Not to mention that the SkyTrain will get you to Main in 3 minutes, and there your options increase exponentially.

-Sean

On Mar 14, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Paul Joseph wrote:

> Here's a few pubs and brewpubs that have decent beers and are within easy
> walking distance to the proposed hotel in Vancouver:
> 
> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&cd=1&ei=-VGdS4uGJo-wsQOq-pypAw&sig2=BLolHm_6heW_NehsLNNrKQ&ie=UTF8&view=map&ved=0CE0QgAc&msa=0&msid=109855744217088022882.000481c8f6f4132c0f138&ll=49.282588,-123.113523&spn=0.015061,0.038581&z=15
> 
> Not to mention, walking is good for you!
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Edward M. Corrado <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> 
>> Having been to Vancouver recently, I can tell you getting to brew pubs
>> takes a lot of walking.
>> 
>> Edward
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Schwartz, Raymond wrote:
>> 
>>> +1
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Rod McFarland
>>> Sent: Sun 3/14/2010 3:31 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for Code4Lib 2011 host is OPEN
>>> Edward M. Corrado wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Michael J. Giarlo wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Folks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I respect all of your points of view, but you have been going about
>>>>> this all wrong.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here's some data on brewpub density from Yelp.
>>>>> 
>>>>>   New Haven: http://bit.ly/b4vZBP (4)
>>>>>   Bloomington: http://bit.ly/aOJ6KW (7)
>>>>>   Vancouver: http://bit.ly/9p6Fgs (20)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> But you need to divide this by population (population comes from
>>>> Wikipedia) - which gives you:
>>>> 
>>>> Vancouver: 1 brew pub per 30593 people
>>>> New Haven: 1 brew pub per 31000 people
>>>> Bloomington: 1 brew pub per 10322 people.
>>>> 
>>>> This makes Bloomington the clear choice.
>>>> 
>>>> Edward
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Now you can all make an informed decision.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Mike
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> I think Mike was right originally; we'd be interested in the geographic
>>> density of brew pubs in the easily-accessible area. I'm not sure how much of
>>> a factor brew pubs per capita would be, other than to predict potential
>>> crowding.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Rod
>>> 
>>> 
>>