just a reminder for anyone planning on coming, it's this saturday! 

happy hacking,
isildur

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Lord Isildur wrote:
> 
> 
> OK, the fourth annual VAX party has been decided. it's on the 16th of 
> november! please rsvp! all are welcome but my house is not extremely large 
> and i want to know how much food and drink to acquire!
> 
> Time: Sat, 16th November, around 20:00. Total vax-geeking earlier, say 17:00.
> Place: Isildurean Domain, in Pittsburgh, PA. See directions below. 
> RSVP: to mrfusion (at) vaxpower (dot) org
> 
> happy hacking,
> isildur
> 
> --- 
> 
> directions to Isildurean Domain:
> 
> 
> from oakland:
> 
> find your way to s. craig street. On forbes coming from pitt, this means 
> making a left after the carnegie museum onto s craig street. From CMU, this
> means making a right at the same intersection, by the uni-mart. 
> 
> >From 5th ave, coming from pitt's direction, make a left onto s craig 
> right after you see the SEI. from sq hill direction, make the right
> when you see SEI across the intersection. 
> 
> follow craig street until it intersects with bigelow boulevard. 
> go forward approx 250 yards, in right lane. make the right onto 
> bloomfield bridge. make a left onto liberty avenue and travel approx .5
> miles until you see 37th street on your right. it will be directly after
> a very cool looking duquesne light substation. follow 37th street for approx. 
> 200 yards. you will cross several side streets and then cross penn avenue. 
> immediately after penn avenue, approx. 65 feet from it, is a small street
> called peoria way. make a right onto it. 
> This dead ends on 38th street. my house is the one that will be directly
> to your right on this corner, #270. find a place to park, usually there
> is space further up onm 38th street towards penn avenue. technically there's
> no parking on peoria way but you can usually get away with parking on the
> _other_ side of it. my side is a fire lane.  I'd try to park on 38th street
> first though. 
> 
> 
> from north:
> 
> if coming down Rt 28, take the 40th street bridge exit and follow the 40th
> street bridge til the light on butler street. make a right onto butler
> street and then drive 2 blocks and make a left onto 38th street. My
> house is approximately 500 feet ahead on the right. 
> 
> if coming down 279,  exit at the east street exit and bear to the left. 
> Make a left at the light with East Ohio street, and stay in the right 
> lane. Make a right at 16th street/chestnut street, and cross the river.
> Make a left onto liberty avenue and follow liberty up to 37th street,
> where you make a left. Follow 37th street for approx. 
> 200 yards. you will cross several side streets and then cross penn avenue. 
> immediately after penn avenue, approx. 65 feet from it, is a small street
> called peoria way. make a right onto it. 
> This dead ends on 38th street. my house is the one that will be directly
> to your right on this corner, #270. find a place to park, usually there
> is space further up onm 38th street towards penn avenue. technically there's
> no parking on peoria way but you can usually get away with parking on the
> _other_ side of it. my side is a fire lane.  I'd try to park on 38th street
> first though. 
> (yes liberty is usually faster than taking rt 28 outbound!!) 
> 
> 
> from east: 
> 
> from very far east: take the penna turnpike (rt 76) westward toward 
> Pittsburgh. Take the 376w/pittsburgh exit (exit 11 (no segv pun intended), i 
> think), and then follow 376W in toward the city. 
> from far east: 
> taking 376 west, exit at the squirrel hill exit, and make a right onto 
> beechwood blvd.this is directly after the big sharp turn in the exit 
> ramp and is an equally sharp turn (effectively a u-turn) from the exit
> to beechwood. travel approx. .35 miles along beechwood and make a right at
> the light by the cogos and the brewsters ice cream place. Cross the bridge
> and bear left through the park. Stay in the right lane and at the light 
> with blvd of the allies, cross b.o.a and go straight until you meet a
> stop sign approx 150 yards ahead. Make a left here, again heading through 
> the park. Go straight at the next stop sign, and then make a left onto
> darlington rd. From there, travel approx. 120 yards and make a left onto the
> golf course road. Travel approx. 250 yards til you intersect with tech street,
> and turn right into CMU. Travel approx. 100 yards until the stop sign and 
> turn right onto margaret-morrison street. At the light with Forbes Avenue,
> turn left onto Forbes. 
> Follow forbes until craig street, where you will see the Carnegie across
> and to your left, and a uni-mart on your right.  mae a right onto s craig st. 
> Follow craig street until it intersects with bigelow boulevard. 
> go forward approx 250 yards, in right lane. make the right onto 
> bloomfield bridge. make a left onto liberty avenue and travel approx .5
> miles until you see 37th street on your right. it will be directly after
> a very cool looking duquesne light substation. follow 37th street for approx. 
> 200 yards. you will cross several side streets and then cross penn avenue. 
> immediately after penn avenue, approx. 65 feet from it, is a small street
> called peoria way. make a right onto it. 
> This dead ends on 38th street. my house is the one that will be directly
> to your right on this corner, #270. find a place to park, usually there
> is space further up onm 38th street towards penn avenue. technically there's
> no parking on peoria way but you can usually get away with parking on the
> _other_ side of it. my side is a fire lane.  I'd try to park on 38th street
> first though. 
> 
> >From near east: 
> from highland park: 
> follow negley avenue southward until penn avenue. make a right onto penn 
> ave. Follow it til 37th street, make a right onto 37th. immediately after, 
> turn right onto the side-street peoria way. This dead-ends on 38th street
> and isildurean domain, #270, is on your right as you stand at that 
> corner. Or, you could go over the hill past the zoo down to Butler st, 
> and take butler all the way in, make a left onto 38th street, and up a 
> block and a half to #270. 
> 
> from east liberty: 
> follow 5th avenue until it intersects with penn ave/Rt 8,
> and then turn left from 5th onto penn, heading towards downtown. Follow
> penn til 37th street, and make a right onto 37th. 
> approx. 65 feet from the corner, is a small street called peoria way.
> make a right onto it. 
> This dead ends on 38th street. my house is the one that will be directly
> to your right on this corner, #270. find a place to park, usually there
> is space further up onm 38th street towards penn avenue. technically there's
> no parking on peoria way but you can usually get away with parking on the
> _other_ side of it. my side is a fire lane.  I'd try to park on 38th street
> first though. 
> (yes liberty is usually faster than taking rt 28 outbound!!) 
> 
> 
> >From south: 
> if crossing on 279, take the liberty avenue exit (right downtown) after the
> bridge. follow liberty avenue all the way to 37th street (approx. 3 miles)
> follow the directions from 279N after this point. 
> If crossing from the liberty tunnels, follow second avenue inbound to the
> downtown area and make a right when it dead-ends at the red light under
> the blvd of the allies ramp. im not sure of the name of this street. 
> follow it through two lights, and then at the stop sign, which should be
> 7th avenue, make a left. Mellon Bank center should be on your left, and 
> USX tower should be ahead of you. Turn right onto grant street, and follow
> grant until it merges into Liberty Ave. Follow the directions from liberty 
> avenue given in other sections. 
> 
> from west: if you're coming from the far west, you're probably coming into
> the area on 76, the turnpike. It passes by pittsburgh about 30 miles out, so
> either way you get off of it, you have to take some other roads. 
> Your options are to take the earliest pgh exit, which goes to rt 60, 
> occasionally labelled as going to the airport, and pass the airport by 
> and then get on 279 heading north, then follow the directions above from 
> south on 279. Or, you could stay on and get off at the cranberry/rt 79 
> exit. Then you'd come down on 79 south to 279 south. At the east ohio 
> street exit, get off of 279 south and stay in the left lane. Then, make 
> the left onto east ohio street and get into the _right_ lane. At the next 
> big intersection, youll come to 16th street, also called chestnut street 
> there. Make a right onto it. Youll cross the alleghenny river on the 16th 
> st bridge, and come to a light on penn ave. go straight, the next light 
> is liberty ave. make a left onto liberty and follow the above directions 
> in 'from the south' along liberty. Finally, you could stay on 76 until 
> the 376 exit, which would be way out of your way, and take the 'from the 
> east' directions. When i travel west, i usually go the cranberry route. 
> 
> >From the moon: 
> land rocket at intersection of penn ave and 38th street, being careful not
> to burn my house down with rocket exhaust in the process. walk down
> 38th street to #270. 
> 
> >From china: buy a bigger shovel. 
>