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WWDC Is Once Again Held In San Jose, A.k.a. The Best City Ever And Nobody Can Tell Me Otherwise
조회 수 1 추천 수 0 2020.07.19 01:11:13Fun fact, its basement used to be a jail, and it's haunted by a ghost (not the Winchester ones). Trials Pub: Though not as central in downtown, this pub is great if you're looking for something chill. People can't decide if the ghost is a warden or a prisoner, but it probably has ace taste in beers by now and is a Premiere League fan.
It's a Victorian mansion built for widowed gun heiress Sarah Winchester. Places to go
Winchester Mystery House: As an SJ native, I am contractually obligated to shoehorn the Mystery House into any conversation about San Jose.
Places to drink
Old Wagon Saloon: OWS' saloon theme and beer pong tables (per request) attract a lot of bro-y clientele, but it can still be fun. It's where I learned to play shuffleboard, and my friends and I have a tradition of eating post-Thanksgiving-Thanksgiving-dinner there to this day, so it holds a special place in my heart.
So if you still want tasty burritos but want a tad chiller ambiance, walk over to Iguana's nearby. There are two locations and both get sloppy after midnight. It's famous for its delicious orange sauce that you should drizzle on everything. La Victoria Taqueria: La Vics is the closest to an SF Mission burrito™ you can get.
Go to Dac Phuc for the pho (note: It's closed on Mondays), Vung Tau for the downtown location and Com Ga Nam An for the Hainanese chicken. Oh and yes, the service is aloof, but deal with it. Not every place is spectacular, but even mediocre Viet food in SJ is better than anything you'll find elsewhere (including SF). Any Vietnamese restaurant, anywhere: Along with LA, SJ has the best Vietnamese food in California.
So if you're one of the lucky ones to have to visit San Jose because your job depends on it, or you didn't realize that was where you were going before you applied for the ticket lottery, here's CNET's guide to WWDC 2019 as it rises again in downtown San Jose.
Don't ask me how I know. Lick Observatory: Located on top of Mount Hamilton, it featured the world's largest telescope back in its heyday. Make sure you visit during operating hours though, because you will get stopped for trespassing by that one cop who's up there on Mt.
Places to eat
San Pedro Square Market: dất đai vũng tàu This indoor food market is similar to San Francisco's Ferry Building, but much smaller. If you plan to party through the night, know that it closes early at midnight like a loser. It's still cool though, and it has lots of food vendors and bars to accommodate large groups.
Santana Row: Nearby Winchester is a bougie outdoor mall. I go there to look at things I can't afford, touch the expensive washi paper at the Japanese stationary store Maido while the cashier eyes me and sit alone outside eating overpriced yogurt from Pinkberry.
I would know because I use words like poppin'. Silicon Valley Comic Con and Facebook's F8 were held there; we're home to supersexy tech companies that make headlines every day, like Cisco Systems and Western Digital; and legendary punk rock band No Use For a Name is from there (RIP, Tony Sly). But one should be so honored to visit the third-biggest city in California (and 10th in the US) because it's really poppin'.
Steve Wozniak went here after getting kicked out of another university for hacking its computers. And I can personally attest that the school's outdoor benches are especially comfortable for napping between classes. In 1984, Steve Jobs unveiled the original Apple Macintosh at De Anza. De Anza College: Yes, De Anza is technically in Cupertino, but it's still close enough for Apple fans to visit for its place in tech history.
Cinebar: What used to be a super divey, cash-only bar that served $7 LCs with a heavy pour (don't ask what's in it), Cinebar has since been remodeled with some skate theme. It may not have the same charm as it used to have, but at least it's cleaner and roomier now?
You've probably heard about it because of the 2018 movie "Winchester," which is basically a documentary that is 100 percent accurate and stars Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke and some kid that walks around with a bag over his head (I'm serious).
It's the most historically famous thing we got, so just go so you can say you went, OK? Stairs that went nowhere, hidden rooms and decoy bathrooms so the ghosts didn't know where to poop. Convinced she was being haunted by ghosts as well as low-key annoyed by bag-head walker, Sarah Winchester continuously built out the house to confuse the ghosts. Tours are given out daily to underwhelmed out-of-towners and local schoolkids.
Though the audience sounded excited enough about the devices, it was to the collective dread of the developer community and press that the event was once again being held in San Jose, California. Apple's kicked off its WWDC developers conference on Monday, introducing several products and software updates including the Apple Pro Display XDR, MacOS Catalina and iOS 13, and the new Mac Pro. Yes, just like the last couple of years when the company ceased its 12-year run in San Francisco in 2017, Apple forced thousands against their will to descend upon this great giant suburb.
It's a Victorian mansion built for widowed gun heiress Sarah Winchester. Places to goWinchester Mystery House: As an SJ native, I am contractually obligated to shoehorn the Mystery House into any conversation about San Jose.
Places to drink
Old Wagon Saloon: OWS' saloon theme and beer pong tables (per request) attract a lot of bro-y clientele, but it can still be fun. It's where I learned to play shuffleboard, and my friends and I have a tradition of eating post-Thanksgiving-Thanksgiving-dinner there to this day, so it holds a special place in my heart.
So if you still want tasty burritos but want a tad chiller ambiance, walk over to Iguana's nearby. There are two locations and both get sloppy after midnight. It's famous for its delicious orange sauce that you should drizzle on everything. La Victoria Taqueria: La Vics is the closest to an SF Mission burrito™ you can get.
Go to Dac Phuc for the pho (note: It's closed on Mondays), Vung Tau for the downtown location and Com Ga Nam An for the Hainanese chicken. Oh and yes, the service is aloof, but deal with it. Not every place is spectacular, but even mediocre Viet food in SJ is better than anything you'll find elsewhere (including SF). Any Vietnamese restaurant, anywhere: Along with LA, SJ has the best Vietnamese food in California.
So if you're one of the lucky ones to have to visit San Jose because your job depends on it, or you didn't realize that was where you were going before you applied for the ticket lottery, here's CNET's guide to WWDC 2019 as it rises again in downtown San Jose.
Don't ask me how I know. Lick Observatory: Located on top of Mount Hamilton, it featured the world's largest telescope back in its heyday. Make sure you visit during operating hours though, because you will get stopped for trespassing by that one cop who's up there on Mt.
Places to eat
San Pedro Square Market: dất đai vũng tàu This indoor food market is similar to San Francisco's Ferry Building, but much smaller. If you plan to party through the night, know that it closes early at midnight like a loser. It's still cool though, and it has lots of food vendors and bars to accommodate large groups.
Santana Row: Nearby Winchester is a bougie outdoor mall. I go there to look at things I can't afford, touch the expensive washi paper at the Japanese stationary store Maido while the cashier eyes me and sit alone outside eating overpriced yogurt from Pinkberry.
I would know because I use words like poppin'. Silicon Valley Comic Con and Facebook's F8 were held there; we're home to supersexy tech companies that make headlines every day, like Cisco Systems and Western Digital; and legendary punk rock band No Use For a Name is from there (RIP, Tony Sly). But one should be so honored to visit the third-biggest city in California (and 10th in the US) because it's really poppin'.
Steve Wozniak went here after getting kicked out of another university for hacking its computers. And I can personally attest that the school's outdoor benches are especially comfortable for napping between classes. In 1984, Steve Jobs unveiled the original Apple Macintosh at De Anza. De Anza College: Yes, De Anza is technically in Cupertino, but it's still close enough for Apple fans to visit for its place in tech history.
Cinebar: What used to be a super divey, cash-only bar that served $7 LCs with a heavy pour (don't ask what's in it), Cinebar has since been remodeled with some skate theme. It may not have the same charm as it used to have, but at least it's cleaner and roomier now?
You've probably heard about it because of the 2018 movie "Winchester," which is basically a documentary that is 100 percent accurate and stars Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke and some kid that walks around with a bag over his head (I'm serious).
It's the most historically famous thing we got, so just go so you can say you went, OK? Stairs that went nowhere, hidden rooms and decoy bathrooms so the ghosts didn't know where to poop. Convinced she was being haunted by ghosts as well as low-key annoyed by bag-head walker, Sarah Winchester continuously built out the house to confuse the ghosts. Tours are given out daily to underwhelmed out-of-towners and local schoolkids.
Though the audience sounded excited enough about the devices, it was to the collective dread of the developer community and press that the event was once again being held in San Jose, California. Apple's kicked off its WWDC developers conference on Monday, introducing several products and software updates including the Apple Pro Display XDR, MacOS Catalina and iOS 13, and the new Mac Pro. Yes, just like the last couple of years when the company ceased its 12-year run in San Francisco in 2017, Apple forced thousands against their will to descend upon this great giant suburb.
