Brian Jepson's WeblogRants and Raves from Kingston, RIProvidence Geek Dinner-tomorrow, June 18- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This is going to be good! BatchBlue is returning to give us a progress report on how much cooler they've become since they last presented at a geek dinner! Details and RSVP. See you all there!http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/06/17/providence-geek-dinner-tomorrow-june-18/ Mysterious creatures found in Antarctica- (Found July 2, 2008 ) MSNBC reports: "They had fins in various places, they had funny dangly bits around their mouths," Riddle told reporters. "They were all bottom dwellers so they were all evolved in different ways to live down on the sea bed in the dark. So many of them had very large eyes ...http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/02/19/mysterious-creatures-found-in-antarctica/ Providence Geek Dinner Wednesday March 19th- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This geek dinner is going to be a lot of fun. It's got mobile technology, a company who uses my favorite phone in their demo videos, what more could you ask for Oh yeah, geeks, beer, and tacos. Come out and see Gypsii talk about their mobile social networkinglocation based ...http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/03/15/providence-geek-dinner-wednesday-march-19th/ Pondering the stack- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I've got a lot of interesting stuff queued up, but I lack the time to play around with it. But I promise to get to them soon and blogtwitterflickrblip.tv all about them: Chemistry set I've been helping out with the editorial work on Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments, so I picked ...http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/04/08/pondering-the-stack/ You Sure Want to Be in Providence- (Found July 2, 2008 ) When you read an article like this one, and when you're part of a community that has an answer to the question, it's hard to stay quiet. Joey deVilla gave Toronto a shout-out in his blog (and he has an awesome graphic to go along with it). Although Providence wasn't mentioned ...http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/04/22/you-sure-want-to-be-in-providenc/ Providence Geek Dinner Tonight!- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Read all about it and RSVP right here.http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/04/23/providence-geek-dinner-tonight/ Tom Sgouros demos my Arduino buddies at Maker Faire- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Inspired by SocialBomb, a few of us AS220 geeks have started working on a similar project: Arduinos that pair off and get happier the closer they are together. The first iteration of this is the Arduino Buddies, but eventually, we'll have this on a PCB and will include some ad-hoc ...http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/05/12/tom-sgouros-demos-my-arduino-buddies-at-maker-fair... Overriding EEE PCs drive letter assignment for USB devices- (Found July 2, 2008 ) When you plug a USB device into the EEE PC, it makes it look like it has a Windows drive letter by mounting it on something like mediaD: This is fine for a lot of stuff, but I have a USB drive I want to put a VirtualBox virtual machine ...http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/05/19/overriding-eee-pcs-drive-letter-assignment-for-usb... Youve got Internet meme in my RL- (Found July 2, 2008 ) CC-licensed Lolrus image from Pete Mandik's photostream on flickr Life here in southern RI is not quite as boring as I let on. A few weeks (or was it months) ago, a story broke about a woman who was discovered in a sorority on campus, and in the process of being ...http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/05/30/youve-got-internet-meme-in-my-rl/ Providence Geek Dinner this Wednesday February 20th- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Photo Credit: Bret Ancowitz, M.D. There's another Providence Geek dinner coming up this week; don't miss it!: Andrew Schiller, founder of Woonsocket-based Location Inc.NeighborhoodScout.com, a nationwide neighborhood search engine for home buyers and movers with 1.8 million unique visitors last year, will be talking about their patented search technology that answers the ...http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/02/18/providence-geek-dinner-this-wednesday-february-20t... |