I'd love to take you up on this. Would it be fun to make it into a Hacker News dinner party? I think so. In fact, I'd love to host a HN dinner party no matter what. Is anyone else interested?
My partner and I live in Mill Valley (just over the GGB). She's in tech also. I eat meat. She doesn't. I think we can support twenty or so folks.
Our kitchen is well stocked, we're the local drop off for a CSA so we have fresh veggies, we both can help, etc. If we do meat, I'd like to do it in a smoker outside.
I'm tony@tonystubblebine.com