Re: [Eug-lug] faceybook....

2011-07-20 Thread BB
The theater that had FREE beer!? ...any who...I saw the movie also; it was a bit of fluff. It's merit was that it forced my to look up what really happened. I had rejected Facebook, earlier, when Microsoft bought in, I feel my decision was born out by the way things went after that. These days

Re: [Eug-lug] faceybook....

2011-07-20 Thread Hippy Nerd
[like] On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:19 AM, seymoor nates mikem...@efn.org wrote: Aw Pop, he started it . . . (I'll be better, I promise). On 7/18/2011 9:54 PM, Hippy Nerd wrote: Both of you, off to bed with no desert. Dont make me come up there. to tell you to go to sleep.

Re: [Eug-lug] faceybook....

2011-07-20 Thread David Nelson
I think you meant…. +1 :P On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Hippy Nerd wrote: [like] On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:19 AM, seymoor nates mikem...@efn.org (mailto:mikem...@efn.org) wrote: Aw Pop, he started it . . . (I'll be better, I promise). On 7/18/2011 9:54 PM,

Re: [Eug-lug] faceybook....

2011-07-20 Thread Hippy Nerd
I should have posted both! On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:21 PM, David Nelson da...@davidnelson.net wrote: I think you meant…. *+1* :P On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Hippy Nerd wrote: [like] On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:19 AM, seymoor nates mikem...@efn.org wrote: Aw Pop, he

Re: [Eug-lug] faceybook....

2011-07-20 Thread Ben Barrett
Anyone remember our old geek code? Who was Seth++ and who was not... and so forth... On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Hippy Nerd hippyn...@gmail.com wrote: I should have posted both! On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:21 PM, David Nelson da...@davidnelson.netwrote: I think you meant…. *+1* :P

Re: [Eug-lug] faceybook....

2011-07-20 Thread Mr O
Well unless you want to talk about their use of linux then this thread is beyond dead. I mean, you could continue this discussion on your wall if you like but the EUGLUG list just doesn't need any more. That be all, Mr O. ___ EUGLUG mailing

[Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread Ben Barrett
I wish to ask the group: (as in, whomever cares to read, consider, and respond) Do we as a group want to use social networks to further the group itself? It seems to me that we're free to carry on and be unique as members, of course, but that we might want to agree as a group about some of

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread David Nelson
I am relatively new to the group (also went to ITProForum for the first time last night) so take my opinion with a grain of salt… I had been meaning to come to meetings for quite some time but it's easy for a time and date to get lost in a flurry of email. If there was a Facebook event

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread Ben Barrett
Oh, that's a good point. Meetup has gotten very popular. Are we okay with popular/populist outlets and tools? It does seem to go against the grain of the spirit of our movement... Ben On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:51 PM, David Nelson da...@davidnelson.net wrote: I am relatively new to the

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread larry price
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ben Barrett stircrazy...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, that's a good point.  Meetup has gotten very popular.  Are we okay with popular/populist outlets and tools? It does seem to go against the grain of the spirit of our movement... I don't think anyone has a problem

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread David Nelson
In my opinion any tools that get used should be ones that people access on a regular basis, or where the data can be aggregated to the reader of your choice. For example I see Facebook, Twitter and Google+ every day on my phone and get push notifications of new messages and invitations. I don't

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread seymoor nates
With no wish to hijack the thread please lemme post links to a show y'all have prob'ly seen long since but which I found engaging. It's a BBC docu- by Adam Curtis called All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace and it posits that we've been colonized by the very machines we built to help

[Eug-lug] Survey input

2011-07-20 Thread Lorraine Kerwood
Hey there, I am on a workgroup along with local businesses, the Eugene Chamber and Lane Workforce Partnership, to see if we can prepare more local people for tech jobs in our community. Employers say they have a hard time finding qualified employees and job seekers say their are no jobs locally

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread Lorraine Kerwood
Watching this and loving it. Thanks for the post! lorraine -Original Message- From: seymoor nates mikem...@efn.org Reply-To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group euglug@euglug.org Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:14:11 -0700 To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group euglug@euglug.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread seymoor nates
Kool--makes up for my snotty posts about face... Don't you love the Ayn Rand stuff? All those silicon valley dweebs naming their children after her . . . Just spoke with a young man who bragged that she's his favorite author. Tried not to cringe--but I did turn and stare at him--till I

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread Hippy Nerd
I think we should use social networking like we've used the web, newsgroups, and conventions and meetings. It would be great if we could tap in to radio or TV, but we havnt had anyone venture into those areas. Its a way to engage the public, inform them, and bring interested people to the lug.

Re: [Eug-lug] means to and end?

2011-07-20 Thread Alan
On Wed, July 20, 2011 3:17 pm, Ben Barrett wrote: I wish to ask the group: (as in, whomever cares to read, consider, and respond) Do we as a group want to use social networks to further the group itself? euglug is an anarcho-syndicalist commune so no approval is needed to do any sort of