THE FRESNAN

Weeee! It's Code Monkey Day In Fresno!

The Silicon Valley is not the only place that has nerds smartass people that can write code. Fresno has them too. If one of these local code monkeys are your friend, you might have noticed them being a bit stressed out the past week. That's because they've probably been writing code like crazy for the 59 Days of Code event.

This competition/showcase feels like one of those stop-Fresno-brain-drain kinda things. We like that. Check it out today at Clovis Veterans Memorial District Auditorium. It's free but they would like you to let them know you're coming.

More info:
Facebook page.
Website.
Mike Oz Beehive post.
A look at the projects.

The event monkeys explain this in there own words after the break...

Bloggiest Moment OTW: Austin Still Cooler Than Fresno... for now

Maps are cool. This one is too. Except it's not:

It's not cool because it shows Fresnans leaving Fresno - that's what all the bad red lines are. We say to those leaving: Fuck em. (whoops, did we write that out loud?). Go have fun in your new city, just don't be mad if we block you on Facebook now.

This map came via the Beehive's Joan Obra as this week she stepped outside her normal food blogging role and brought us this map from Forbes and came with the question "Are you leaving Fresno?" And yeah we get it, times are tough here, maybe more so than other cities and you want to see if some other city will treat you better. Go for it.

But remember this, while we may not be at a Austin or Portland level right now, we will be. Not next year, but in the coming ones. One day we will have lines pointing TO Fresno, not away. Maybe even a few from *gasp* Portland. This much we know.

Thank You Fresno Blogsphere, Thank You

So we told ya about the Central Valley brain drain site.  Then the FresnoBeehive told us about this.  Fresno native Dara Purvis wrote a column [some time ago] about her drained Fresno brain.

The only way it could have been better?  If Portland was involved.  I couldn't help join in on the  revived comment war (hopefully, soon to be blog war).  Here was my take on all of the Fresno bashing:

Gotta love the Fresno haters as they chuck rocks at Fresno from 1992.

Thank you for leaving Fresno and please stay away.  It has become a better place because of your absence.  The worst thing about Fresno was all the FresNoers that used to be here. 

Every weekend in Fresno is filled with endless cool things to do and great people to do them with.  All this with amazing homes (with pools) for 250,000, Yosemite in our backyard and the beach a brief morning drive away.

I love it here, especially since you lameasses have left.