The rain earlier in the day kept us from meeting on top of teletubby hill, but we did find a nice dry concrete bench in the middle of the park to sit down and geek out. A battery/inverter setup was brought for portable power, but it didn’t really work out. Converting DC to AC back to DC eats a lot of juice and is best to be avoided. Portable lithium on the other hand, is pretty cool. I imagine by the end of summer we’ll all be showing up with solar rigs and windmills.
Casey, who has been missing in action for quite a while, showed up with his 3d camera and took a few pictures around the park. I got to play light meter with my digital, so it should be interesting to see how his shots turn out.
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Wireless wise, Joe broke out the UMTS and added to the list of open APs. Bryan got openbsd installed on his laptop, some cable crimped and did a bit of new geek in town networking. We realized Jesika’s place could probably cover the park easily, and started murmuring about what it would take to put a park node up. Not bad for a day in the park I thought would be called on account of rain.
It’s Sunday on Broadway, and you’ve still got some time to make it to the Farmer’s Market. If you want to get some Walla Walla onions that were still in Walla Walla when you were out drinking last night, you’ve got until three o’clock to get down to the Bank of America parking lot. There’s live (country) music and free cheese if onions aren’t your thing, but if nothing else there excites you, spice up some Noah’s bagels with the Rasberry Pepper Jelly from Woodring’s farm. You will not regret it.
If household items, fancy new (to you) sportcoats or just a later cutoff time are more your thing, check out the Seattle Men’s (and Women’s) Chorus’ 2006 rummage sale at the old gutted Safeway. It’s easy to find, located across the street from the gutted Bartells, gutted QFC, and the gut bomb Taco Bell. While we were there, everything in the place was made half price. My guess is by 4pm, you’ll be able to get Sylvester, Tweety and the porcelin duck here for pennies on the dollar.
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Tonight we met on Teletubby Hill at Cal Anderson Park, enjoying the sunshine and ripping through some Axis Digital Media Managers that Andy spotted on the way out of Vita.
We didn’t have power (I fear next week’s fixes), but we did have plenty of hardware in a pile, and once chris showed up, chips, dip and drinks. Not great for charging up gear, but great for energizing geekery. We all had a great time out on the grass, and as long as the weather holds up, we’ll be meeting in the park. If it’s rainy/cold/unbearable out, we fall back to Vita.
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Last night’s Hacknight was upstairs at Caffe Vita. We remembered to bring our own power strips, so there was plenty of power for all our gadgetry, we got the good seats by the piano, and after a bit of lease/re-lease action, we were all up on the not-so-hot-but-free vita wireless network. Andy brought his cheap chinese Internet radio squeezeboxy thing, and of course, it fell quickly to the screwdriver. Conversation jumped all over the map, but there were some new faces, so we covered a lot of the who/what/why of community wireless networks and of course, consolidation of the telcos, network neutrality and the other hot topics of the week.
The new faces weren’t quite sure what we were doing exactly, but they had heard of the project, and showed up to wish us much luck and good tidings in our network building adventures. Mostly it seems they were interested in free wifi, which they had already figured out how to get and wanted to make sure we were up on all the latest neighbor highjacking technology. We were. Tom, who has never shown up to HackNight before, but is subscribed to the lists and just figured out the wiki, offered to take our cash down to Portland so he could bring back tax free gear from invictus networks. Nobody took him up on it of course, but it was an interesting sell.
All in all, it was a good time had by all, and we wrapped up with mojitos and sandwiches at the nearby Honeyhole, which is unfortunately, not large enough for hijacking as a regular meeting space.
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I took a picture at Caffe Vita the other night, and included it in last week’s Hacknight post. Lo and behold, it is now on the front page of Utata with some nice words by Greg Fallis.
How cool is that?
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Not enough Seattle Wireless news for you here? Make sure you have Planet Seattle Wireless in your news reader. Want to put your blog on Planet? Show up to HackNight and ask someone about getting syndicated.
Thousands of immigrants and supporters marched in Seattle today, partially to stop H.R. 4437, a bill that would (in addition to other insane things) make it a felony to provide any aid (shelter, food, clothing) to illegal immigrants. I marched from Westlake to the Fed, and got some pictures along the way.
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Tonight’s HackNight started out in the park dissecting some gear, but after the rain that had been threatening to start all day finally started, we took cover in the Vivace roasting room.
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