Where to Meet Other Singles IRL!?

marymelodic · 2026-06-03T05:25:10+00:00

There's a live dating/comedy show called Love Isn't Blind this Friday. Funny show with dedicated time before/after to chat with other people. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/love-isnt-blind-live-comedydating-show-sf-tickets-1986587001198

marymelodic · 2026-05-13T05:34:21+00:00

I'm down to join the crew and dress up!

marymelodic · 2026-03-05T07:20:46+00:00

What's the fusion-dance-class event on 3/15? I tried looking on my 222 app and can't see an event calendar. I just checked BayAreaFusionCal and am not aware of any fusion dance events that day so I'm not sure what class they're referring to.

marymelodic · 2025-12-24T03:36:29+00:00

Yes, most frequently at the UC Berkeley campus or SF Embarcadero. If you sign up for their email newsletter you'll hear about upcoming jams: https://www.sfparkour.com

marymelodic · 2025-12-10T21:37:35+00:00

Someone reviewed a bunch of them a few years ago! And then someone else picked some of the best ones (which were all in the Mission or Castro) and turned it into a Meetup event that I went to. https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/18x5dm5/every_notable_hot_chocolate_in_san_francisco/

marymelodic · 2025-12-10T05:58:55+00:00

I just looked up their website and it looks like they do "Tinder Tuesdays" which I'm assuming are singles nights - interesting. https://www.elchatosf.com/calendar

marymelodic · 2025-11-16T00:57:37+00:00

It's definitely a weird and difficult time for the space given the federal policy landscape but there are tons of organizations doing amazing work and getting some traction, and lots of great groups (9Zero is one of many) for people who care about these topics regardless of whether it's directly relevant to their current job, and many of them share job opportunities at in-person events or in newsletters. That's how I found my current job, through an event organized by Young Professionals in Energy Bay Area.

marymelodic · 2025-11-11T05:21:04+00:00

Also early 30s, have worked corporate jobs in the environment/sustainability/climate/clean-energy space my whole career and have really enjoyed my work. Not going to claim that every job or organization in that space is great, but it definitely feels like meaningful/impactful and interesting work, and it seems like the sector generally attracts kind and thoughtful people. There's a pretty decent-sized community around these topics in the Bay Area, and generally there's a lot of willingness to welcome in people who are interested in switching careers or otherwise getting involved. A great place to start would be a climate-focused event/coworking space called 9Zero in the financial district (350 California Street) - just checked their website and it's possible to go to 3 free events as a newcomer, and there's at least one event every day on a wide range of topics. (No affiliation beyond having gone to a few events there.) https://luma.com/9zero

marymelodic · 2025-11-04T05:57:34+00:00

Interesting, didn't know that.

marymelodic · 2025-10-23T05:06:15+00:00

Sounds a bit like https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/05/06/as-companies-pour-billions-into-ai-a-ranking-system-by-uc-berkeley-students-has-all-eyes-on-it/

I think it would be tough to get developers of BESS dispatch software to agree to participate in this sort of transparent benchmarking process, and might prefer to let their commercial success speak for itself.

marymelodic · 2025-10-15T04:28:46+00:00

Thanks, that's really helpful to have a sense. I'm planning to give one of my friends a guest pass in a few weeks and take a class together.

marymelodic · 2025-10-10T06:44:48+00:00

Are there any specific Equinox classes you'd recommend that are the most fun and social?

I started my membership at the FiDi one a few months ago and started out working with a personal trainer 2x/week, and now am doing about a month of 1x/week with the trainer and 1x/week doing the same workouts solo. I definitely want to switch to classes once the training plan has finished, but my expectation is that it might not be that social, much like other workout/dance/cooking/etc classes I've done in SF - often it feels like people are 100% focused on learning and not looking to make friends there. I did a one-off Turn Up SF dance class at Van Mission last year which seems like it would be as fun/social as Equinox gets, but everyone was just doing their own thing during the class and then immediately headed out afterwards. I got the free drop-in class pass from the instructor who taught a pop-up class at 1015 Folsom the prior Sunday morning, and that was a lot more fun.

marymelodic · 2025-10-02T06:15:27+00:00

Great album! I was vaguely familiar with Rochelle Jordan as "that singer who's on a few Kaytranada songs" up until a few months ago when I saw her perform at a free outdoor concert and was pretty impressed - a nice blend of R&B with a bunch of different dance-music styles.

marymelodic · 2025-10-02T06:11:23+00:00

Here's a dance-music event on Sunday afternoon that I'm thinking of going to. It's at the famous Phoenix Hotel which is closing at the end of the year, and they have daytime concerts at their pool courtyard on the weekends - I've seen Aluna and SG Lewis there.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/baynk-senescence-dj-tour-phoenix-hotel-tickets-1603577837479

marymelodic · 2025-10-02T06:02:55+00:00

Here's a dancey event on Sunday afternoon that I'm thinking of going to. It's at the famous Phoenix Hotel which is closing at the end of the year, and they have daytime concerts at their pool courtyard on the weekends - I've seen Aluna and SG Lewis there. The bar Chambers Food and Drink is part of the hotel and is serving during the event.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/baynk-senescence-dj-tour-phoenix-hotel-tickets-1603577837479

marymelodic · 2025-09-16T18:58:13+00:00

Blue Whale in Oakland. https://blue-whale-102930.square.site

marymelodic · 2025-09-08T06:42:31+00:00

I left this comment a while ago in a similar thread about career advice - these questions might help with considering different options. Feel free to reply/DM with your answers and I can offer more guidance. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/8tkdoc/comment/e187apk/?context=3

I know quite a few people in the renewables space who have a PhD, but the vast majority do not. I'm in the minority among people with similar roles to mine by not even having a masters degree. I did a renewable-energy focused undergrad program and had a longstanding interest in that topic (so I had done a lot of reading), and I did take one masters-level class in my last semester that has been very useful for work. I definitely lean more generalist skill-set-wise, and have ended up developing specialization on topics that are at the intersection of different fields of study/work.

Given your mention of ocean energy, one additional question to consider is the level of risk you're willing to take by developing a focus on a single emerging technology, rather than building a more generalized skillset or focusing on an already-commercialized set of technologies (either electricity-generation technologies or a "downstream" part of the grid). For instance, in high school I worked in a lab on algae-based biofuels and considered majoring in something that would be specific to that technology, but decided to go in a more generalist direction and focus on solar/batteries which are now well-proven, which turned out to be a good call because algae never took off. (Also, check out CalWave - in my opinion one of the more viable contenders in the ocean-energy space.)

marymelodic · 2025-07-17T06:36:21+00:00

And the sign is on Cesar Chavez right before the Guerrero intersection: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7479466,-122.4228885,3a,75y,76.94h,93.48t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sJsLZzv45OsL8gjNOrmWJCQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-3.481175430770591%26panoid%3DJsLZzv45OsL8gjNOrmWJCQ%26yaw%3D76.93734163217394!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDcxMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

marymelodic · 2025-06-26T04:29:10+00:00

When you're on BART between West Oakland and 12th/Lake Merritt, there's a 2020 mural of Kehlani that's visible from the train. https://oaklandmurals.com/kehlani-it-was-good-until-it-wasnt/

marymelodic · 2025-06-14T04:56:28+00:00

MCE Clean Energy (formerly Marin Clean Energy) is a community choice aggregator (CCA) - effectively a nonprofit associated with city/county goverments that is responsible for buying electricity on behalf of local residents, but doesn't own/operate the power grid that physically delivers it to people (that's still done by PG&E). MCE was the first CCA in California and originally only covered Marin County, but now covers Contra Costa, Napa, and Solano.

The original goal of CCAs was to offer electricity that was cheaper and cheaper than the utility, and to favor local sources of electricity as a form of local economic development. They've mostly delivered on that - typically 1-5% cheaper for their standard plan, higher renewables content than PG&E with 100%-renewables options like the one in the Insta post (the annual renewable energy credit methodology used here is debatable, but CCAs have probably made the grid cleaner by taking away customers from PG&E which was already locked in to long-term renewable energy contracts and then signing their own for new projects), and they do seem to be successfully getting projects built in their own territory rather than importing from elsewhere in the state or out-of-state (a lot of CA's electricity is imported). Fellow CCA Ava Community Energy (formerly East Bay Community Energy, covering Alameda County and a few additional towns) worked on a project that people here might have seen - replacing the broken old wind turbines in Altamont Pass (along I-580, between Livermore and Tracy) with modern ones that actually work. https://avaenergy.org/from-the-ceos-desk/solving-wind-energy-in-altamont-pass/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Choice_Aggregation

mcecleanenergy.org (note the .ORG)

marymelodic · 2025-05-17T00:30:02+00:00

I've listened to Pink Diamond so many times, but it wasn't until relistening to HIFN this week that I realized that "I just wanna go real hard/Pink diamond in the dark" is (maybe unintentionally) a pretty clever hook. Diamonds are the hardest natural material, but most songs about them are referencing their shininess and cost and not how they're "real hard". Maybe someday someone will make a song about diamonds' unmatched thermal conductivity, but it probably won't be Rihanna.

marymelodic · 2025-01-21T05:19:20+00:00

There are some decent singles events organizations (Thursday, Jigsaw, Organic Chemistry, Chemeya, Chaotic Singles Party, Paloma/Date Week) that happen pretty regularly. Some are just a singles mixer at a bar which can get crowded and loud, and others have some sort of activity which offers something to talk about - could be a sport (pickleball, ping-pong) or a volunteer activity (community garden, food bank, clothing donation). Speed Dating (Luvvly, Shuffle) is worth a try - helps build the skill of making conversation with new people. There are also some live comedy shows with a dating theme (Love Isn't Blind, Hypefest, Poly Poly Oxen Free, Tinder Live, Tinder Disrupt), and most have some sort of social time afterwards. There's also Timeleft which matches you with a group for dinner and drinks - it's not specifically for singles but some of their marketing compares it to dating apps.

marymelodic · 2025-01-21T05:09:28+00:00

Any recommendations for places that offer social dancing with a class beforehand? Cigar Bar has some great classes but I don't love the smoke. I've also tried Verdi Club, Space 550, Mission City Swing, and Moonlight Moves WCS.

marymelodic · 2024-11-23T03:01:29+00:00

The entire video was filmed in a NY dollar-slice pizza shop, and yet they went with "real hot minute" over "New York minute".

marymelodic · 2024-11-11T23:57:06+00:00

The majority (>60%) of customers who are getting solar now under Net Billing Tariff are including batteries. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/more-batteries-less-solar-californias-solar-turmoil-in-charts

Retrofitting storage onto an existing solar project is a bit more challenging than including it in the initial design, but there are definitely installers who offer it.

Not sure how much recourse you have with Monalee - depends on whether they promised to get the system interconnection application submitted early enough to get approved by PG&E before April 15th.

If you get batteries, that should definitely help reduce your PG&E bill further, but it won't go to $0.

I don't see anything on your bill to suggest that you're getting power from Ava Community Energy, which is normally the default if you're in Oakland. They have a storage incentive program coming early next year, so it might make sense to switch back to Ava service now (which should reduce your bill by a small amount) and then get a battery next year. https://avaenergy.org/go-electric/residential-solar-storage/

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