the office fridge with their tongue.

http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/20…
"I went to the opening party for Little Oddfellows, the Linda-owned enterprise that's replacing Elliott Bay Cafe, ... Plus, despite its spotty wi-fi, uncomfortable table situations, and drippy cups, I patronized Elliott Bay Cafe four out of every seven days in grad school, so I was interested to see whether or not they fucked up the aspects of the shop that I loved.

I loved EBC because (1) there was an outlet beneath every other table, ...

Despite these qualities, reportedly, the cafe was losing money. So Linda ... stuffed EBC into a hat and pulled out Little Oddfellows, a space that keeps everything that was great about the old place and improves on a few flaws from the old model.

Little Oddfellows opened to the public a few minutes ago, at 10 a.m."

Guilty as charged. My cup of coffee was three-hours-old, I was alone at a table with a laptop, I saw Dan see me. Coworking spaces are expensive, coffee is cheap, and I can't get anything done sitting on the stairs at the skate shop. Sorry, Dan.

@Dan: next time, just ask us to make some room. We won't bite for fuck's sake.

Dan does his part to uphold the passive-aggressive traditions of this great metropolis.

Share a table at a Dershang joint? I guess this would be a good time to quote Linda's favorite book, on the topic of sharing:

“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous sharing. But now we are taught to throw everything within us into public light and common pawing. To seek joy in meeting halls. We haven't even got a word for the quality I mean--for the self-sufficiency of man's spirit. It's difficult to call it selfishness or egotism, the words have been perverted, they've come to mean Peter Keating. Gail, I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once--and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that. Now I know what it is. A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters.

--Mic drop, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Oh fuck, I'm such a looter. It's not The Fountainhead, it's Atlas Shrugged. Here a bit on why you can find your own damn table or else fuck off at a Linda's:

You have been called anti-social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads. You have been called ruthless for the strength and self-discipline of your drive to your purpose. You have been called greedy for the magnificence of your power to create wealth. You, who've expended an inconceivable flow of energy, have been called a parasite. You, who've created abundance where there had been nothing but wastelands and helpless, starving men before you, have been called a robber. You, who've kept them all alive, have been called an exploiter. You, the purest and most moral man among them, have been sneered at as a 'vulgar materialist.' Have you stopped to ask them: by what right?—by what code?—by what standard [do you dare demand I share my fucking table]?

When did she turn into a Randroid?

Seems clear that if the cafe can't make enough money because people sit singly at tables for hours with only one cup of coffee, then it will go out of business, and those people won't be able to do that anymore.

I really don't get the not sharing tables thing. In Europe we never sit at an empty table if there are seats at an occupied one. All you have to do is ask to join them, you're not expected to talk to the other(s) at the table of you don't want to. Why make more work and expense for the cafe?