From shellyhivemind at gmail.com Sat Mar 3 14:13:40 2007 From: shellyhivemind at gmail.com (shelly@hive-mind.com) Date: Thu Nov 29 17:38:59 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-announce] March 7 DORKBOT: Retro-Dork In-Reply-To: <200703030655.l236tsGO005222@omr5.networksolutionsemail.com> References: <200703030655.l236tsGO005222@omr5.networksolutionsemail.com> Message-ID: <37bd773c0703031113mca7bdcblcf93a5eebc1d1d04@mail.gmail.com> ************************PLEASE FORWARD FREELY********************* WHAT: March DORKBOT: Retro-Dork WHEN: Wednesday, Mar. 7, 2007, 7:30 PM (7:00 for a bit of socializing!) WHERE: 911 Media Arts Center, 402 9th Ave N, Seattle ADMISSION: Free, all ages and species, donation encouraged. ******************************** Greetings, Dorks! On Wednesday, March 7th at 7:30 PM at the 911 Media Arts Center, we will have two fabulous presentations about dorkish history and alternate dorkish history: Things that were and things that could have been. Mark you calendar! (but not your PDA, they haven't been invented yet) ******** Donald Martin Ph.D. will present COMPUTER HISTORY: A Personal Look at a Few Early Computers. Massive computing machines with sonic mercury delay line memory, vacuum tubes, punched paper tape, hundreds of words of memory, analog/digital hybrids, and on up to Large Scale Integration. Computing was not for the squeamish. ******** Phil Foglio, artist and co-creator of Girl Genius, will present the "gaslamp fantasy" Girl Genius. Girl Genius is an ongoing "gaslamp fantasy" story by Phil and Kaja Foglio. It started out in 2000 as a periodical comic book, which is collected into three (and counting) larger volumes. Girl Genius follows the career of Agatha Heterodyne --- a hapless student at Transylvania Polygnostic University who discovers that she has more going for her than she thought. Influences include Jules Verne and H. Rider Haggard. The genre is also called "steampunk." Expect big, clanking Victorian-style tech, old-fashioned clothes, Frankenstein monsters and airships. Lots and lots of airships. Is it magic? Is it science? A little of both, I suppose---it's Mad Science. Girl Genius has won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction 2007 (http://ryanestrada.com/wcca07/) and was on the SF Site's Editor's Choice list for 2006 ( http://www.sfsite.com/columns/best07.htm) **************** Doors will be open at 7:00 if you want to show up early and schmooze with your fellow dorks! If you would like to take the mic for a few moments at "open dork" after the presentations let me know. Dust off that retro gadget for show 'n tell! http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea will also have full information about the talks shortly. Please send any questions or comments to Shelly, your Dork Overlord, at shellyhivemind@gmail.com. Or specific to this retro meeting, you can contact Toby at toby@paddfam.com or Jeremy at trochee@gmail.com. Looking forward to seeing you all on the 7th! Special thanks to 911 Media Arts Center (http://www.911media.org) for providing a venue! ******************************** More about the presenters: Donald C Martin Ph.D. As a teenager, I attempted to build a small computer from salvaged pinball machine relays. This was one of my more instructive failures and the best five dollars that I ever spent. A pinball machine is probably a good metaphor for my career. My academic career had a fine sense of indecision. My initial majors were electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering. I then switched to physics and then to psychology. When financial problems forced me to drop out of college, I took a low level job with RCA Service Co. at Cape Canaveral in Missile Range Data reduction. This was my first exposure to a computer. I studied mathematics and was promoted to mathematician at RCA but I had not completed any degree. I went back to Florida State University. By the time I was forced to graduate I happened to be majoring in mathematics with a minor in physics (note 1). A chance question caused me to start graduate studies in statistics although I had never had a statistics course. I was soon working in the Academic Computing Center. My initial academic appointments were in Biomathematics and Engineering Research (note 2) at North Carolina State University. I promptly became entangled with more computers. Burnout from 60-hour weeks of research and teaching became a problem. We started breeding and showing (conformation and obedience) Old English Sheepdogs. We then moved to the University of Washington where my appointment was in Biostatistics with an Adjoint appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (note 3). One way or another, I kept getting involved with computers. At one time I was Director of Computing Activities for the UW Health Sciences. I also developed a successful specialized programming language. I have approximately 100 scientific publications. Unlike most statisticians, I have a great deal of experience in actually doing experiments. At one time I was teaching dog-training using operant conditioning. Perhaps a step up from the business statistics class I had taught at FSU. I retired from UW in 1996 and moved to part time in Health Services Research at the Veterans Administration Hospital. Much to my surprise I then became a surrealist photographer (note 4) and Dorkbotter. I had never previously heard of ether calling. (1) Remember: I dropped out of Physics. (2) Remember: I dropped out of Engineering. (3) Remember: I dropped out of Psychology. (4) Sorry but I never tried majoring in photography or art. ******** Phil Foglio, is an artist and co-creator of "Girl Genius" (GirlGeniusOnline.com) and other SF and fantasy comics. Other works (not so retro) include "Buck Godot" (http://zapgunforhire.com/) and the 1980s "What's New with Phil and Dixie" (http://www.studiofoglio.com/growf.html). ********************************************************************** ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-announce/attachments/20070303/503b7658/attachment.html From shellyhivemind at gmail.com Wed Mar 7 14:39:54 2007 From: shellyhivemind at gmail.com (shelly@hive-mind.com) Date: Thu Nov 29 17:39:00 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-announce] Reminder: Retro-Dork tonight at 911 Media Arts In-Reply-To: <200703071617.l27GHho8010557@omr5.networksolutionsemail.com> References: <200703071617.l27GHho8010557@omr5.networksolutionsemail.com> Message-ID: <37bd773c0703071139y2043cf0et984a92085c92f8f6@mail.gmail.com> ************************PLEASE FORWARD FREELY********************* WHAT: March DORKBOT: Retro-Dork WHEN: Wednesday, Mar. 7, 2007, 7:30 PM (7:00 for a bit of socializing!) WHERE: 911 Media Arts Center, 402 9th Ave N, Seattle ADMISSION: Free, all ages and species, donation encouraged. ******************************** Greetings, Dorks! On Wednesday, March 7th at 7:30 PM at the 911 Media Arts Center, we will have two fabulous presentations about dorkish history and alternate dorkish history: Things that were and things that could have been. Mark you calendar! (but not your PDA, they haven't been invented yet) ******** Donald Martin Ph.D. will present COMPUTER HISTORY: A Personal Look at a Few Early Computers. Massive computing machines with sonic mercury delay line memory, vacuum tubes, punched paper tape, hundreds of words of memory, analog/digital hybrids, and on up to Large Scale Integration. Computing was not for the squeamish. ******** Phil Foglio, artist and co-creator of Girl Genius, will present the "gaslamp fantasy" Girl Genius. Girl Genius is an ongoing "gaslamp fantasy" story by Phil and Kaja Foglio. It started out in 2000 as a periodical comic book, which is collected into three (and counting) larger volumes. Girl Genius follows the career of Agatha Heterodyne --- a hapless student at Transylvania Polygnostic University who discovers that she has more going for her than she thought. Influences include Jules Verne and H. Rider Haggard. The genre is also called "steampunk." Expect big, clanking Victorian-style tech, old-fashioned clothes, Frankenstein monsters and airships. Lots and lots of airships. Is it magic? Is it science? A little of both, I suppose---it's Mad Science. Girl Genius has won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction 2007 (http://ryanestrada.com/wcca07/) and was on the SF Site's Editor's Choice list for 2006 ( http://www.sfsite.com/columns/best07.htm ) **************** Doors will be open at 7:00 if you want to show up early and schmooze with your fellow dorks! If you would like to take the mic for a few moments at "open dork" after the presentations let me know. Dust off that retro gadget for show 'n tell! http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea will also have full information about the talks shortly. Please send any questions or comments to Shelly, your Dork Overlord, at shellyhivemind@gmail.com. Or specific to this retro meeting, you can contact Toby at toby@paddfam.com or Jeremy at trochee@gmail.com. Looking forward to seeing you all on the 7th! Special thanks to 911 Media Arts Center (http://www.911media.org) for providing a venue! ******************************** More about the presenters: Donald C Martin Ph.D. As a teenager, I attempted to build a small computer from salvaged pinball machine relays. This was one of my more instructive failures and the best five dollars that I ever spent. A pinball machine is probably a good metaphor for my career. My academic career had a fine sense of indecision. My initial majors were electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering. I then switched to physics and then to psychology. When financial problems forced me to drop out of college, I took a low level job with RCA Service Co. at Cape Canaveral in Missile Range Data reduction. This was my first exposure to a computer. I studied mathematics and was promoted to mathematician at RCA but I had not completed any degree. I went back to Florida State University. By the time I was forced to graduate I happened to be majoring in mathematics with a minor in physics (note 1). A chance question caused me to start graduate studies in statistics although I had never had a statistics course. I was soon working in the Academic Computing Center. My initial academic appointments were in Biomathematics and Engineering Research (note 2) at North Carolina State University. I promptly became entangled with more computers. Burnout from 60-hour weeks of research and teaching became a problem. We started breeding and showing (conformation and obedience) Old English Sheepdogs. We then moved to the University of Washington where my appointment was in Biostatistics with an Adjoint appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (note 3). One way or another, I kept getting involved with computers. At one time I was Director of Computing Activities for the UW Health Sciences. I also developed a successful specialized programming language. I have approximately 100 scientific publications. Unlike most statisticians, I have a great deal of experience in actually doing experiments. At one time I was teaching dog-training using operant conditioning. Perhaps a step up from the business statistics class I had taught at FSU. I retired from UW in 1996 and moved to part time in Health Services Research at the Veterans Administration Hospital. Much to my surprise I then became a surrealist photographer (note 4) and Dorkbotter. I had never previously heard of ether calling. (1) Remember: I dropped out of Physics. (2) Remember: I dropped out of Engineering. (3) Remember: I dropped out of Psychology. (4) Sorry but I never tried majoring in photography or art. ******** Phil Foglio, is an artist and co-creator of "Girl Genius" (GirlGeniusOnline.com) and other SF and fantasy comics. Other works (not so retro) include "Buck Godot" (http://zapgunforhire.com/) and the 1980s "What's New with Phil and Dixie" ( http://www.studiofoglio.com/growf.html). ********************************************************************** ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-announce/attachments/20070307/2072fa47/attachment.html From shellyhivemind at gmail.com Mon Mar 26 12:32:06 2007 From: shellyhivemind at gmail.com (shelly@hive-mind.com) Date: Thu Nov 29 17:39:00 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-announce] April Dorkbot: Lightning talks, starring you In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <37bd773c0703260932r60c9ed28mdda3099fd057e348@mail.gmail.com> Mark the date! Next Dorkbot, Weds April 4th, lightning talks. I believe we still have a spot or two open, if you are interested in presenting your geek art in a five minute format let Jeremy, who's organizing the next dorkbot, know. See below. We'll send out the final list of who's speaking shortly. Shelly dork overlord ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: trochee Date: Mar 23, 2007 10:00 AM Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] April Dorkbot: Lightning talks, starring you To: dorkbotsea-blabber@dorkbot.org Call for talks: April Dorkbot is Lightning Dork! Wednesday, April 4, 7:30pm Ten speakers. Two heats. Five minutes each. April's Dorkbot is all about short-takes. Five minute talks, from ten speakers. We'll keep the timers, and you (or your favorite artists) give the talks. Do you have a project underway? Do you have an idea that's too great to keep quiet, but too half-baked to make into a full Dorkbot presentation? Talk to me, Jeremy () or any other Seattle Dork Overlord THIS WEEK. A few projects already on deck -- you could be among these: Electric Fish Molecular Gastronomy War Cycling Desert Oracles Rethinking Bipedalism All we need is YOU, and your art+geek ideas. if you'd like to give a talk, I need * a one-sentence name of the talk * your name * a few sentences saying what your talk is about * a few sentences saying who you are (to help us introduce you) * an idea of the media you'll involve (digital slides, a close-up camera, etc) WE ALSO NEED: * A giant clock -- we'd really like a big countdown clock (digital display, or analog with a second hand), settable to 5:00 countdowns for each speaker and readable across the presentation space. (One can't usually expect to get this from a mailing list, but dorkbotsea-blabber is a pretty amazing group!) ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-announce/attachments/20070326/95d6521e/attachment.html From shellyhivemind at gmail.com Fri Mar 30 15:14:58 2007 From: shellyhivemind at gmail.com (shelly@hive-mind.com) Date: Thu Nov 29 17:39:00 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-announce] Lightning Dork: April 4, 7:30, 911 Media Arts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <37bd773c0703301214t41dde9d1sf46be359001a5986@mail.gmail.com> We've got a great lineup of speakers for Lightning Dork. Lightning Dork 7:30pm, Wednesday, April 4, 2007 911 Media Arts (http://911media.org/) We'll be remaining at 911 Media Arts, which looks like it is becoming our regular space (thanks 911!). Here's a few of the speakers who are on deck for "Lightning Dork": Shelly Farnham: Desert Oracles Bre Pettis: DIY Space Joseph Gray: Painting with Video on Sculptural Surfaces Toby Paddock: Current Events (what is this "Teleharmonium"?) Bill Beatty: Dangerous water effects We have more coming -- we're just pinning down the details. Stay tuned for more speaker announcements as we finalize our schedule! ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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