{"id":19883,"date":"2008-12-10T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/12\/10\/a-bar-on-microsoft-main-campus-what-should-we-call-it\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T10:00:01","slug":"a-bar-on-microsoft-main-campus-what-should-we-call-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081210-01\/?p=19883","title":{"rendered":"A bar on Microsoft main campus? What should we call it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my colleagues discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techflash.com\/microsoft\/34234539.html\"> Seattle bar <i>Spitfire<\/i> is opening a bar on the main Microsoft campus<\/a>, a quick game of <i>Name that bar<\/i> sprung up. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techflash.com\/microsoft\/34471359.html\">Todd Bishop has his suggestions<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p> Here are some names we came up with: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/04\/01\/8346907.aspx\">     <i>Building 7<\/i><\/a>.     It makes the code phrase     &#8220;meeting in Building&nbsp;7&#8221; a reality.     On the other hand, there is     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticbayou.com\/\">     a local bar<\/a>     which has     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/celtic-bayou-redmond#hrid:wjYIG8z-iZgBH89KyQ4Y7w\">     already earned the honorary title <i>Building&nbsp;7<\/i><\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc750081.aspx\">     <i>Blue Screen of Drunkenness<\/i><\/a>,     with local drink     <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com\/digitaljoystick\/archives\/129866.asp\">     <i>Red Ring of Drunkenness<\/i><\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/323\/\">     <i>The Ballmer Peak<\/i><\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <i>Stack Overflow<\/i>. <\/li>\n<li>     <i>Memory Corruption<\/i>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Though I suspect they&#8217;ll just call it <i>Spitfire<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Sidebar<\/b>: Although alcohol is available at many company-sponsored social events, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/10\/11\/479588.aspx#479947\"> there is no pressure to drink an alcoholic beverage<\/a>, and people don&#8217;t even notice one way or the other. (Just like nobody notices that you had the vegetarian appetizers and avoided the meat ones.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my colleagues discovered that Seattle bar Spitfire is opening a bar on the main Microsoft campus, a quick game of Name that bar sprung up. (Todd Bishop has his suggestions.) Here are some names we came up with: Building 7. It makes the code phrase &#8220;meeting in Building&nbsp;7&#8221; a reality. On the other hand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-19883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When my colleagues discovered that Seattle bar Spitfire is opening a bar on the main Microsoft campus, a quick game of Name that bar sprung up. (Todd Bishop has his suggestions.) Here are some names we came up with: Building 7. It makes the code phrase &#8220;meeting in Building&nbsp;7&#8221; a reality. On the other hand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}