Engadget Reader Meetup in Boston Tonight!
By Peter Rojas 
posted September 28th 2006 10:37AM
posted September 28th 2006 10:37AM
Tonight's the night, Boston! We're having an Engadget Reader Meetup this evening, and if you're anywhere in the area you should come. We'll have product demos, awesome prizes from Sonos, Slim Devices, Sling Media, Nintendo, Samsung, LG, Motorola, PowerSquid, and HP, free Engadget t-shirts for the first 100 people who show up, and a Q&A with the editors of Engadget.Details:
Thursday, September 28th
7pm - 9:30pm
Jillian's
145 Ipswich Street
Boston, MA 02215
And yes, the event is all-ages!
Click on for directions and a map.
FROM THE NORTH
Take 93 South towards Boston
Exit at Storrow Drive, Follow Storrow Drive until the Fenway Exit
Stay left and take this exit
Once on ramp get into the right lane
You will see signs for Boylston Outbound, bear right at the light
Go through another set of lights you will see a Shell Station
Make a right onto Ipswich Street
Stay to the right and you will see Jillian's on the left
FROM THE SOUTH
Take 93 North towards Boston to Storrow Drive and Exit at Fenway
Follow the directions above
FROM THE WEST
Take the Mass. Pike East until the Allston / Cambridge Exit
Go through toll booth and stay right to exit
The Double Tree Hotel will be on your right
Make this right onto Storrow Drive
Take the Fenway Exit off Storrow Drive then get into the right lane
You will see signs for Boylston Outbound, bear right at this light
Go through another set of lights
At the next set of lights you will see a Shell Station
Make a right onto Ipswich Street
Stay to the right and you will see Jillian's on the left
MBTA
Take the Green line to Kenmore Square
Bear left onto Brookline Avenue
Take the second left onto Lansdowne Street
At the end of the street make a left onto Ipswich Street
You will see our entrance on the left hand side
Come to Tampa FL pleazzzeeeee!
So no Buffalo, NY?! WTF?! Snobs. :) Maybe Toronto? Road trip.
When will you be having a Meetup in New York City.
Who wants to lose to me in some Tetris for the DS? BRING IT ON!
you're on Emo! Find me on Pico chat.
hey, i was playing u in mk in line, remember?
if u wanna play on wifi, email me and we'll change fc's.
Hope you guys have a good time. I checked out Jillian's yesterday while I was in Boston. Shame that it was one day too early :( It's a pretty sweet place. I was going to leave you guys a little present but the crap shops wanted $35 for a 128mb USB drive. Shenanigans!
Chicago? Anybody? Chicago?
Cool, I'll try to be there!
you should do an rsvp for the event!
then we could no what to expect for the time we need to showup for a tshirt!
It figures - I have to fix my 80 year old uncles PC tonight. Maybe I can still make it to Jillians... I could always drug him.
Nobody go, more freebies for me ;-)
I am tempted to go. What do people do at these things?
Need to come to Seattle!
I can't believe I won't be able to go. Please, try to have a good time without me.
I'll be there.
glad i live in boston! i'll be there.
If there's one in Toronto, have it at Pacific Mall so you can go buy some GSM phones we see here all the time :P
Why, oh God, why did I move to Rochester NY from Boston????......sniff, sniff.....I mean a gadget lovers get-together on Lansdown St??? Loads of gadgets and top-totty in one central geographical area????? I don't think I can stand the pain of not being able to go!!!! Please come to Upstate NY some day soon.....PLLLLEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSEEEEE.......
So, where in Jillian's is this at?
Come to Detroit and get some street cred.
I wish I could go I live in NH, but haven't gotten my drivers liscense yet.
Come on down to Atlanta, you'll love the south
San Diego would be a nice venue too. Give us a try someday.
Can we show up early? I'm sitting in the Westin Hotel Starbucks right now...
Way too short notice, I wish I had known earlier and I would have gone :(
Your intrepid reporter and his OQO is standing outside the event. It's now 7:03. According to the bouncer, I'm number 140--so no free t-shirt :-(. Still waiting to see the Engadget editors. A guy from Sonos just went in...
I was JUST there! I was the 17 year old asian kid in a blue collar shirt playing on a white ds lite. My friend WON a Squeezebox, how crazy is that?
Awesome meet-up engadget and great prizes. But, where was the free food and drinks? And what about product demos from NINTENDO?
Anyway, almost everyone was playing their ds, anyone who played Mario kart with me there, if you wanna play wifi, email me thedtrain89@verizon.net
My name is the ThaDTrain and I own.
Tonight's meetup was awesome! Thanks so much for hosting one here in Boston!
It is midnight, I am 1 hour from Jillian's and even have some credits to burn there and thinking "6 hours of notice!?!?! Come on!!!" I was so stoked for the event when it was first suggested too. :(
Yesterday's 10am post about the meetup was only a reminder. The first definite announcement about the Boston meetup was actually two weeks ago: http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/15/engadget-reader-meetup-in-boston-thursday-september-28th/
I was there!