From chris at nart.org Thu Mar 1 13:18:56 2007 From: chris at nart.org (Christopher Prosser) Date: Thu Mar 1 13:23:04 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] steampunk keyboard Message-ID: <60ca9c740703011018q4378c7e5sb75624341df97eb3@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Prosser Date: Feb 28, 2007 5:03 PM Subject: FW: kbd To: chris@nart.org ------------------------------ *From:* jwz *Posted At:* Saturday, February 24, 2007 4:46 PM *Posted To:* jwz *Conversation:* kbd *Subject:* kbd http://jwz.livejournal.com/741190.html | Comments Steampunk Keyboard Mod Related... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20070301/49fab5a9/attachment.html From ssafarik at speakeasy.net Fri Mar 2 23:49:55 2007 From: ssafarik at speakeasy.net (Steve Safarik) Date: Fri Mar 2 23:50:13 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Machine Shop Garage Sale Message-ID: <000a01c75d4f$635346b0$c61e5f80@ee.washington.edu> I friend of mine, Ryan, has to move his rather large machine shop soon, so he's having a "garage" sale this weekend (the 3rd & 4th). I don't know exactly what he's selling, but I might expect to see some various shop stuff, maybe a pallet of misc power supplies, metal, and who knows what else. Let the lucky finder find something. The directions to get there are a little tricky, and excuse me for not remembering the exact street number, but from Seattle... - Take I-5 south, - Michigan/Corson exit, - Go straight at the end of the ramp, staying on Corson, - Left on Marginal Way, - Right on 16th Ave S., - Right on Cloverdale, - Right on 8th Ave. S., - Left on Monroe, - Go one and one-half blocks, and it's on the left. Between 5th & 7th, about where 6th would be if there were a 6th. Steve. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The directions to get there are a little tricky, and excuse me for not remembering the exact street number, but from Seattle... - Take I-5 south, - Michigan/Corson exit, - Go straight at the end of the ramp, staying on Corson, - Left on Marginal Way, - Right on 16th Ave S., - Right on Cloverdale, - Right on 8th Ave. S., - Left on Monroe, - Go one and one-half blocks, and it's on the left. Between 5th & 7th, about where 6th would be if there were a 6th. Steve. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20070302/da75a6fb/attachment.html From toby at paddfam.com Sat Mar 3 01:55:52 2007 From: toby at paddfam.com (Toby Paddock) Date: Sat Mar 3 01:56:06 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] March 7 DORKBOT: Retro-Dork Message-ID: <200703030655.l236tsGO005222@omr5.networksolutionsemail.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). ********************************************************************** From labworks at remix-lab.com Sun Mar 4 19:57:03 2007 From: labworks at remix-lab.com (Ryan Schoelerman) Date: Sun Mar 4 19:57:36 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Free Geodesic structure Message-ID: <19ABEA49-020F-4E49-B539-D24F896234BD@remix-lab.com> Hi, I used to do a lot of large scale multi-media installations. I have the material to build a 12foot diameter (3/4 full) geodesic dome. I also have the white material you see on the structure - it takes video projection really well. This is free to anyone interested. Please email me if you want it. thanks Ryan -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please email me if you want it. > thanks > > Ryan > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > > > From labworks at remix-lab.com Mon Mar 5 20:03:32 2007 From: labworks at remix-lab.com (Ryan Schoelerman) Date: Tue Mar 6 00:38:21 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] geodesic claimed - but have rigging available Message-ID: <64AB57D9-6B5A-401E-85C3-6B30BA2096AE@remix-lab.com> Hi all, I've already got the first two offers to claim the geodesic, so I'm sure it will be gone. thanks Ryan From chris at nart.org Tue Mar 6 17:42:25 2007 From: chris at nart.org (Christopher Prosser) Date: Tue Mar 6 17:42:32 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Fwd: upgrade-seattle In-Reply-To: <9FE987BA-C164-4CB9-8C55-F6282F177E87@kildall.com> References: <9FE987BA-C164-4CB9-8C55-F6282F177E87@kildall.com> Message-ID: <60ca9c740703061442u2c62fd26rce9a6ba6b9093dfb@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Scott Kildall Date: Mar 6, 2007 10:05 AM Subject: upgrade-seattle To: Chris Prosser Chris, You might be interested in this -- the Upgrade is an art+technology series in different cities. Operates on a more academic vector than dorkbots. http://www.911media.org/upgrade/ Looking forward to your visit, Scott From toby at paddfam.com Wed Mar 7 11:17:38 2007 From: toby at paddfam.com (Toby Paddock) Date: Wed Mar 7 11:17:47 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Reminder: Retro-Dork tonight at 911 Media Arts Message-ID: <200703071617.l27GHho8010557@omr5.networksolutionsemail.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). ********************************************************************** From rich at spambutcher.com Thu Mar 8 17:44:21 2007 From: rich at spambutcher.com (rich@spambutcher.com) Date: Thu Mar 8 17:44:28 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Robot Combat This Saturday (Seattle Center) In-Reply-To: <45A9D3CB.9050909@spambutcher.com> References: <45A9D3CB.9050909@spambutcher.com> Message-ID: <45F091C5.6010804@spambutcher.com> Wanna watch killer robots fight? Location: Seattle Center, Center House Date: March 10th, 2007 (Saturday) Fight Time: 12pm - 5:00pm Admission: Free Weight Classes: 3lb, 12lb Rules and more event info at: http://www.westernalliedrobotics.com/ From spam at hell.org Sun Mar 11 18:43:55 2007 From: spam at hell.org (mike begley) Date: Sun Mar 11 18:45:55 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Free: a few boxes of assorted tech crap. Message-ID: <544B6ADB5C3EA047A39B50FCE8F885155673FD@bsod.bigwhitehouse.net> I'm going through my boxes of accumulated tech gear and discarding the "someday I'll use this" bits that I know I'll never get to. There's some interesting bits in there; a complete pager system (transmitter + a handful of pagers, and of course, no docs), some X10 home automation stuff, and other random crap. Interesting stuff I'm never going to get to. Make it gone. Thing is, ya gotta take it all. No picking & choosing. Let me know. I'm still going through it so the the pile WILL grow. It would be cool if it could go tonight. -mike From joeb at sounddsl.com Thu Mar 15 19:00:21 2007 From: joeb at sounddsl.com (Joe Benner) Date: Thu Mar 15 18:48:19 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Third Tuesday: Tacoma dorkbot #2 at Club SOTA Message-ID: <001b01c76755$b5da4450$6601a8c0@token> !!!! PLEASE FORWARD !!!! Third Tuesday: Tacoma dorkbot #2 at Club SOTA LOCATION: 1117 Broadway, Tacoma (be sure to look for the door at this address marked "Club SOTA") TIME: 7:00 PM DATE: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 ADMISSION: Free and open to all dorkbot "people doing strange things with electricity" The second Tacoma dorkbot meeting will be on Tuesday, March 20 at Tacoma School of the Arts' club SOTA The presenters for the evening are: William J. Beaty: Weird Science Salon Founder and mad professor emeritus William J. Beaty has been goading Seattle's science hobbyists into action - and leading them from the front - since 1984: that's twenty years of bangs and whimpers (http://amasci.com/wsci/). Bill will bring Captain Kangaroo's magic drawing board (overhead proj) and do various random stuff. He'll also bring his microwave oven, argon bottle, etc. In most peoples' hands a microwave is useful for warming yesterday's coffee, in Bill's hand it can produce molten lava, melt beer bottles, generate plasma balls, light lighbulbs, the list goes on... (http://amasci.com/weird/microexp.html tells you about the experiments, and http://amasci.com/me.html tells you about Bill) Joe Benner: Tacoma art and technology buff Joe Benner will talk about the Kinetic Wooden Fish on a Stick sculpture that he made for the Tacoma Siteworks Dance Festival. There will also be an open dork after the presentations where anyone can take the floor for about 10 minutes to show us what you're working on, make announcements, look for collaborators, etc. (Laura will make some sparks fly with her father's Marx generator!) --- Special thanks to SOTA for making Club SOTA available to dorkbot --- For more information please visit http://dorkbot.org and http://dorkbot.org/dorkbottac We look forward to seeing you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20070315/3674e8f8/attachment-0001.html From beaty at chem.washington.edu Mon Mar 19 13:25:33 2007 From: beaty at chem.washington.edu (Bill Beaty) Date: Mon Mar 19 13:27:17 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Fools' Rummage Sale, Fremont Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20070319102330.0205d870@gibbs.chem.washington.edu> >Organization: Fremont Arts Council >To: fremontartscouncil , > fac-announce@yahoogroups.com >Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:06:36 -0700 >Subject: [fac-announce] March News: RUMMAGE & RETREAT! > > > >FOOLS RUMMAGE SALE: >Saturday, March 31st 9am-4p >Sunday, April 1st 10am-3p >*SAVE THE DATE!* > > > >We need you! >Price & Sort: Wed, Thurs, Fri March 28-30th 7-10p. > >Rummage Roustabouts! >Help during the Rummage Sale Sat & Sun. >Email me which days and times you'd like to help. >(roustabout = Circus laborer) > >We need GOOD STUFF to sell! >Please tell your friends and neighbors. > >Drop Offs at FAC Powerhouse, 3940 Fremont Ave N: >Sat, Mar 17 12-5p >Mon, Mar 19 7-9 >Tues, Mar 18 7-9p >Wed, Mar 19 7-9p >Sat, Mar 24 12-5p >Sun, Mar 25 12-5p >Wed, Mar 28 7-9p >Thurs, Mar 29 7-9p >Fri, Mar 30 7-9; > ((((((((((((((((((((((( ( ( (o) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/ Research Engineer UW Chem Dept, Bagley Hall RM74 beaty@chem.washington.edu Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700 ph:206-543-6195 fax:206-685-8665 From beaty at chem.washington.edu Mon Mar 19 13:28:07 2007 From: beaty at chem.washington.edu (Bill Beaty) Date: Mon Mar 19 13:28:48 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Fwd: UW Surplus Public Store - Tuesday, March 20, 2007: Noon-6PM Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20070319102622.0205b900@gibbs.chem.washington.edu> >Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:45:18 >Subject: UW Surplus Public Store - Tuesday, March 20, 2007: Noon-6PM > >Dear Surplus Buyers: > >UW Surplus Sales Announcement for March 20th Public Store. > >Public Store: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 from Noon to 6:00pm >Public Store pictures can be found at: >http://www.washington.edu/admin/surplus/inventory.html > >Special Furniture will be available at the March 20th Public Store >Special Furniture pictures can be found at: >http://www.washington.edu/admin/surplus/exefurn.html > >Because our inventory changes on a daily basis, please call 206-685-1573 for availability and pricing. > >**Please note that Washington State sales tax will be applied to all store invoices. A completed resale certificate or tax exemption >certificate is required prior to purchase for all buyers who wish to qualify for tax exemption.** > >Typical store items available include (but are not limited to): >Wood & Metal Desks, Computer Monitors, >Wood & Metal Tables, Printers, >File Cabinets, Televisions, Computers, >Wood & Metal Bookcases, Chairs, Office Supplies > >Payment methods include Cash, Money Order, Cashiers Check, & >Visa/Mastercard. Items are sold on a first-come, first-serve basis and >always 'as-is, where-is'. > >A line forms prior to opening at Noon, so arrive early! > >Parking Enforcement will be monitoring the W34 lot, please adhere to the >following parking information: > >**Parking Information** >Free (2 hour parking) can be found west of 1007 NE Boat Street. >Pay parking is available on NE Boat Street. >Pay parking is available in the lot located on the SW corner of NE Pacific >Street and NE Boat Street. > >**The University of Washington does NOT provide free parking to customers >visiting the Surplus Property warehouse. Please DO NOT park in parking >lot W-34 or any other UW parking lot unless you have purchased a UW >parking permit. Parking in the garage is limited to LOADING ONLY in the >designated load zones and for the posted time limit ONLY. >Violators will be ticketed. ** > >Hope to see you on Tuesday! >----------------------------- >University of Washington >Surplus Property Staff >Property & Transport Services >PH: 206-685-1573 >FX: 206-616-5280 >surplus@u.washington.edu >http://www.uwsurplus.com >----------------------------- ((((((((((((((((((((((( ( ( (o) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/ Research Engineer UW Chem Dept, Bagley Hall RM74 beaty@chem.washington.edu Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700 ph:206-543-6195 fax:206-685-8665 From joeb at sounddsl.com Tue Mar 20 15:43:43 2007 From: joeb at sounddsl.com (Joe Benner) Date: Tue Mar 20 15:01:12 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Reminder: Third Tuesday: Tacoma dorkbot #2 at Club SOTA Message-ID: <002c01c76b28$11d62820$6601a8c0@token> !!!! PLEASE FORWARD !!!! Third Tuesday: Tacoma dorkbot #2 at Club SOTA (see directions below) LOCATION: 1117 Broadway, Tacoma (be sure to look for the door at this address marked "Club SOTA") TIME: 7:00 PM DATE: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 ADMISSION: Free and open to all dorkbot "people doing strange things with electricity" The second Tacoma dorkbot meeting will be on Tuesday, March 20 at Tacoma School of the Arts' club SOTA The presenters for the evening are: William J. Beaty: Weird Science Salon Founder and mad professor emeritus William J. Beaty has been goading Seattle's science hobbyists into action - and leading them from the front - since 1984: that's twenty years of bangs and whimpers (http://amasci.com/wsci/). Bill will bring Captain Kangaroo's magic drawing board (overhead proj) and do various random stuff. He'll also bring his microwave oven, argon bottle, etc. In most peoples' hands a microwave is useful for warming yesterday's coffee, in Bill's hand it can produce molten lava, melt beer bottles, generate plasma balls, light lighbulbs, the list goes on... (http://amasci.com/weird/microexp.html tells you about the experiments, and http://amasci.com/me.html tells you about Bill) Joe Benner: Tacoma art and technology buff Joe Benner will talk about the Kinetic Wooden Fish on a Stick sculpture that he made for the Tacoma Siteworks Dance Festival. There will also be an open dork after the presentations where anyone can take the floor for about 10 minutes to show us what you're working on, make announcements, look for collaborators, etc. (Laura will make some sparks fly with her father's Marx generator!) --- Special thanks to SOTA for making Club SOTA available to dorkbot --- For more information please visit http://dorkbot.org and http://dorkbot.org/dorkbottac We look forward to seeing you there! ***** Directions to Club SOTA: ***** >From I-5 take the I-705 N exit On 705 follow the signs to City Center and then to A Street The A Street exit dumps you right onto A Street. Follow A Street for about 2 blocks then turn left onto 11th Take 11th past Pacific and Commerce to Broadway Turn left onto Broadway (you'll go around a little waterfall/fountain) Club SOTA is on the left at 1117 Broadway -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20070320/cbc97123/attachment-0001.html From trochee at gmail.com Fri Mar 23 13:00:50 2007 From: trochee at gmail.com (trochee) Date: Fri Mar 23 13:02:38 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] April Dorkbot: Lightning talks, starring you Message-ID: 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!) From cfharr at erols.com Wed Mar 28 15:46:43 2007 From: cfharr at erols.com (Chuck Harrison) Date: Wed Mar 28 14:57:11 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] [Fwd: [Seattle-seminars] NEW SEMINAR - Intel Research Seminar Announcement] Message-ID: <460AC623.200C7C96@erols.com> FYI -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Seminar Annoucements from Intel Research Seattle Subject: [Seattle-seminars] NEW SEMINAR - Intel Research Seminar Announcement Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:34:36 -0800 Size: 4792 Url: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20070328/e4e04b99/attachment.mht From trochee at gmail.com Wed Mar 28 18:37:05 2007 From: trochee at gmail.com (Jeremy K) Date: Wed Mar 28 18:52:16 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] call for clocks, redux Message-ID: We've had a couple of suggestions for ways to use a digital projector to get the giant clock effect for Lightning Dork next week. We may go with that, but I just thought I'd throw out another call: does anybody know of a way to get (e.g.) basketball time-keeping clocks, or (per Toby's suggestion) hydroplane racing clocks, or something similarly oversized and slightly goofy? I'll throw in a (token) rental payment, if somebody on this list might now where to find one, just for the thrill of having a big electric device on the stage with the speaker. Any leads? -jeremy From trochee at gmail.com Thu Mar 29 16:16:49 2007 From: trochee at gmail.com (Jeremy K) Date: Thu Mar 29 16:17:11 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Lightning Dork: April 4, 7:30, 911 Media Arts Message-ID: 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!