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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.

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.