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theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

uncurable mlady posted:

in it; voted 5

this but the opposite

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May 11, 2004

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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:


A SELECTION OF EMAILS RECEIVED BY THE YOSPOS HACKERSPACE LIST

sleepdepcat@yahoo.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] WELCOME TO YOSBRIDGE, A COMMUNAL HACKERSPACE
ntwn@feeid.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] this space is misnamed
rotor@palm.info - RE: [YOSBridge-Discuss] this space is misnamed
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] what about YHSPOS (was: this space is misnamed)
pnut_n_leo@sniep.junk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] is it kombucha in the mason jars [pics] [56k no]
FCKGW@RHQQ2.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] lack of consensus around space name
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked gom to leave, will not (12 year old, redhead)
fish@mech.com - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] shut up about the name you retards
old_postman@hotmail.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] official pette
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] can whoever is pissing in the sink please stop
t0ri@aol.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] visiting from the philly hackerspace
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] seriously stop pissing in the sink
brunhilde@catte.org - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked rotor to leave (70-yr-old palm hacker)
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i have removed the sink
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] cops called to space
pisssnake@gmail.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i have restored the sink
bsdgrrrl@uu.net - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] asked fishmech to leave
osi@beanrecipes.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i just spent 3 hours fixing a leak because you keep loving with the space where the sink was
sere@witty.joke - [YOSBridge-Discuss] dont talk to cops (was: cops called to space)
fish@mech.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] talk to me
ntwn@feeid.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] why does my rfid key not open the door any more
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] killhamster, your coin miners made us fail our electrical inspection
k_hamster@lj.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] fygm
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked killhamster to leave (dreadlocks, buttcoin tee)
k_hamster@lj.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked rufo to leave (girl with the corgi)
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] anti-fluoride posters in bathroom
lum@chrom.au - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] found johnny sleeping in crawl space
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] where does it say sleeping isnt allowed
lum@chrom.au - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] in the loving lease
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] oh
sleepdepcat@yahoo.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] shutting down the space
bsdgrrrl@uu.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] rip YHSPOS, 20141201-20141202
sere@witty.joke - [YOSBridge-Discuss] its YOSBridge you piece of poo poo


goldmine, close thread

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:


A SELECTION OF EMAILS RECEIVED BY THE YOSPOS HACKERSPACE LIST

sleepdepcat@yahoo.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] WELCOME TO YOSBRIDGE, A COMMUNAL HACKERSPACE
ntwn@feeid.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] this space is misnamed
rotor@palm.info - RE: [YOSBridge-Discuss] this space is misnamed
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] what about YHSPOS (was: this space is misnamed)
pnut_n_leo@sniep.junk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] is it kombucha in the mason jars [pics] [56k no]
FCKGW@RHQQ2.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] lack of consensus around space name
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked gom to leave, will not (12 year old, redhead)
fish@mech.com - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] shut up about the name you retards
old_postman@hotmail.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] official pette
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] can whoever is pissing in the sink please stop
t0ri@aol.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] visiting from the philly hackerspace
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] seriously stop pissing in the sink
brunhilde@catte.org - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked rotor to leave (70-yr-old palm hacker)
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i have removed the sink
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] cops called to space
pisssnake@gmail.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i have restored the sink
bsdgrrrl@uu.net - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] asked fishmech to leave
osi@beanrecipes.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i just spent 3 hours fixing a leak because you keep loving with the space where the sink was
sere@witty.joke - [YOSBridge-Discuss] dont talk to cops (was: cops called to space)
fish@mech.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] talk to me
ntwn@feeid.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] why does my rfid key not open the door any more
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] killhamster, your coin miners made us fail our electrical inspection
k_hamster@lj.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] fygm
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked killhamster to leave (dreadlocks, buttcoin tee)
k_hamster@lj.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked rufo to leave (girl with the corgi)
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] anti-fluoride posters in bathroom
lum@chrom.au - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] found johnny sleeping in crawl space
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] where does it say sleeping isnt allowed
lum@chrom.au - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] in the loving lease
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] oh
sleepdepcat@yahoo.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] shutting down the space
bsdgrrrl@uu.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] rip YHSPOS, 20141201-20141202
sere@witty.joke - [YOSBridge-Discuss] its YOSBridge you piece of poo poo

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

I'm glad I wasn't in it because I'm not a Yosposter.

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:


A SELECTION OF EMAILS RECEIVED BY THE YOSPOS HACKERSPACE LIST

sleepdepcat@yahoo.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] WELCOME TO YOSBRIDGE, A COMMUNAL HACKERSPACE
ntwn@feeid.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] this space is misnamed
rotor@palm.info - RE: [YOSBridge-Discuss] this space is misnamed
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] what about YHSPOS (was: this space is misnamed)
pnut_n_leo@sniep.junk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] is it kombucha in the mason jars [pics] [56k no]
FCKGW@RHQQ2.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] lack of consensus around space name
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked gom to leave, will not (12 year old, redhead)
fish@mech.com - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] shut up about the name you retards
old_postman@hotmail.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] official pette
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] can whoever is pissing in the sink please stop
t0ri@aol.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] visiting from the philly hackerspace
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] seriously stop pissing in the sink
brunhilde@catte.org - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked rotor to leave (70-yr-old palm hacker)
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i have removed the sink
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] cops called to space
pisssnake@gmail.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i have restored the sink
bsdgrrrl@uu.net - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] asked fishmech to leave
osi@beanrecipes.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i just spent 3 hours fixing a leak because you keep loving with the space where the sink was
sere@witty.joke - [YOSBridge-Discuss] dont talk to cops (was: cops called to space)
fish@mech.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] talk to me
ntwn@feeid.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] why does my rfid key not open the door any more
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] killhamster, your coin miners made us fail our electrical inspection
k_hamster@lj.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] fygm
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked killhamster to leave (dreadlocks, buttcoin tee)
k_hamster@lj.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked rufo to leave (girl with the corgi)
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] anti-fluoride posters in bathroom
lum@chrom.au - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] found johnny sleeping in crawl space
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] where does it say sleeping isnt allowed
lum@chrom.au - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] in the loving lease
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] oh
sleepdepcat@yahoo.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] shutting down the space
bsdgrrrl@uu.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] rip YHSPOS, 20141201-20141202
sere@witty.joke - [YOSBridge-Discuss] its YOSBridge you piece of poo poo


owns

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:


A SELECTION OF EMAILS RECEIVED BY THE YOSPOS HACKERSPACE LIST

sleepdepcat@yahoo.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] WELCOME TO YOSBRIDGE, A COMMUNAL HACKERSPACE
ntwn@feeid.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] this space is misnamed
rotor@palm.info - RE: [YOSBridge-Discuss] this space is misnamed
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] what about YHSPOS (was: this space is misnamed)
pnut_n_leo@sniep.junk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] is it kombucha in the mason jars [pics] [56k no]
FCKGW@RHQQ2.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] lack of consensus around space name
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked gom to leave, will not (12 year old, redhead)
fish@mech.com - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] shut up about the name you retards
old_postman@hotmail.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] official pette
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] can whoever is pissing in the sink please stop
t0ri@aol.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] visiting from the philly hackerspace
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] seriously stop pissing in the sink
brunhilde@catte.org - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked rotor to leave (70-yr-old palm hacker)
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i have removed the sink
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] cops called to space
pisssnake@gmail.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i have restored the sink
bsdgrrrl@uu.net - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] asked fishmech to leave
osi@beanrecipes.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] i just spent 3 hours fixing a leak because you keep loving with the space where the sink was
sere@witty.joke - [YOSBridge-Discuss] dont talk to cops (was: cops called to space)
fish@mech.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] talk to me
ntwn@feeid.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] why does my rfid key not open the door any more
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] killhamster, your coin miners made us fail our electrical inspection
k_hamster@lj.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] fygm
moose@rufo.info - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked killhamster to leave (dreadlocks, buttcoin tee)
k_hamster@lj.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked rufo to leave (girl with the corgi)
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - Re: [YOSBridge-Discuss] anti-fluoride posters in bathroom
lum@chrom.au - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] found johnny sleeping in crawl space
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] where does it say sleeping isnt allowed
lum@chrom.au - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] in the loving lease
jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] [YHSPOS-Discuss] oh
sleepdepcat@yahoo.com - [YOSBridge-Discuss] shutting down the space
bsdgrrrl@uu.net - [YOSBridge-Discuss] rip YHSPOS, 20141201-20141202
sere@witty.joke - [YOSBridge-Discuss] its YOSBridge you piece of poo poo


you forgot me :(

mido@whitenoi.se - [YOSBridge-Discuss] white noise yhpos memes thread

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
I'm

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

jhny219@busliving.co.uk - [YOSBridge-Discuss] asked gom to leave, will not (12 year old, redhead)

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
i'm the .info email addresses

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

theflyingexecutive posted:

this but the opposite

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

quote:

Subject: [hackerspaces] a (card) game about hackerspaces
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 21:28:49 +0200
From: overflo <flo@tekstix.com>
Reply-To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List <discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org>
To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List <discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org>


hi there!

some days ago we [0] decided we want to make a game that we could have
manufactured and bring to the CCCamp this august.
it will probably be a card game as these are cheap to make and easy to
replicate.
the game will be released under CC-BY license so everybody can do
whatever they want with it.

if you want to contribute please join out malinglist here:
https://lists.metalab.at/mailman/listinfo/thegame
the malinglist will be kept english to get international contributions.

we are currently in the very early stage of planning the game concept.
if you are a graphics guy and this sounds like a cool challenge and you
have time to contribute, please join us!

please join us for discussions whatever it is you can contribute.
we will also make some kind of project log for this, maybe on
hackaday.io, we also started a wiki page on the metalab wiki [1 & 2] but
this is currently in german. (will be i8n soon).

have a lot of fun!
-flo [3]

--------
[0] https://metalab.at
[1] https://metalab.at/wiki/Hackerspacegame
[2] https://metalab.at/wiki/Hackerspacegame/Kartenspiel
[3] https://metalab.at/wiki/Benutzer:Overflo


COPYPASTA from thegame@lists.metalab.at

--------


hi,
thanks for being part of this, if i added you and you dont want to be
part of it: sorry! please just unsibscribe.

what is it about :
we want to make a (card) game about hackerspaces
the game will be produced professionally in a small batch production run
it will me released und a CC-BY licence so people can make whatever they
want with it.
the current idea is to make this a card game with ~55 cards.
it is not clear what the goal of the game will be.
maybe a multistage game like builing the space, running the space,
(nonviolent) world domination!
or something completely different!
i think of something like 1000 blank cards, munchkin, cards agains
humanity .. something like that.
we could also have a dice in the game to add some random().
i think the first step should be to come up with a game concept.
whats your favourite card game?

then we could collect all kind of stories from hackerspaces around the
world that we could somehow use in the game.
(maybe we could even add a QR code with a link to story related content
ont he intertubes?)
the crazier the story the more fun the game.

we could have something like "discussion cards" where you can play an
argument card or simply argue yourself.
topics like
- is it safe to cut __________ with the laser cutter?
- this guy just offered to teach a class on how to make meth on the
public ML.
- can we smoke around the place ? what can we smoke?
- how to handle the radioactive material on the lounge table?
- whats up in reactor #3 ?
- this guy just moved in for some weeks and lives under the shelves
- ________ broke can can we fix it with _______ ? (duct-tape always
wins here.)
- a reaction card "call in a jour fixe" concsequences: none. discard
the card.
- the kitchen is rotting away
- the "food" in the fridge because self-concious. the revolution is
immanent.
- trolls are eating up all the mailinglists
- someone suggest that we should all wear slippers
- a hacker stacker sleeping accomondation is intalled in ________
- _______ suggest a workshop on ___________
- the skalarwellengenerator broke
- illuminati are the cause of all this

i think you get the basic idea.
i would like to discuss how the game could be built at starters.
a vague concept for the GOAL a vague concept on the game mechanics.
maybe we could keep this thing extendable?
how about a relative straight forward gameplay and later you can have
the expension pack that adds "discussions" to the game?


i hope for the best ideas, where shall we document the progress?
titanpad is good for live discussions
a wiki is good archive ideas (i suggest we use the metalab wiki)
maybe we could take this a project on hackaday.io?
what do you think?

i found a lot of inspiration on the noisebridge mailinglist.
(http://shitnoisebridgesays.tumblr.com/)
the guy that LIVED (not) under the elevator is GREAT thread
(https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-July/thread.html#38236)


:*
-flo



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Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

quote:

Dear Noisebridge & others,

Tony Longshanks LeTigre here with what I intend to be my final message to
this mailing list. I unsubscribed my Gmail account from NB-Discuss earlier
this year but left my Riseup subscribed in Digest mode. Not once in the
past few months have I so much as glanced at the Digest, but now I hear
I'm on the agenda to be banned from Noisebridge at tomorrow night's
meeting. The crime, according to rumor, is my now-infamous mishap with the
Noisebridge elevator that happened back in May. I feel the need to correct
a little misinfo that's been going around re: said incident. But first,
let me say what an honor it is to be deemed important enough to warrant an
agenda item at the Tuesday night meeting. What a shame I probably won't be
able to attend! For what it's worth, I am fully in favor of being banned,
& in fact I have already to a large extent banned myself from Noisebridge
by ceasing to work & spend any time there, as a couple people may have
noticed.

Truth is, I don't wish to attend the meeting, or spend time at NB any
more, because my recent experiences there, on the few occasions when I've
stopped by, have been largely negative & repellent. Leif & others seem to
have taken on the role of "the management" & are banning people right &
left (including a number of my friends & now myself), patrolling the
space, & otherwise making an Orwellian mockery of this supposedly
"anarchist" hackerspace. If what I hear is true---& I hope it's lies &
distortions---it sounds as though those in power have done away with
consensus in favor of majority-rule democracy, have resorted to dredging
up decade-old emails to justify slamming the door on people they don't
like, & are attacking the kitchen with renewed force in hopes of closing
it down & thereby doing away with the needy parasites that it attracts.
Like many people who consider themselves anarcho-something-or-other, I
have a strong principled dislike for police & authority figures---whether
actual uniformed law enforcers, or just ordinary citizens with an
unfortunate penchant for holding power & control over other humans.

Now, moving on to the elevator debacle. First of all, I never at any time
LIVED, nor intended to live, in the 1st floor elevator compartment of 2169
Mission. I pity the poor urchin who would consider that stuffy,
junk-filled cubicle a desirable, or even possible, living space. For a
couple weeks back in April/May of this year I was forced to store my
clothes & other stuff in that compartment for lack of any other option.
Yes, I knew I wasn't supposed to, but I felt that I had helped NB & its
hangers-on enough in the past to justify this breach of etiquette, &
anyway it was only a temporary stopgap til I found more suitable storage
space. One afternoon/evening in early May I was in the cubicle arranging
my things in preparation to move it all to a better spot I'd found.
Normally I left the elevator door open so as not to be locked in the
compartment if the elevator moved to a different floor, but in this case I
knew it would take me a block of time to properly sort through all my
crap, & I didn't want to monopolize the elevator if others needed to use
it. So I closed the elevator door, locking myself in with a flashlight, &
got to work. "What are the chances the elevator will have a meltdown
during the one hour that I'm in here?" I asked myself (rhetorically).

To my amazed chagrin, that is exactly what happened. The elevator left the
1st floor & didn't come back. Eventually I figured out someone must have
taken it offline. I decided there was nothing to do but wait for it to
come back in service; in the meantime, I continued sorting & packing,
until my flashlight went dead. Then, since I was tired, it was nighttime &
I figured the elevator wouldn't be fixed until the next morning, I went to
sleep as best I could in that cramped space. This is the one & only time I
ever slept in that compartment, mind you, rumors to the contrary. When I
woke 10 hours or so later, there was still no sign of the elevator
returning to normal operations. Now, for the first time, I started to
worry. I had minimal food & no water with me. I thought of the guy I'd
heard about who had recently been crushed by the BART elevator after
deciding to sleep on top of it. I tried to remain calm & occupied myself
by going through all my belongings a second time, then a third....why the
Hell wasn't anybody fixing the goddamned elevator? At a certain point I
really started to freak out. After I'd spent more than 24 hours locked in
that space, I was becoming seriously dehydrated. With a surge of
adrenaline I grabbed a thick board & started pounding on the walls of the
cubicle, hoping to attract attention. Then I smashed the glass diamond
window in the elevator door & tried to reach through & somehow get the
door to open from the outside. No luck, that thing's hydraulic, you'd have
to be the Incredible Hulk. Finally, I managed to punch a hole with the
board through the drywall. I enlarged it until I could crawl through into
a dark, cobwebby crawlspace beneath the front staircase. I could hear
people talking, walking up & down the stairs at intervals of a few
minutes. I was out of the suffocating cubicle, but still not free. I began
pounding at the stairs from below wioth the board, then slicing at them
with a knife. At this point one of the guys from Mi Ranchito below NB in
the same building came over to investigate all the noise & saw my
knife-blade sticking through the gap in one of the steps. I don't know if
he thought I was some insane burglar trying to break into the building, or
what, but I managed to talk to him through a hole in the wall of the
entryway. He brought me a bottle of water & called Wei Ho, the property
owner, & got permission to tear up one of the stairboards so I could crawl
out. Barely: it was so tight my chest got compressed on the way out, but I
was free at last!

I was shaken & wanted to simply disappear, but I knew I had to stick
around & deal with the consequences of my misadventure. I apologized to
the Mi Ranchito guy, & to Wei Ho when he & his wife arrived a little while
later to inspect the carnage. I asked Wei Ho not to blame Noisebridge for
my poor judgement, took full responsibility for the incident & promised
him I would fix the broken staircase. I spent the rest of the night
patching the broken stair as best I could & cleaning up the entryway. My
stuff remained in the cubicle, & the elevator was still offline, but I
resolved to get in there, clean everything out & patch up the drywall as
soon as humanly possible. Some of the hackers upstairs were privy to
events below by this time & came down to question & shame me. In the event
it was several more days before the elevator was operating again. (I still
don't know what happened or why it was taken out of service, I hear
something about the Department of Health.) I took what was most important
of my things but left the rest. I lacked the skill to repair drywall &
knew I should ask someone to help, but I really wanted to forget the whole
incident. And that was pretty much that. I didn't get too much backlash
for the event, until recently. That's because the elevator mishap is being
used by Tom & Leif, I believe, as a scapegoat: the real reason I'm being
censured at the present time is because I dared to defend one of my
friends from their attacks.

It happened Friday night of Pride weekend, June 28. Veronica & I stopped
at Noisebridge on our way downtown from the Castro. We were in a festive
mood, which Noisebridge soon soured. Almost immediately we ran into people
with attitude problems, & the space I'd once loved more than any other in
San Francisco felt hostile & unfamiliar. Leif & Tom Lowenthal were
patrolling the space swooping down on people they didn't like, issuing
citations for bad behavior, threatening to kick people out. They harassed
Jimmy Flowers---a generous guy & friend of Noisebridge who has been
bringing in platters of free food several nights a week for a long
time---until he stormed out of the space in a rage. I hadn't met Tom
before, so I don't know if he was in an especially belligerent mood that
night or if that was his normal lovely self, but he was on a rampage &
didn't know when to quit. He reproached Veronica for eating the snacks
Jimmy F had brought in, saying the food would be left out on the counter
all night & attract rats & other vermin, a known problem in the past. His
tone & attitude were way out of line, & V told him so, asking him to
address her with respect & as an equal instead of barking orders. This
enraged Tom further & he demanded she leave immediately & not come back to
NB until next Tuesday meeting. At this point I stepped in & told him to
back off, stop barraging the space with negativity & find something
creative to work on. Tom then realized who I was & invoked the elevator
incident to demand that I leave the space & never come back. I replied
that I hardly ever spent time at NB these days anyway & said I'd leave in
my own good time, not at his command. Tom continued badgering V & I,
trying to drive us from the space, until even Leif was trying to calm him
down. Eventually he subsided. V & I both left, separately & of our own
volition, a short while later.

So that's that. I can't make the meeting tomorrow. Do what you will. If
you value a piece of drywall more than me, my contributions & my life,
then I don't want to be part of your community anyway. There was a time
when walking up the long staircase of 2169 Mission filled my stomach with
butterflies & my ears with sublime Cocteau Twins music: I knew I was about
to enter my favorite spot in the City, surrounded by friends & limitless
creative potential. It doesn't feel like that any more. Spaces change over
time, & people do too, & maybe we're just not a good match any more. I
don't want to be exiled from the space forever---I'd like to stop in from
time to time, things could change after all & the hostility I sense now
might dissipate, who knows?---but if that's not an option, my life will go
on. I will always love the Noisebridge I remember. It was truly a
life-changing miracle for me when I discovered it in 2011. I hope I get a
chance to write about it all some day.

That's about it. Sorry, verbose as usual.

+11+


--
Glam...or tramp?

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

OSI bean dip posted:

it is not clear what the goal of the game will be.

so, accurate to real life then

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
i am completely over noisebridge and spend no time at all thinking about it any more, and here are 10000 words explaining why

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

FMguru posted:

i am completely over noisebridge and spend no time at all thinking about it any more, and here are 10000 words explaining why

and not a word among them about what he actually accomplished there, only that he used to like it as a place

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

The crazed elevator/stair hobo adds a nice ambiance to the place.

crusader_complex
Jun 4, 2012
you cant fire me, i quit!

The Eyes Have It
Feb 10, 2008

Third Eye Sees All
...snookums

FMguru posted:

i am completely over noisebridge and spend no time at all thinking about it any more, and here are 10000 words explaining why

Ban me? I have already basically banned myself I don't want anything to do with nb nemore it sucks now & I'm clearly unwanted HAVE A NICE LIFE LOOSERS

btw I'll still stop by sometimes of course nb changed my life

loving :lol:
creepy loons are the same everywhere

The Eyes Have It
Feb 10, 2008

Third Eye Sees All
...snookums
Btw I want toclarify that i am being banned for TAKING the NECESSARY ACTIONS needed to SAVE MY LIFE I was trapped b/c trying to fix things wo bothering anyone you can't prove that's not true so you have no right to treat me life a weirdo who was living and making GBS threads behind the elevator

Ps I 1000% believe this myself because I have a reality distortion field that rivals any billionaire's

Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014

OSI bean dip posted:

then we could collect all kind of stories from hackerspaces around the
world that we could somehow use in the game.

This is the closest I could find to the kind of card I expect in this game:

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Buttcoin purse posted:

This is the closest I could find to the kind of card I expect in this game:


tap to destroy creature type: soldering iron

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

and oh yeah I totally didn't break the elevator, nope not me

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Buttcoin purse posted:

This is the closest I could find to the kind of card I expect in this game:



Colorless instants?! What a loving world we live in.

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.

maniacdevnull posted:

Colorless instants?! What a loving world we live in.
catch up, gramps

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Elysiume posted:

catch up, gramps


This is bullshit.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Elysiume posted:

catch up, gramps


holy lol

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost
[Noisebridge-discuss] Wet butts ahoy
Jeffrey Carl Faden jeffreyatw at gmail.com

Introducing the newest space hack: a bidet!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lld9y602x96vc9f/photo%20apr%2027%2C%2010%2047%2026%20pm.jpg?dl=0



I got a free one via Amazon for one reason or another, so I thought I'd install it here.


I didn't feel the urge to test it out, so if anyone is courageous enough to try it and report back to me, I'd be interested to hear whether the water pressure verges on painful. If so, I'd happily donate a T-valve to reduce flow.


Just-In-Timeberlake
Aug 18, 2003

ayn rand hand job posted:

[Noisebridge-discuss] Wet butts ahoy
Jeffrey Carl Faden jeffreyatw at gmail.com

Introducing the newest space hack: a bidet!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lld9y602x96vc9f/photo%20apr%2027%2C%2010%2047%2026%20pm.jpg?dl=0



I got a free one via Amazon for one reason or another, so I thought I'd install it here.


I didn't feel the urge to test it out, so if anyone is courageous enough to try it and report back to me, I'd be interested to hear whether the water pressure verges on painful. If so, I'd happily donate a T-valve to reduce flow.




they should put up a sign that says this isn't a water fountain

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

ayn rand hand job posted:

[Noisebridge-discuss] Wet butts ahoy
Jeffrey Carl Faden jeffreyatw at gmail.com

Introducing the newest space hack: a bidet!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lld9y602x96vc9f/photo%20apr%2027%2C%2010%2047%2026%20pm.jpg?dl=0



I got a free one via Amazon for one reason or another, so I thought I'd install it here.


I didn't feel the urge to test it out, so if anyone is courageous enough to try it and report back to me, I'd be interested to hear whether the water pressure verges on painful. If so, I'd happily donate a T-valve to reduce flow.




i love every part of this

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

i want to drop a dook on the control panel

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

ayn rand hand job posted:

[Noisebridge-discuss] Wet butts ahoy
Jeffrey Carl Faden jeffreyatw at gmail.com

Introducing the newest space hack: a bidet!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lld9y602x96vc9f/photo%20apr%2027%2C%2010%2047%2026%20pm.jpg?dl=0



I got a free one via Amazon for one reason or another, so I thought I'd install it here.


I didn't feel the urge to test it out, so if anyone is courageous enough to try it and report back to me, I'd be interested to hear whether the water pressure verges on painful. If so, I'd happily donate a T-valve to reduce flow.




3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

they should put up a sign that says this isn't a water fountain

it is a water fountain

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970


hovered over this hot linked image, did not get alt text

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
someone shat on the drinking fountain :xd:

The Ghost Writer
Jun 27, 2012
:ghost:
Shameful Outlet
At an old job we got a new CFO (no one cared) and a week or two later we get this furious all-capitals email to all staff that started with

SOMEONE HAS poo poo OUTSIDE OF THE TOILET

and he proceeded to lose his mind in email form at all staff in general and whoever the sick barbarian was in particular












The office I worked at had a sales floor and the bathrooms (same bathrooms for staff and customers) were open to the public. Why he assumed it was one of us I have no idea.


this was well before Noisebridge existed so the mystery remains unsolved

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug

The Ghost Writer posted:

At an old job we got a new CFO (no one cared) and a week or two later we get this furious all-capitals email to all staff that started with

SOMEONE HAS poo poo OUTSIDE OF THE TOILET

and he proceeded to lose his mind in email form at all staff in general and whoever the sick barbarian was in particular












The office I worked at had a sales floor and the bathrooms (same bathrooms for staff and customers) were open to the public. Why he assumed it was one of us I have no idea.


this was well before Noisebridge existed so the mystery remains unsolved

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

BONGHITZ posted:

hovered over this hot linked image, did not get alt text

i'm sorry, bonghitz :(

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

it is ok, clicking on it brought me to the website where i was able to see the text properly

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

quote:

Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Blankets and pillows and things
Date: 2015-04-29 10:36
From: Torrie Fischer <tdfischer@hackerbots.net>
To: noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net

Noisebridgers,

Please do not sleep at Noisebridge. Discussion about it causes way too much
emotional energy to be wasted when people could be hacking a thing. The dead
horse of whether or not its okay to sleep at noisebridge has been beaten into
a very fine mist at this point.

This morning I found a big bag of blankets in the pantry. It had some contact
information on it, so I'm making an effort to contact the person directly
before I throw it out. If the bag was on the project shelves I would be less
grumpy since then I could delightfully turn a blind eye to this as it'd be
part of a project or another. Instead it was hidden away in a less traveled
portion of the space where normally only boxes of toilet paper and such goes.
Raises a few red flags in my eyes.

Last night when moving the couches around I found another big pile of blankets
behind it. I put them on top of a couch then put another couch on top of it.
This morning the blankets were gone and the couches were reconfigured into a
more stable arrangement. Having no direct evidence of sleeping, I cannot make
a definitive claim, but, come on. I've been around the block a few times.

Don't get caught sleeping at Noisebridge. Don't leave piles of things around
that indicate that you're sleeping at noisebridge. Be excellent and don't turn
Noisebridge into your home. I want to hack in a space for hacking, not hack in
someone's living room. It makes me grumpy and many others feel the same way.

If I find all these blankets in the space again I'll just throw them out and
be even grumpier. There are other places that are specifically built to help
starving hackers:

https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Starving_hackers

Noisebridge is not one of those places. Noisebridge is a space for hacking and
I have not been convinced in the last 26 years on this planet that sleep
hacking involves regularly sleeping at a hackerspace.

Thanks for reading my early morning rant <3

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

how many furious/passive agressive replies are there

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SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe
I bet noisebridge is absolutely crawling with bed bugs

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