So I haven’t been dead, and I assure you there is a good reason I no longer post on my own site. I’ve actually been up to so much I don’t have time to post about it, at least not here.
I’ve been running FabLocker since I was elected in as Director/President back in December. Since then I’ve been really busy engaging in various activities there and taking care of business. I post a lot about their activities on their site(s), the website, Facebook, Meetup, Google+. I also post quite a bit of random stuff on my Google+ now since I can tailor my audience and its more intimate.
FabLocker seems to finally be hitting its stride, we are self sustainable in that we take in more money then we pay in operating expenses, we have various projects going on, members are joining, we have different classes and workshops going on any several nights a week. A lot of it has happened since I join, a small part of it as a direct result of my own efforts, but most of it is the members each starting to do something to contribute. Several members have their own talks, classes, and are doing what they can to make it somewhere people want to be. We’ve reorganized the space, have a classroom, electronics/project workroom, and now a new room for 3D printing and fabbing that was given to us at no extra cost to our rent. One of our members completely redid our web page and is now is easy to manage through as CMS using the Django Framework. We’ve started to have security classes/talks, classes on programming, developer talks, and we have even more in the pipeline. Several members have built or are in the process of building their own 3D printers, one has almost completed a quadcopter, and there are other projects in the works involving nearspace, solar balloons, bar-bots, etc. We are also giving talks at colleges, high schools, and participating with other local organizations on various efforts.
That said it has eaten so much of my time lately I’ve decided to step down at the end of the month. I’ve been trying to do so much I almost burnt out, and I haven’t had time to just be a member. Granted now that the space has hit its stride, I probably will have more opportunity to take my hands off the wheel and just let it coast or other members take over. But I think it would be good to get new blood, even though I’ve only been in office for 3 months, its a short term, but its been a lot in 3 months. I also don’t expect I’ll be less involved, just more able to pick and choose what I can get involved in.
I am also involved with FALE, picking locks, etc. I plan on going to several cons this summer, including CarolinaCon, SouthEast LinuxFest, the NC Maker Faire, and maybe a few others.
Everything else has been pretty good, we still love living in our house, I don’t mind the yard work too much. We plan on taking some trips soon, granted we took a pretty big one just after Christmas. I need to start sharing stuff on here again, but posterous has yet to integrate Google+ into it even thought the API has been available for a while now. Until then, I’ll just have to share it somewhere else.
One of my friends (the one who created the IT Crowd skins) and his daughter built a small metropolis (that is kind of an oxymoron) on my Minecraft server. I haven’t been very active on it lately so I was amazed by it and wanted to share.
(via wilwheaton)
“His philosophies are consistent and they do not waiver based on political polls or public opinion, his principles are based on fact and logic which is routed and rooted in the very foundation of America.” -Vince Vaughn on Ron Paul
I caught this on reddit the other day and found the whole conversation amusing (and the advice in it surprisingly effective)
After joking around with my friends about it on Google+ and creating a few of our own based on past pre-marital experiences we came across an idea about one of our friends, this friend can say practically anything to you in a completely platonic fashion that out of anyone else’s mouth would sound incredibly weird or like they were hitting on you. Thus, Totally Platonic Cody meme was born.
Now I realize that technically its not wide spread enough to be a “meme” in the traditional sense, but it is within my group of friends and its only been one day.
Also, I bought a house, this and my friends constantly taunting that having kids next is inevitable has produced a few ideas in some of the more well established meme graphics out there.
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t have the constitutional authority to vote in appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code. The Congress does. You and I don’t set fiscal policy. the Congress does. You and I don’t control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.
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This was originally written in 1984, nothing has changed since then.
