Greetings List Lurkers,
A gorgeous morning here in Central Vermont.
I will be provisioning the Adult Swim larder with enough pizza, but sadly
my presence at the actual Adult Swim with again be precluded by some
family business. I hope to get back either during our 5-7 PM window or
sometime near this time.
Thus, it seems we shall be relying on the redoubtable Shawn-of-the-dead
to get the meeting started and the pizza cooked. This is Shawns Yak.
That said, when will these Yaks let us be?
YAK SHAVING
To review, shaving one Yak is the basic unit of activity for what I appear
to be doing all day. Thus, what we are doing is lining up the Yaks of
last week and comparing them to the Yaks of next week, extracting the
present Yaks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mmISldi060
I have ongoing research as to exactly what evening is "Yackmas Eve", but as you
can clearly see, this is yet another Yak to shave...
The above is considered the highest form of Yak Shaving, which is recursive...
The morning the Yaks hover around me, all looking to be shaved... Let me
just write about them in what appears to be priority order:
Son Yak:
#1 son got me a copy of his lighting system, which is so damn cool I cannot
believe it. I need it documented. Thankfully, the little bugger showed
up here and is slowly turning the whole thing on...
Juypter Yak.
Is the answer to all of my problems Juypter Notebooks? If so why is
Anaconda such a dog to install? (Third week on Yak list). It the ticket
to do this all in Docker?
Yet another Yak
As the Flatland Fred Tuttle... I am on the ballot for Washington County Vermont
House District three. It turns out there will be a primary August 14th...
The good news is we make a showing - somewhat irrevalant at the July 3rd
Montpelier Independence Day celebration... We gave out "Flinty Bars" to
many there including:
- Patrick Leahy
- Bernie Sanders
- Peter Welsh
- Phil Scott
Many snickered, but none refused. The new order of bars is due Friday the
13th... How can it get any better? If you want you can find out more
information by keeping an eye on the web site
http://flint43.us,
Part of this Yak is that I have successfully devised a sign making system here
at the house. The test sign dis not make it out of the painters hands, But yea
we are Gonna test out this sign making system. I believe that a big
ornate sign at the polling place will help with name recognition.
Way too many Yaks not enough time...
CNC Bit Yak
Now I need it to do finished holes. This involves learning a great deal about
Routers, not the IP kind, but the kind you can break bits in... The kid
is on this right now.
CELL Yak
Another Yak that I am looking for is a way to dial a cell phone via the Android
Developer Port. This is gaining in importance...
So, the short answer is we are still here and the meeting will take place today
at 17:00.
Our standard topics once again remain:
- Open Source Educational Human Development
I am changing the priority
of our eternal needs, and placing education first, as manifest in a
Barre Brain Barn. - Maker Movement A Maker Space in Barre? Why not? We
clearly have a Maker Faire profile. Could it be that the commercial power
centers are beginning to appreciate the value of the maker movement.
See: http://bbbvt.org/
Here are the city and statewide plans:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb
who has good ideas about a Barre Maker Space. Why not do digital
stone soup?
- Move BOSI towards reStructuredText.
I am researching a tiddly2rest converter. This would allow us to become
more git centric... avoid the need to change to gittlywiki...
We still need to convert... Maybe the answer is Juypter Notebook...
- Blue Sky R&D,
Except in Vermont it will be Gun-metal Grey Sky(c) R&D
(GMGSR&D). The kid is in town... A great researcher...
- I fought the DREK and the DREK continues to win. Remember, What
really is holds us back is DREK!!! DREK is what happens to your
workspace (both hardware and software) when you fail to put stuff
away, or you let your friends or relatives use it. This is a cosmic
law. While having #1Son around helped, I am still fighting DREK.
How to get over it? The secret may be empty pellet bags.
TechnoRubble is hereby defined as organized DREK. DREK is
just what you get prior to something becoming TechnoRubble.
Just to let you know I am desperately trying to turn DREK into
TechnoRubble. The ultimate goal being the development and
implementation of the TechnoRubble Taxonomy.
These four points are really Yaks and are quickly becoming more than our
policy, less like conventional Yaks, and more like a prayer... But from
now on they are Yaks.
On this last area here at Casa Flint Labs, we have made progress, as the
DREK is in remission, and Spring Cleaning continues into summer. Do not
all volunteer at once!
Anyway, we have the technology and we will have Pizza tonight 5-7 at Hedding
UMC. Accept no substitutes... For those coming in via voice or the Internet,
so not forget this information:
...and we hope that there are folks who are gonna try, the swim "TADA" starts
at 6:00 PM EST.
Our ongoing major objective is to continue to try to figure out how to invest
the time and resources to turn the Barre Open Systems Institute into more than
just the Adult Swim technical clinic and more into a real learning facility,
and figure out where our good chairs went. One direction we have been working
on is to begin thinking about classes. The curriculum that I am most interested
in is teaching documentation.
The goal of the meeting shall be unusual, as it will be more about planning and
vision and less about how to get organized and try to get the various projects
moving forward, despite DREK. We continue to wonder about how to build the BOSI
curriculum to this web page:
http://bosivt.org, works, and has just been updated.
Remember, the BOSI Adult Swim is essentially about helping out fellow users of
open source products in a clinic environment. Despite my very best of
intentions, the Adult Swim is really almost a perpetual Linux install-fest, and
only secondarily a learning environment.
The ever growing list of Yaks (previously called projects, now on our web site
:^) includes the following with no particular organization or accuracy:
http://www.bosivt.org - Must feed this hungry beast. http://bosivt.org, works,
and has just been updates see javascript link to http://family.flint.com/flint
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/flint.com/tada
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#MinecraftRaspberryPi Pi Minecraft, cool.
http://www.lakecraft.net/ This is the site we want to get Pi Minecraft working
with. http://bbbvt.org/ Barre Brain Barn. http://ledroid.org Ok, this is a real
project eh? http://docbox.flint.com:8081/travel#VTMakerConf2017
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/technorubble#TechnoRubbleTaxonomy
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#PiRFID
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/trantor
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/blockchain#blockchainttt
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb http://docbox.flint.com:8081/vm A Docker copy
of VM370 http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle The Kindle Liberation Front
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/pyrs A pythonic interface to Income Tax?
http://bzinga.net What happens when you combine Bash and Zenity?
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/nodejs ok, it is on the list.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/snobot jesum they love this robot
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/furmon monitor that pellet furnace
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 -
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash Yea, I am not kidding...
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/mrtg remedial raw mrtg for the slow...
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry all versions
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/strembot.org maybe a very cool project.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/organized oh please let me be organized!
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/music this may be the least organized
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb A big noble idea.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/grantbot A less noble idea to feed the
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/gitlywiki is tiddlywiki5 the answer?
http://docbox.flint.com:8080/bosivt.org/directions or, go to http://bosivt.org
This list has been updated... Next we shoot for accuracy!
Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software discussion and general system rejuvenation. Expect to be remotely
preached at on the various topics of Open Source and how I am confident it
shall cure all the evils and ills of this wicked world. In a perfect meeting,
people would come in, sit down, see the stuff we have been doing and hopefully
help us get the DIY stuff we are doing done, or maybe just fix a laptop.
So, do not forget that the Aldrich Barre library stocks "Linux Format", and the
latest issue is on the shelf, and it is good. The DVD's are available to
checkout and copy, we shall to continue provide copies and isos of each and
every one. I am continuing to duplicate about a years worth of DVD's which is
quite a task. You may want to watch this space for developments.
Anyway, come and do free and open source stuff. For more information about the
BOSI Adult Swim meeting time and location try this:
Directions to the Adult Swim:
http://docbox.flint.com:8080/bosivt.org/directions or, go to http://bosivt.org
and click on directions.
Show up at Hedding UMC if you have questions or are interested in Linux or the
concept of free and open systems. Again, we are in the basement of the Hedding
UMC facility which we like pretty well.
If you wish to be included on the "Linux_adult_swim" mailing list, send a
response to this note, or contact me.
I expect to be chastised by eagle-eyed Dr. Mark, or god forbid, Effin. Note
that Dr. Mark remains our Honorary Editor.
It is summer. Lets hit the Adult Swim!
This done, I am gonna get lunch and work on fixing the sign... or maybe take a
nap!
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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