Hi, Just letting you know that I got your email message and am acknowledging as you requested.
Does your group have meetings other than the Swim? Or--is the Swim the meeting? Thanks, I\/I ark On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings List Lurkers, > > This is 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<https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1>until > 7:00 PM EST. > > The big news is that the BOSI vice president, (motto: vice is nice, but > liquor is quicker yew can drank alda liker in costa ricker :^), has some > tee shirt scam going...http://teespring.com/**BOSI<http://teespring.com/BOSI>. > If it is not a Pocket TEE BOSI will have nothing at all to do with it. > > This weekend, like an opium addict carving the Meerschaum in the bowl of > his tar pipe, I find the NetFlix addiction overwhelming... I went and > wired a hardware port from the area behind the pellet stove to the network > so I could have NetFlix without issue or interruption. I still need to > form an addiction support group. As you may recall, #1 daughter gifted us > an Apple branded stream viewer (iTV but at least I am not buying from the > iTunes store!), at risk of repetition, NetFlix is the most perniciously > addictive form of entertainment - you sit passively and consume any movie > or TV show that strikes you (and Netflix's) fancy. The result is you watch > and stay warm (I wired the LCD to one of the pellet stoves...is is pretty? > nah...), and forget about getting anything done. > > Which when the weather you experience and your house-mate has a cold > conspires to eviscerate all priorities. This weeks triumph of engineering > was to complete the changeover contactor switch-gear to flip the water > heater to electric whenever we get a hard alarm from the pellet furnace. > BTW this does not happen often if you keep the silly thing clean, but fact > is I may be a bit of a slob...so we need this backup mechanism. Completing > this bypass for the water-heater pellet furnace allows that if the furnace > goes into alarm mode, it throws a contactor and we heat morning shower > water with (gasp) electricity. Yea, it is expensive, but a better > alternative than a cold shower on a work day. The switch hardware is > actually elegant, the final part is getting a proper NEMA plug/socket set > for 220V. > > All this while reading Bill McGibben's book "Eaarth"... It appears that > according to bill we will leave our children a planet fit for Vampires and > Flesh Eating Zombies (FEZs). If you knew my kids you would be comfortable > with this (at least they are not lawyers!). > > The furmon is working but I need to rewrite the Arduino output for a bit > more sanity. Todays activates at the Swim are gonna involve checking out > the donated hardware we just acquired. Making the world safe for Ubuntu is > not for the faint of heart. > > The "tsp" site has been updated: > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**tsp<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp>and we > expect to get 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. We are making no > progress...(damn you Netflix!) > > The ever growing list of projects includes: > - > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**arduino<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/arduino>- > moving in the arduino groove > - > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**javajive<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/javajive>- > to get better at Javascript > - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**tsp <http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp> - > Temperature Sensors Project > - > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**robotsrules<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/robotsrules>- > The quest for Roberts Rules - > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**visual.bash<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<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 > > > /************************************** > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > > Consilium _ > gratuitum .~. 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