Just another geek in San Francisco
Mitch Altman talked about the invention of TV-B-Gone & lifehacking, for Dorkbot-SF, at PariSoMa in San Francisco, CA.
You can watch the video at Google Video or Youtube.
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.
This is all surf. There’s almost nothing from nearby cars, people, dogs, or seagulls.
mp3 – 59 min, 56 meg.
I set up another area for my random noodling around, such as recreating an… unusual… font.
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.”
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
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.)
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.
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.
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