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Dorkbot the first Wednesday of every month www.dorkbot.org

 
 
Caleigh
12:36 / 06.09.06
Explore the website and the past events, that pretty much says it all.
 
 
Caleigh
15:54 / 10.09.06
oh yeah, to make it very clear, if anyone is planning on attending any of the NYC dorkbot events let me know. we can arrange to all be carrying yellow roses or something so that we can recognize each other.
 
 
Triplets
17:24 / 10.09.06
Three questions:

1. What?

2. When?

3. Where?

Or are you that crap that after 3 years of being on Barbelith you can't handle these three simple tasks?

Oh, sorry. That was four questions.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
18:17 / 10.09.06
Caleigh, you're just not trying are you?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
23:30 / 10.09.06
People, maybe we should just ignore Caleigh? S/he is looking for friends and activity partners, and the way s/he is going about it has been rightly identified as unlikely to incline anyone to come along to these events or to want to hang out if they did. Short of deleting the threads, there's not a lot more to be done.
 
 
Caleigh
11:37 / 11.09.06
Here's an active link for those incapable of cutting and pasting

Dorkbot is a worldwide network of people exploring human/electrical interfacing. (which anyone could know if they explored the site but everything has to be on a silver platter here it seems)

Being worldwide, the events vary location to location but me being in NYC (which is in my profile) I generally attend the local one which is the first Wednesday of every month. Usually at 7pm but that changes, usually at LOCATION ONE LOCATION ONE

Funny that a previous time I posted just the link one of the attendees of another dorkbot managed to contact me by private message thus demonstrating her interest in the event and her interest in making contact.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
16:48 / 11.09.06
Seriously, dude, you are now a dude with a 'tude. We've explained, across three threads now, what we ask of people who want to use Barbelith as their LiveJournal. It shouldn't be beyond your wit to provide it, or to understand that if you don't provide people are going to respond adversely. This is pretty much socialisation 101.

Thing is, you have actually managed pretty much to do it, A link, an explanation of why it might be interesting... we're not asking for sex here. We just want to feel that you have some interest in contriibuting something of minimal interest in exchange for your board on the board. It doesn't even have to be miniminally interesting, really. It's about trying.
 
 
Caleigh
05:20 / 04.10.06
i'm bumping this topic because lo and behold, someone responded to the topic (though in the form of a private message) which i understand because who would be caught associating with the likes of me? only a fool. but, nonetheless 2 fools will be atteding the upcoming NYC dorkbort event. anyone who is interested will also probably have enough initiative and energy to cut at paste the website in the thread summary and can explore the site for details. some were posted previous to this, but you know.....
 
 
Char Aina
11:43 / 04.10.06
was the nonsensical use of brackets above 'ironic', intended to highlight how much cleverer than all of us you are?
 
 
Caleigh
17:22 / 04.10.06
is your totally unnecessary and negative intrusion into this thread really contributing positively to Barbelith?
 
 
Char Aina
22:28 / 04.10.06
i'm not sure how you define 'positively', so i'm not sure what you mean. the fact that you said intrusion and then defined it as both negative and unnecessary suggests your question is not genuine, and that perhaps i would be justified in treating as nothing but an attack.
i wont, though.


i was genuinely curious about your error, clarifying your intent before i told you stuff you already know about parentheses.
i even made an error of my own in the above post to join in the game, in case one was indeed afoot.

as for being here, i'm only in this thread because you mentioned electricity and strangeness in the abstract, two thing i love.

to be honest, having made my own way to the website you mentioned, i was struck by how misleading the summary was. my frustration with your approach may have come across in how i phrased my question, smacking as it did of an arrogant attitude towards other posters and their needs (namely the need to have a scooby what threads are about).
if so then i'm sorry about that, and i will endeavour to be more upfront about my frustrations in future to avoid such passive aggresion coming through in a point unrelated to it.

anyway.
you might want to check out the rules of grammar surrounding making sense with brackets.
 
 
Caleigh
02:53 / 05.10.06
you are what you "nick" yourself i guess
 
 
Caleigh
03:23 / 05.10.06
though maybe i should have placed the second bracket further along in the text.

i didn't realize that there were such strong grammar protocols here at barbelith. i will have to brush up or feel the wrath. *shiver*

oh, and what exactly was so inaccurate about my thread summary?
 
 
Char Aina
08:44 / 05.10.06
dude, the grammar protocols aren't just for barbelith. they are for the whole of the english speaking world, unless you know something i dont.

also, i didnt say your summary was innacurate, i said it was misleading.
there is a difference.

do you have a dictionary?


you are what you "nick" yourself i guess
i dont get it.
what do you mean?
 
 
Caleigh
13:47 / 05.10.06
so i was accurate but misleading? i must work for Bush

i'm glad that you have the time go to through each and
every thread in this area and correct any grammatical or
spelling mistakes. very kind of you. i guess mine was the only thread that you have had time to critique recently.
funny that.
 
 
Char Aina
14:16 / 05.10.06
dude, i already explained that i was reading this thread becase i had an interest in what i mistakenly percieved to be the subject matter.

as far as i know your summary was not innaccurate, it just wasnt complete.
i was led by your words to an understanding of the subject of this thread, and i was mistaken.
hence, misleading.
it's not very complicated, dude.
perhaps if you tell me which bit you find difficult?

here's another dictionary, in case that last one wasnt working for you.
 
 
Caleigh
16:31 / 05.10.06
that you were mistaken in your interpretation is not the
same as me being misleading.

this is indeed the trouble with barbelith. that people
inject unproductive and negative posts all the time just
so they can try and show how much smarter, better read,
better at grammar they are. none of your posts have in any
way indicated how my summary was "misleading". the quote
"people doing strange things with electricity" is from the
actual website. you of course never demonstrated any actualinterest in the topic of the website only interest in harping on about how i milead you with my not inaccurate
but somehow misleading summary.

you know, i think you just might achieve your objective of
driving from this site. congratulations.
 
 
Char Aina
18:42 / 05.10.06
my objective is nothing of the sort, you paranoid poster, you.

it was misleading because it didnt suggest to me that it was for people who do these things to congregate, but an event of some sort where i may go and watch these things being done by experts.
like a circus of electricity, filled with "people doing strange things with electricity".
my interpretation was only possible because your information was incomplete, dude.
i was saying you led badly, you misled.
if you wanted to know, all you had to do was ask.

it's really not that big a deal for me, though, and i can see it is already turning into one for you. i dont want you to feel you arent free to post as uninteligibly and incoherently as you want so i'll leave you to your self-important fantasies of being hounded off barbelith which, i promise, are unfounded.
 
 
Quantum
23:24 / 05.10.06
 
 
Caleigh
00:13 / 06.10.06
Quantum: that photos was from the May presentation wasn't it?
 
 
Quantum
15:42 / 06.10.06
It's my desktop background, stolen from the wikipedia article on Tesla. If I had any photoshopping skillz I'd put a ringmaster or an elephant in the pic to make an electric circus.
 
 
Caleigh
20:57 / 23.10.06
The 1729th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place on Wednesday, November 1st, 2006, at 7pm at Location One in SoHo.

Please bring snacks to share!

Featuring the fragrant and marvellous:


Albert Hwang: The Wiremap
The Wiremap is a design that uses an LCD projector and a custom surface to make real and interactive 3d images. The images rendered exist in the same spatial dimension as our bodies do, bridging the gap between digital 3d and analogue 3d. With this project, I hope to redefine how we encounter digital 3d. Instead of a collection of weightless polygons, digital 3d can engage with our bodies and our intuitive spatial instincts in a visceral and tangibly real way.
http://phedhex.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wiremap

Cameron Browning: Electrosketch
Electrosketch is an interactive art installation that uses a number of technological hacks to allow users to scribble paths onto the walls of their environment in real-time. During the short period of time the images are recorded, other users have the opportunity to use digital controls connected to the installation to manipulate the paths in 3D.
http://www.5cameron.com

Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski: sound art
EPG (Expanded Polyphonetic Generation) is an audio installation performance that uses an artificial mouth palate to control voice fragments. Using the voice of artist Meredith Monk, which is fragmented in over 3000 pieces (sylables and phonemes), two performers attempt to control the triggered samples with the mouth palate interface to build up an improvised (musical) communication between them.
http://www.bewernitzgoldowski.com
 
 
Caleigh
12:03 / 29.10.06
bump, since it's this coming Wednesday Nov. 1, day of the dead.
 
  
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