pronoiac announcements

Charles Stross, San Francisco, 2008-07-28

pronoiac — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:06:49 +0000

Science fiction author Charles Stross does a reading from “Saturn’s Children” & a Q&A at Borders in Union Square in San Francisco, 2008-07-28.

The video’s up at Vimeo.

His website’s accelerando.org.

Jeremy Bornstein & Lenny Raymond, The Mongoliad, Dorkbot-SF, 2010-06-09

pronoiac — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:03:57 +0000

Jeremy Bornstein & Lenny Raymond of Subutai talk about The Mongoliad, the new Neal Stephenson multi-media app & book, for Dorkbot-SF.

The video’s up at Vimeo.

For more info, see

Tim Hunkin, dorkbot-sf, 2010-05-05

pronoiac — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:07:47 +0000

Tim Hunkin, cartoonist & engineer with an impish sense of humor, demonstrates some of his latest arcade machines.

This is the second time he’s presented at Dorkbot – audio of his first presentation was the first recording I posted here.

Video’s available at Vimeo.

More info:

Tim Hunkin
the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting.
Parisoma, the venue.
Video also available at VidSF

Dorkbot-SF, 2009-09-23, lofi streaming video

pronoiac — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:36:42 +0000

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.

Jon Sarriugarte & crew, Hogan Tesla Coil demonstration, Dorkbot-SF, 2009-06-20

pronoiac — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:33:39 +0000

Crazy? Or crazy awesome? Jon Sarriugarte & crew demonstrate a 1928 Hogan Tesla Coil on volunteers around 1am at the Dorkbot-SF 7th Anniversary Party.

The video is up on Vimeo.

More info at the sites for Jon Sarriugarte, Form and Reform (the venue), & the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting.

Greg Leyh, Lightning Lab & Tesla Coils, Dorkbot-SF, 2009-06-03

pronoiac — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:07:30 +0000

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.

Cleaning

pronoiac — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:47:37 +0000

I’m moving much of my audio over to Amazon S3. Old links should keep working. I’ll check before I change the links & I’ll keep an eye out for breakage, but if I miss anything, please let me know!

China Miéville, 2007-02-28

pronoiac — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:26:17 +0000

From the archives, but previously unpublished: This is an old, lo-fi recording of a China Miéville Q&A from a couple of years ago, as part of his tour for Un Lun Dun, at the Fourth St. Berkeley location of Cody’s, now closed & dearly missed.

Listing the questions made it seem somehow less engaging, so I’ll leave those out, with the exception of a hard-to-hear reference: When he talks about his reading material, he mentions the story of Saki (the pen name of H.H. Munro) called Sredni Vashtar.

His latest book, The City & the City, is being published this month.

Download the MP3 – 38 minutes, 36 megabytes, 128 kbps.

I’m posting this at a new subdomain; let me know if it doesn’t work for you.

Dave Mathews, Software is the New Hardware, Dorkbot-SF, 2009-03-11

pronoiac — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:15:56 +0000

Dave Mathews (with one “t,” not two) gave a presentation – “Software is the New Hardware” – for Dorkbot-SF in March, at the Hat Factory.

Video available at vimeo.

You can follow him on Twitter – @ggdm.

Bruce Damer, The EvoGrid, Dorkbot-SF, 2009-04-08

pronoiac — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:19:14 +0000

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.

dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/archive/200904/