Greetings List Lurkers,
Again, a robbery of my time this week from the pristine world of open
source, but at least this time I was able to eat the culprit...
I was just minding my own business when someone showed me a table laden
with delicious food, so innocently I started to nibble and suddenly, it
was Sunday night midnight, and I was just finishing the cranberry apple
crisp (with home made whip cream :^) This was when I realized that I had
been robbed! That damn turkey...
"O Turkeys," said the Geek,
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none--
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one
So much for vengeance, and cuisine...
But you have heard it all before, like last week.
You see I had all these plans for stuff I was gonna do.... yea like prepare you
for the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI) Adult Swim.
The swim stars at 5:00 PM EST, our latest vanity being to include a goggle
hangout https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1 until 7:00 PM EST. I was
gonna do all this cool stuff...
I was gonna examinine the reality distortion created by our ongoing
relationship with Google, but the turkey set me up.
This weeks dereliction is not in the context of open source stuff, but it
is really about simple gluttony. My weight gain is pretty much all that
got done.
We still got nothing done in website land, nothing working a bit better,
despite the the new look on http://www.bosivt.org. We intend to add a
link to my latest derangement http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash...
I am crying out for help here!
Despite an overall ennui we expect to hear that the good folks from RBT
show up to this meeting. In my own imaginings I see our collective snouts
covered in delicious pizza supplied by none other than "el presidentie"
Rubin, why is it always about food? Note that Rubin Bennett Technologies
is one of the finer firms in the Washington County, Vermont area that can
and does specialize in Open Source so we will collaborate in order to that
we can carry their information (Atta boy, Rubin:^).
You would think with the weather finally changing the landscape to white,
the furmon would be very much in play, but no I got to stuff myself with
stuffing and gravy...
we have a humidity feature, but it really looks like we need the TSPs.
last week we got a new shipment of sensors in and we are still hoping to
get the data off the pellet furnace... and attack the data with Python,
Stuff it into MRTG, maybe make it into SNMP MIBS, instead we put in the
heat pump for the master bedroom.
I feel so dirty having blown last weekend on literature, and this weekend
on gluttony.
The "tsp" site would have been updated: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp and
should contain more pictures and we have have pictures of the enclosure now as
well as snippets of mini-term and how you can remotely sample data. That said,
we would have gotten back to thinking about all the other projects, Javascript,
the snowbot and Robots Rules. But instead we read.
We should also be working on another Arduino alarm thingy. Hopefully my
new illiteracy will, allow this to develop. Other ongoing, or realistically
not so ongoing... projects, but again not as cool as the furmon progress
include:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/arduino - moving in the arduino groove
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/javajive - to get better at Javascript
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp - Temperature Sensors Project
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/robotsrules - The quest for Roberts Rules of Order
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash - Yea, I am not kidding...
Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software meeting and general hucksterism. That said, we expect to acquire more
of the Dallas Semi "1-wire" temperature probes, and we just got another the
Arduino, with two ethernet shields. The shield TCP/IP stack is apparently done
in around 10K. We live in an age for miracles, this remains the coolest thing
all year. This all fits neatly in the magic plastic wire-mold box...
Do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", the DVD are soon to
be available, I just made isos of each and every one. Don't reveal your
source, as I think I have some fines overdue...
Anyway, come and do open source stuff. For more information about the BOSI
Adult Swim meeting time and location try this:
http://family.flint.com/adult_swim_location/index_html
But the key appears broke. More stuff to fix, and still not fixed.
Show up at the the Hedding United Methodist Church Basement if you have
questions or are interested in Linux or the concept of free and open systems,
The basement of the Hedding UMC facility is actually working out pretty well.
If you wish to be included on the "Linux_adult_swim" mailing list, send a
response to this note. Note that the mailing list system is a bit peevish
right now. Let me know if you have any difficulties. Note that I will be
updating the list-server by next week.
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
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