Tamara S. Dean

sunnyvale, ca

Gender: Male
Interested In: Women
Member since: 2007-03-07 00:00:00
Last log-in: 2007-07-23 00:00:00
Events: 13

Events:

Headliner John Henton from "Living Single," with Drennon Dav...

Date: 2008-06-20 20:00:00

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John Henton found a loyal and endearing following through the lovable and sensible character of "Overton Wakefield Jones" on the FOX hit sitcom Living Single, and the loyalty continued with fans embracing the character of "Milsap" on ABC/UPN's The Hughleys. John's stellar television work has not gone unnoticed, as he was recognized in 2001 and 2002 with an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Cleveland born, John's career was given a serious jump-start with an appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He has since been a favorite on shows such as Politically Incorrect, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Best Damn Sports Show, BET's Comic View and Weekends at the DL.The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson AND Jay Leno!The Arsenio Hall ShowBob Hope's Young Comedian's SpecialShowtime half hour special, John Henton: Comedy With An AttitudeUPN's The Parkers and One on OneThe Rosie O'Donnell ShowTV Land's Top TenBET Comedy AwardsNational Lampoon's Funny Money Click here to see a short clip of John in action.Also appearing: Drennon Davis from NBC's Last Comic Standingand Rachel McDowell.Thursday and Sunday: 8:00 pm, $15 plus 2-item minimumFriday and Saturday: 8:00 pm and 10:30 pm, $20 plus 2-item minimumCall (408) 736-0921 for reservations/phone orders or click to Buy Tickets

Headliner John Henton from "Living Single," with Drennon Dav...

Where: Rooster T Feathers

Date: 2008-06-19 20:00:00

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Headliner Jim McCue with Special Guest Tony Camin and Kellen...

Where: Rooster T Feathers

Date: 2008-06-08 20:00:00

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At six foot six, Jim McCue stands head and shoulders above the sea of 'stick to the script' club comedians. Jim blends thought provoking material and uncanny improv skills in a smooth delivery style. Featured on Comedy Central, Comcast Comedy Spotlight and at the Boston Comedy Festival, Jim also recently returned from entertaining the troops in Iraq. We love him at Rooster's!Click here to see Jim working the crowd.Also appearing: Special guest Tony Camin from Comedy Central and NBC and Kellen Erskine.Friday and Saturday: 8:00 pm and 10:30 pm, $17 plus 2-item minimumSunday: 8:00 pm, $12 plus 2-item minimumCall (408) 736-0921 for reservations/phone orders or click to Buy Tickets

Headliner Jimmy Pardo with John Hoogasian and Kevin Camia

Where: Rooster T Feathers

Date: 2008-06-14 22:30:00

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In addition to his half hour special on Comedy Central, Jimmy’s television credits include: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and as the host of National Lampoon’s Funny Money. Jimmy was also seen on The Surreal Life, Movies At Our House, and That 70’s ShowClick here to see Jimmy on the Craig Ferguson show.Also appearing: John Hoogasian from Comedy Central's Live at Gotham and Kevin Camia also seen on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham.Thursday and Sunday: 8:00 pm, $12 plus 2-item minimumFriday and Saturday: 8:00 pm and 10:30 pm, $17 plus 2-item minimumCall (408) 736-0921 for reservations/phone orders or click to Buy Tickets

Involution Master Academy: Influencing Strategy by Design

Where: Invo HQ

Date: 2007-11-17 00:00:00

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Instructors: Luke Wroblewski and Tom Chi $699 per student This full-day course will teach designers how to contribute to the direction of their company by synthesizing and articulating clear, actionable business and product strategies. Often, growth opportunities for designers are artificially limited by org charts that fail to fully capitalize on the galvanizing role that design can have beyond product or marketing. This course empowers designers by giving them tools to impact strategy by illuminating important decision-drivers like market or user research, web analytics, financials, and product reports. This hands-on course is created for experienced designers, enabling them to influence and improve strategic decision-making within their department or company. They will learn principles for communicating and influencing strategy, along with practicing skills and techniques through group activities, and working directly with Luke and Tom. This course will maximize a designer’s ability to help their organization make better decisions. Key skills include: Pattern recognition Story-telling Information visualization Empathetic articulations of strategy *** LukeW is currently Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc., and Principal of LukeW Interface Designs. Luke authored the book “Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability” and his online publication, Functioning Form, is an industry-leading resource for design intelligence. Luke taught interface design at the University of Illinois and is a top-rated speaker at conferences around the world. Tom Chi is a Senior Principal Designer at Yahoo! and has worked as each of Designer, Product Manager, Developer, and Consultant. He was a key design driver on many products, including Yahoo Answers, the new Yahoo Search, Microsoft Outlook, and several other enterprise applications. Tom is a co-creator of OK/Cancel, and has published over 200 comic strips about user experience in a variety of online and printed publications. Involution Master Academy is the first professional design school that focuses on providing practical, applied, real-world skills in micro-sized classes – never more than nine students per instructor. Every class is taught by a leading expert in their field, providing hands-on learning in a highly interactive setting. Involution Master Academy is specially designed for experienced professionals who take their career seriously.

Memcached Hackathon @ Yahoo Campus

Where: Yahoo!

Date: 2007-12-13 20:00:00

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Hack and code memcached. Active developers from the community will be joining us along with fellow Yahoo's for an all-night hackathon. We are working towards shipping new features and releasing the binary protocol. Drinks and food provided! Building C - Classroom 5 Stay as long as you like until 7am.

A Guided Tour of the YUI Rich Text Editor

Where: Yahoo, Inc.

Date: 2008-01-14 13:00:00

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Note: Event available for Yahoo! employees only. Takes place in Classroom 4, Building C, Sunnyvale campus. In July 2007, we released the YUI Rich Text Editor, a client-side RTE component with strong support for the full range of A-Grade browsers. Since that release, we've been hard at work making it even better (faster, lighter, easier-to-use). With the current 2.4.1 version, YUI's RTE provides you a range of options from very lightweight to very full-featured. And, as always, the RTE is intrinsically extensible. It's Toolbar can be configured precisely to suit your needs, and custom "buttons" can be added that bring in your bespoke functionality. Of course, the Editor itself exposes a wide range of Custom Events that allow you to customize the interaction further. In this special brownbag event, RTE author Dav Glass gives you a guided tour of one of YUI's most important components. He'll discuss: Key unique qualities of YUI's RTE RTE's flexible package structure File-size and performance profile Using the YUI RTE in the real world Extending the RTE Toolbar customization Text filtering What's next for the RTE? Seating is limited, so please put your name on the Attending list on Upcoming to save yourself a spot.

Say hello to TechStars!

Where: Plug and Play Real Estate

Date: 2008-01-24 18:00:00

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On the evening of January 24th, TechStars and the Plug and Play Tech Center are co-hosting a Silicon Valley party for those interested in learning more about TechStars. Please join David Cohen and Brad Feld of TechStars, along with some of our mentors including Jason Mendelson (Managing Director, Foundry Group), Eric Marcoullier (Founder, MyBlogLog), and many more for drinks, appetizers, and good company on the evening of January 24th at 440 N Wolfe Road in Sunnyvale, California, from 6pm - 830pm. Whether you’re thinking of applying to TechStars, want to learn more about it, or just want to share a couple of beers with us - this is your chance! We hope you can join us. Space is limited, and we're tracking RSVPs on Facebook and at TechStars, so we're only allowing 50 people to register here on upcoming.

Norcal PDMA: NONOBJECT, The Space Between You and the Object

Where: Yahoo!

Date: 2008-04-23 18:30:00

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NONOBJECT, the Space Between You and the Object Launch Brave New Product Experiences That Go Far Beyond the Object Itself Presenter: Branko Lukic Meet Branko Lukic, mastermind and avant-garde experience/product designer and founder of NONOBJECT. Drawing from his experience as lead industrial designer at IDEO and FROGDESIGN, he will challenge you to explore innovation opportunities that will create products and services beyond the beaten path. Learn to view design at a more profound level and to think about what is and what might be - an exploration of the future of consumer experiences through design. It offers a new way of thinking about design and innovation - a way which embraces the space between you and the object. Come interact, ask questions and hear stories! A section of the presentation is planned for Q/A's and conversation. Speaker background: Branko Lukic is founder/partner at NONOBJECT INC, which creates new and surprising design experiences for wide spectrum of industries: consumer products, high technologies, sports equipment, furniture, interior designs, alternative fuel transportation and branded web experiences. Previously, he was a designer at frog Design and IDEO where he led projects for clients including Nike, Adidas, Samsung, Intel, Motorola, SAP, HP, Pepsi, Starbucks, Ford, Herman Miller and Nestle. He has won numerous design and branding awards including Business Week IDEA Gold Award, Graphis Design Annual Award, International Design magazine Awards, red dot Awards and the Good Design Award. $25.

BayLISA July General Meeting

Where: Yahoo, Inc.

Date: 2008-07-17 19:00:00

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Topic: What makes a good system administrator? One way to put it is that there are many user groups, but we are the sysadmins group. BayLISA includes system and network administrators across a range of skill levels. BayLISA meets to discuss topics of interest to administrators and managers. The meetings are free and open to the public. BayLISA grew out of an after-hours discussion among attendees of the USENIX LISA IV conference. The idea was to provide a forum for Sysadmin professionals in the San Francisco Bay area to get together and exchange ideas, hear speakers address topics of interest and most importantly, socialize.

BayLISA June General Meeting

Where: Yahoo!

Date: 2008-06-19 19:00:00

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One way to put it is that there are many user groups, but we are the sysadmins group. BayLISA includes system and network administrators across a range of skill levels. BayLISA meets to discuss topics of interest to administrators and managers. The meetings are free and open to the public. BayLISA grew out of an after-hours discussion among attendees of the USENIX LISA IV conference. The idea was to provide a forum for Sysadmin professionals in the San Francisco Bay area to get together and exchange ideas, hear speakers address topics of interest and most importantly, socialize.

Yahoo! Search : SearchMonkey Developer Launch Party

Where: Yahoo!

Date: 2008-05-15 17:30:00

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Yahoo! Search is hosting a SearchMonkey Developer Launch Party on May 15, 2008 (Wed) from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. SearchMonkey is Yahoo!'s new open search developer platform. With SearchMonkey (developers and site owners can use structured data to enhance Yahoo! Search results and make them more useful, relevant, and visually appealing. If you are a web developer, you’re cordially invited to the SearchMonkey Developer Launch Party. Come get the insider scoop of SearchMonkey, see live demos, deep dive on the SDK / documentation of the developer tool, and meet with our product managers and engineers face-to-face . Please join us for a fun evening with free tasty food & beer*! Our venue capacity is limited so please reserve your spot by registering here at Upcoming AND sending your full name and company name to searchmonkeyevent@yahoo-inc.com * If you plan to consume alcohol at our party, please bring your photo ID. Hope to see you there!

PowerVie Boot Camp Sunnyvale - Join our 6:30 class!

Where: De Anza Park

Date: 2008-06-02 06:30:00

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Join PowerVie Boot Camp (formerly Bay Area Boot Camp) and bring your body back into balance this summer! As AlaVie Fitness’s signature program, PowerVie Boot Camp is different from other boot camps that take a military style approach. We pride ourselves on our team-oriented conditioning style, and our coaches are dedicated to creating a supportive environment that helps you achieve immediate and lasting results. Sign up for PowerVie Boot Camp and join us at our upcoming 6:30-7:30am session at De Anza Park from 6/2/2008 - 6/27/2008. All ages and fitness levels are welcome, and you can attend 3, 4, or 5 days/week. For more information, contact us at 415-567-7411.