eric’s extremeboredom

(All photos credit whoever they link to, I don’t have a working camera right now, sadly.) Yesterday was opening day for the new South Lake Union Streetcar line in Seattle, WA. This is not to be confused with the first stretch of light rail, scheduled to arrive late 2009. I met a group of friends [...]

I’ve been working with a few other people to resurrect GSLUG, the Greater Seattle Linux User’s group. The next meeting is this Saturday (September 1st, 2007) at 12:00pm, here’s the announcement that Ian sent out on the list: The September 2007, inaugural meeting of the Greater Seattle Linux Users Group (GSLUG) will be held on [...]

I’ll be heading down to Portland tomorrow afternoon for Ubuntu Live! and OSCON. I’m really looking forward to meeting up with Chris and Steve, both of whom I haven’t seen in over a year. Hacking BoF I’ve organized a “hacking session” BoF at Ubuntu Live, anyone interested in improving Ubuntu and GNOME is invited to [...]

This past weekend was ToorCon Seattle (Beta), a weekend long free & invite-only get together of around 100 security professionals and hackers. It was a lot of fun! Talks were on Saturday at the Last Supper Club. A list including slides are up on the website. Saturday night’s party was at the Public N3rd Area, [...]

Two weeks ago (Monday, March 5th, 2007 – I am obviously a bit late in posting this) Galan, Ben, and I went down to the new Sound Transit Operations & Maintenance Facility for the official dedication and the first public tour. Seattle has been in great need of a good public transportation system for a [...]

Saturday’s field day was a success! The alki group got together around 11:30 and quickly had a link to the folks at magnolia. The primary form of communication between sites was FRS, which was absolutely horrible. Apparently everyone else could here us fine, but we could barely hear anything, and had to constantly ask the [...]

This Saturday (October 28th, 2006), SeattleWireless is holding our second Field Day. From the website: Field day is a free hands-on, all-day exercise for those interested in learning about wireless networking and community wireless networks. We will be setting up a mesh network at three parks around Seattle: Alki, Magnolia and Gasworks; as well as [...]

Tuesday was the official Day Against DRM. I met up with a few people downtown at pike place market and handed out lots of stickers and flyers.

Today was the first annual Seattle Power Tool Race & Derby. If you weren’t there, you should have been. More photos on flickr.

From http://freedomhec.pbwiki.com/: Coming to Seattle in May for that other hardware conference? On your way out, stay for the hardware unconference where you’ll learn how easy it is to make your hardware compatible with free, open source operating systems such as Linux, and available to new markets such as servers, next-generation entertainment devices, and more. [...]