pronoiac announcements

SVHMPC / hbmobile - 2008-03-12

pronoiac — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:50:18 +0000

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.

2008-05-14 - Ocean Beach

pronoiac — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:35:52 +0000

This is all surf. There’s almost nothing from nearby cars, people, dogs, or seagulls.
mp3 - 59 min, 56 meg.

Random noodling

pronoiac — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:35:40 +0000

I set up another area for my random noodling around, such as recreating an… unusual… font.

Fake Steve Jobs, 2007-11-02

pronoiac — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:33:19 +0000

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.”

2007-02-01 - She’s Such a Geek, reading 2 of 2

pronoiac — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:26:19 +0000

This is the second reading I went to; here’s the first.

Liz Henry recapped this live. (This is how you liveblog.)

In order, the readers this time: Kristin Abkemeier, Ellen Spertus, Jenn Shreve, Corie Ralston, Charlie Anders, Annalee Newitz, and then Q&A.

Download the audio (62 minutes, 44 megabytes): MP3

2007-01-25 - She’s Such a Geek, reading 1 of 2

pronoiac — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:05:41 +0000

Annalee Newitz & Charlie Anders edited & contributed to “She’s Such a Geek,” a book about women in domains traditionally viewed as being only for men. This reading took place at City Lights on 2007-01-25. There’s a good summary of the event up on the blog for the book.

Contributors who read this time (in order of reading): Devin Grayson, Michelle Villanueva, Charlie Anders, Quinn Norton, Morgan Romine, & Annalee Newitz. A Q&A followed.

Download the audio (59 minutes, 42 megabytes): mp3

(No AAC in the foreseeable future.)

Charles Stross - 2007-10-12

pronoiac — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:53:14 +0000

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.

2007-10-10 - Mark Pauline at Dorkbot Todd Blair fundraiser

pronoiac — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:15:14 +0000

The beginning of Mark Pauline’s presentation at the Dorkbot Todd Blair fundraiser was moving.

I posted the video over on Google video, & here’s the audio as an mp3.

Edit: The Dorkbot fundraiser continues, & there’s a blog tracking Todd Blair’s recovery.

Jonathan Coulton, 2007-09-14

pronoiac — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:45:14 +0000

Jonathan Coulton performed at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California, on September 14, 2007. I’m one of a few people to post video. Pirates & video links after the cut. See Jonathan Coulton’s blog entry for that performance for more information, or other recordings. He also has a forum posting about this show.

The opening band, Paul & Storm, got the benefit of very shaky camera work. (It gets much steadier. Promise.) They asked for audience participation for a song about pirates. It’s called The Captain’s Wife’s Lament.

Jonathan Coulton started playing, & (four songs in) a place for a tripod opened up. Since I hate shaky-cam, I’m not posting those.

A Talk with George
Skullcrusher Mountain
A bit of banter, involving a butchered stuffed animal.
I Crush Everything
Tom Cruise Crazy - fixed
Code Monkey
Make You Cry
Creepy Doll
I Feel Fantastic
This camera’s still new to me; it presented the time oddly, so Mr. Fancy Pants was interrupted by a tape swap.
Mandelbrot Set
You Ruined Everything

The battery died in the beginning of Re: Your Brains. Mostly, these were split before encoding, but the encoder - mencoder - choked on certain time ranges. So, for some songs, I encoded the whole thing then split it up with avisplit, which caused a few seconds of overlap on those songs.

Again!

pronoiac — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:44:55 +0000

Okay, let me try starting this thing up again.