Just another geek in San Francisco
With major help from Miloh from Noisebridge, the launch of the DorkbotSF Ustream channel.
Other Opendorks were taped, but not streamed.
More info on the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting.
Crazy? Or crazy awesome? Jon Sarriugarte & crew demonstrate a 1928 Hogan Tesla Coil on volunteers around 1am at the Dorkbot-SF 7th Anniversary Party.
More info at the sites for Jon Sarriugarte, Form and Reform (the venue), & the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting.
Greg Leyh talks about the state of the art of big tesla coils, for Dorkbot-SF. The Q&A starts about 20 minutes in.
The video’s at Vimeo, along with the video of the Tesla coil demonstration that followed.
Greg Leyh has more information at the Nevada Lightning Laboratory & Lightning on Demand sites.
The Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting has more media, including more video of the coil demonstration.
Dave Mathews (with one “t,” not two) gave a presentation – “Software is the New Hardware” – for Dorkbot-SF in March, at the Hat Factory.
You can follow him on Twitter – @ggdm.
Bruce Damer talks about meteors hitting the earth, probing & mining asteroids, creating new lifeforms, sustainable space travel, & more.
Bruce Damer
The EvoGrid
2009-04-08
Dorkbot-SF
At The Gallery with No Name
More info at (primarily) damer.com though digitalspace.com & evogrid.org & b612foundation.org & biota.org are closely related.
Mitch Altman talked about the invention of TV-B-Gone & lifehacking, for Dorkbot-SF, at PariSoMa in San Francisco, CA.
The video’s on Google Video.
More info:
Cornfield Electronics
the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting
PariSoMa
Jeremy Bornstein demonstrates the making of soap, for Dorkbot-SF, at Polly Harrold’s Sometime Gallery, in Oakland, CA.
It’s just under 28 minutes long.
Video posted at Google Video & also Vimeo (as an experiment).
Silicon Valley Homebrewed Mobile Phone Club, held in conjunction with the Emerging Communications Conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Mark Wood talked about the Cell Broadcast System, for broadcasting text messages over geographic areas. He’s the CTO of CellCast, & he lectures on Disaster Telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin. He also works with organizations such as ETSI, ITU, & the Civil Emergency Alert Service Association.
For more information, see hbmobile.org (currently down).
Video – Posted at Google Video.
Audio – mp3 – 62 min, 44 meg, 96kbps.
Edit: Here are some supplements while hbmobile.org is down: a new mailing list, a working mirror of the wiki (content dating from late February), & the mirrored meeting announcement, in which it becomes clear that the description above was swiped.
Soon after being uncovered as Fake Steve Jobs, Daniel Lyons visited Books Inc. in San Francisco to talk about the experience of writing the blog.
He talks about the genesis of the larger-than-life persona, the joys & contortions of working with Forbes, My Little Pony, company access, appearing in slash fanfiction, FSJ crushes (Bike Helmet Girl & Veronica Belmont, who were present), appearing at Microsoft, trolling with intentional mistakes, Krasnodar (sp?), Russia, clowning the audience, siooma, & more.
The camera was awkwardly placed in front of a column, to stay out of the way. So, even though I sat right in front of Bike Helmet Girl, she and everybody else in the audience is off-camera. Sorry.
Video is up at Google.
mp3: 51 min. 37 meg @ 96kbps.
Edit: Whoops, I meant “Bike Helmet Girl,” not “Bicycle Helmet Girl.”
Charlie Stross visited San Francisco for a reading & Q&A at Borders – Union Square. This was the last event in his October 2007 tour of the West Coast, in support of Halting State.
Here it is on Google Video. If you want to skip the reading, the Q&A starts around 40:25 in – if I got that link right.
Download the mp3: 70 min, 50 meg.