Techshop Mixer
22-Aug-08
Thought some of you would be interested in this:
If you couldn’t make it to Burning Man http://www.burningman.com this year,
there’s still a way for you to hang out with creative, smart and fun people
right here in the Bay Area.The *TechShop Member Mixer
http://www.techshop.ws/events.html?&action=detail&id=30 will be happening
next Friday evening, August 29 starting at 7 PM. We’d love it if you could come
by, and bring your projects with you.The TechShop Member Mixer is a great way for you to meet and network with other
interesting TechShop members who work on their projects at TechShop on other
days and times than you, and for you to see the projects they are working on.
The event also gives you the chance to show off your projects, whether they are
in progress or complete.Please feel free bring your family, kids, friends, co-workers, and anyone else
that you think would be interested in meeting TechShop members and seeing the
amazing things being built at TechShop.Here is the information:
*TechShop Member Mixer
http://www.techshop.ws/events.html?&action=detail&id=30
120 Independence Dr.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(800) 640-1975Friday, August 29, 2008
7:00 PM Until ???
Everyone Is Welcome — Membership is Not Required!Thank you, Christopher. I look forward to seeing you here next Friday!
–
Jim Newton
Founder and Managing Director
TechShop
www.techshop.ws
A Minute a Day Makes Good Feelings Grow
22-Aug-08
A Minute a Day Makes Good Feelings Grow
Fine, I thought. I’ve used one-minute timings with children for reading and math for nine years now. If it works for them, I’m willing to try anything no matter how crazy it sounds. I’ve been to the Lands of Crazy and Depression and, while it’s fuel for writing, I didn’t like it in either place. What’s the worst that could happen? It wouldn’t work. But it was worth a try for two weeks. Each morning for the next two weeks I wrote for one minute as many self-positives as I could, anything I could think, remember, had been previously told, whether or not I felt it during that minute.
Bingo! For the next two weeks, my good feelings ranged from seven a day to forty and the bad feelings dropped from a high of seven on the first day to a low of zero – staying between zero and two. The negative thoughts went from 75 the first day to three! Happy birthday, Robert! I shall stop looking for reasons to argue, stop trying to sabotage my marriage.
Ta-dah!
21-Aug-08
Via captain_brad
Feist – 1,2,3,4
20-Aug-08
Burning Man update
19-Aug-08
The current plan is to leave on Sunday (8/24) at 1:00 p.m, and return on Monday (9/1), with a possible stayover in Reno.
I’ll be camping with the pseudofeds of the playagon at 9:30 and Esplanade.
If you’d like to meet up, let me know where you will be camping! I’d love to meet up with you I’m there.
capitalism-yeah invited me to go with her and her friend Gretchen last night to Redwood City Swing. It was blast!
We took the beginner drop-in class, which they offer every Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. Both instructors were very competent, helpful and on the ball. Afterwards, Gretchen and capitalism-yeah took turns dancing with me. After they left, two women asked me to dance. There were probably 60 – 80 people there overall. They also served snacks (strawberries, chips, cookies), and had several coolers of water set up.
Downsides: the music is loud (though there are areas where it is much quieter, and you can talk), and it can get stifling hot (no a/c).
Thanks capitalism-yeah!
Burning Man bike?
12-Aug-08
So I’m going to Burning Man in two weeks. Anyone have a bike they’d be willing to sell for cheap?
The Seasteading Institute has announced the first annual seasteading conference. It will be held October 10th, 2008 at the Embassy Suites in Burlingame, CA. The cost is $195.00, which includes food, but not a hotel room.
This will be a working conference. As the wiki states:
This is not a “sit around and listen to a few presenters” sort of conference. Instead, we’re going to have a bunch of small workshops where groups brainstorm about solutions to some of the challenges we face, research those solutions, and come up w/ recommendations. If there is a particular area that you’d like to lead a workshop / session on, please note it. Also feel free to add workshop topics.
In my opinion, seasteading represents the single best strategy for increasing human freedom in the near term future. So if you’d like to help make it happen, come join us! And please spread the word to any group that you think would be interested.