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| Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 | | 2:26 pm |
| | Thursday, March 29th, 2007 | | 10:13 pm |
GeekAustin / LJ Party Saturday April 7th
With _fool soon off to see America, and me rarely leaving
the piano bench, this is probably the last LJ party we'll be
hosting for a while.
As usual, the party will be on the garden patio of Truimph Cafe.
I'm getting ready to place the BEER ORDER. So, Let me know
what you would like to have on hand.
For the party, Triumph normally stocks: Fat Tire, Guinness,
Real Ale Full Moon Pale Rye, Ace Pear Cider, TsingTao, Corona,
Woodchuck, "33" Export, Shiner Bock, Budweiser. So, help me
decide what beers to add to that list for the party.
As usual, I will probably be drinking espresso.
Let us have your Recommendations, and hope to see you there!
-_fool / linearb
| | Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 | | 11:42 am |
| | Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 | | 7:52 am |
| | Thursday, March 8th, 2007 | | 9:23 am |
Dorkbot!
When I growing up in Detroit, there was this store called Allied Radio. It was about the twice the size of a Walgreen's store, and it was all electronics gear. They had aisles of resistors, capacitors, TTL (and later, CMOS) chips, vacuum tubes, Heathkit parts, soldering irons, oscilliscopes, and a bunch of other stuff for which I didn't yet know the name. On Saturdays, I would ride my bike there, with a fresh schematic from Popular Electronics magazine, and make whatever the thing of the month was. Sometimes I was successful, sometimes I wasn't. I remember blowing the fuse to the basement multiple times, blowing out perfectly working electronic devices, and even starting a small fire in a radio that my father gave me for Christmas. I sure did have a lot of fun. In the process, I learned about all sorts of nifty things like impedance, which came in handy when I was trying to tweak the reverb and preamp circuits on my guitar amp -- or when I lived in the Ambassador and was trying to figure out how to bridge my neighbor's circuit to get more amperage.
In the mid seventies,I bought a Yamaha mixing console. When it broke, I discovered that the whole mixer was on a single IC chip. Nothing to fix. You take it to the Yamaha repair shop, and the replace the chip. I began to notice that more and more of the objects I bought were built the same way. It breaks, you throw it away. The opportunities to take something apart, learn how it worked, fix it, or maybe just make it better were becoming less frequent.
When I first saw Make magazine, I knew something was afoot. If you can't open it, you don't own it. Yeah, that's exactly what I felt.
With the emergance of the first Dorkbot events, it's appears that this philosphy is becoming a movement. I couldn't be happier. For those of you in Austin, we have some of the biggest dorkbot events right here.
The next one is Saturday, March 10th. If you're downtown (and you should be), and need a break from Barcamp, you've got to check out the Dorkbot event in Brush Park.
Dorkbot
Saturday, March 10, 2007
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Brush Square Park
5th and Neches
Austin, Texas | | Monday, March 5th, 2007 | | 9:37 am |
| | Monday, February 12th, 2007 | | 10:35 am |
| | Monday, February 5th, 2007 | | 11:45 am |
| | Saturday, January 20th, 2007 | | 12:42 pm |
| | Thursday, January 11th, 2007 | | 9:50 am |
Dishola Launch Party this Saturday 13th, 7-9 p.m
WHAT: Dishola Launch Party
WHERE: THE RED HOUSE, 1917 Manor Road (behind El Gringo)( map)
WHEN: Saturday, January 13th, 7-9 p.m.
COVER: no cover!
Some of you may know Lindsey Simon as the code wizard
behind the SXSW Panel Picker. Lindsey has been busy!
This Saturday 13th, we will be hosting a Launch party
for Lindsey and Paula Disbrowe's new web venture -- Dishola.
Dishola is new user-driven website devoted to the best
dishes in Austin, and top gastronomic destinations around
the country. When obsessive hunger strikes, Dishola will
help find exactly what you crave. Dishola rocks.
Enjoy wine, beer, and appetizers for the first hour, with
a cash bar and bar menu afterward. And check this out -
Amy Cook, Dishola's first "Celebrity Disher," will perform
songs from her latest CD, "The Bunkhouse Recordings,"
from 8-9-ish. | | Friday, November 3rd, 2006 | | 9:21 am |
Lunchies - Today Noon at Buffet Palace
Come join the gaggle of geeks this Friday Noon at Buffet Palace
on Anderson Ln for Lunchies. Buffet Palace does not offer separate
checks, so if you want to join us, bring a ten dollar bill
-- and we'll make change.
RSVPs are not necessary, but welcome.
Hope you can join us.
Event: Lunchies
Time: Friday, Nov 3rd, noon
Location: Buffet Palace (1012 W.Anderson Ln) map
Cost: $10 | | Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 | | 9:37 am |
| | Saturday, October 14th, 2006 | | 1:08 pm |
| | Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 | | 9:40 am |
Your Beer order for this Saturday's LJ Party?
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Ok, I'm getting ready to place the BEER ORDER for the
LJ Party
that _fool and I will be co-hosting this Saturday at
Truimph Cafe.
Let me know what you would like to have on hand. Now don't be asking for
anything like Delirium Nocturne
because I'm not going to order it. The beers which Triumph
normally stocks are: TsingTao, Corona, "33" Export, Shiner Bock, Budweiser.
So, help me decide what beers to add to that list for the party.
As usual, I will probably be drinking espresso.
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Let us have your Recommendations!
-_fool / linearb
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| | Monday, October 2nd, 2006 | | 7:34 am |
Next LJ Party, This Saturday, Oct 7th @ Triumph Cafe
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The Spring GeekAustin Party at Truimph Cafe was so much fun that _fool and I had a second party. Now that I have recovered from Barcamp Texas, it's time to do it again.
No matter the heat, there's always a nice breeze on Truimph's back patio. Once again will have a bartender out on the back patio, so you won't even have to go inside for drinks. If you get hungry, Truimph makes great inexpensive sandwiches and Pho.
Event: Fall(sic) Live Journal Party / Happy Hour thing
Date/Time: Saturday, October 7th, 7:30ish to 11ish to...
Location: Truimph Cafe (map)
Cost: Free
This will be our last LJ party of the year. Hope you can make it!
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| | Friday, August 25th, 2006 | | 10:39 am |
BarCampTexas updated schedule and venues!
BarCampTexas will be held in conjunction with BarCampEarth, Saturday August 26th to Sunday 27th
Friday Evening (August 25th) Pre-Event Mixer: 8:00PM til ...
Location: Epoch Coffee (map)
Austin's newest and only independent 24hr coffeehouse is located just minutes north of downtown, in the North Loop neighborhood. Courtesy of GeekAustin, we will be pouring Austin's own Live Oak Hefeweizen.
Saturday (August 26th)BarCampTexas: 12 noon - 10PM
Location: Elysium (map)
Following the departure of Thistle Cafe, Elysium has graciously offered to host BarCampTexas. Elysium is a 4 time winner of the Chronicle's Best of Austin award for best dance club.
Sunday(August 27th) 11AM - 2PM
BarCampTexas Brunch
Location: Triumph Cafe (map)
| | Thursday, August 10th, 2006 | | 11:19 am |
| | Sunday, August 6th, 2006 | | 7:34 pm |
| | Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 | | 10:04 pm |
| | Wednesday, June 14th, 2006 | | 11:21 am |
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