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Greetings List Lurkers, 5 PM will find yours truly on a train crossing the Massachusetts border. That said, this may be the perfect time to continue our evaluation of Jitsi, a meeting software which will allow us to join Hac-DC for their "Microrocessor Monday" meeting, where Julia and KJCole can share the skinny about our Rootic Overlords... Simultaneously Shawn-of-the-dead will support the acquisition and preparation of no doubt contraband Pizza, and shall introduce the Hobbit as Seargent-At-Arms. I expect to sign into this madness at 5 PM... For you Yak watchers - hang on till next week, they are indeed still out there! Sincerely, Flint Remote in Connecticut... On Aug 13, 2018 08:11, "Paul Flint" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Greetings List Lurkers, 40th Anneversary Yak shaved. Come for pizza! Flint On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 08:57 Paul Flint <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Greetings List Lurkers, > > Monday morning looking pretty good, and we shall have pizza... > > On to the Yaks! > > YAK SHAVING > > To stipulate, 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 > > This 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 last week showed off his lighting system, which is so damn > cool I cannot believe it. I am working on documentation. Very awesome... > > Juypter Yak. Is the answer to all of my problems Juypter Notebooks? If so > why > is Anaconda such a dog to install? (Forth week on Yak list). It the > ticket to > do this all in Docker? Why can't I get off the dime with this? > > 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... > > We marched in the Barre Heritage Day parade, and I learned an important > lesson - On a float use a Raspberry Pi for audio control. While an > Android tablet or phone appear to do the job, do not be fooled, they are > unreadable in the sunlight, and fail in the most interesting ways while > trying to send a song to an amplifier... > > If you want you can find out more information about the campaign by > keeping an eye on the web site > > http://flint43.us, > > Part of this Yak is that I may have successfully devised a sign making > system here at the house. I finished painting the test sign last night. > The sign performed way better than the electronics... > > Next up is the Primary... > The next step is to light up the sign for use August 14th at the polling > place. > > Way too many Yaks not enough time... > > CNC Bit Yak > > After breaking way to many bits, Anderson our excellent neighbor pointed > out that we need new spindle motors. Got them they are beautiful. Now > for the adapter plate... > > The new Yak - "gotv.sh" > What I want to get running is a Get Out The Vote system called govt.sh, > which > is, of course, a new Yak. Next step - Get on to Vote Builder... > > > > 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 prayers... 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 and on... 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 work on a policy paper about our Rights! > > Kindest Regards, > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > (802) 595-9365 Cell > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint, Director > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://family.flint.com/flint > Gplus: [log in to unmask] > Skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux_adult_swim mailing list > [log in to unmask] > http://docbox.flint.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux_adult_swim >