<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I'll be at the meeting tonight, and will love to talk to you about knots. </div><div><br></div><div>See you there.</div><div> - D</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Apr 14, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Shannon Lee wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Dougie,<br><br>I'm afraid that I was the moving force behind the Merit Badge project, and I've been letting it languish. If you're going to be at the meeting tonight, we should talk about knots -- the Knots and Splices badge is specifically one I put on there so I could have something to be an expert at!<br> <br>--S<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Dougie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daworley@gmail.com">daworley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style=""><div>Having come upon the page on the NB wiki on the <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/MeritBadges" target="_blank">Merit Badges</a>, I was wondering how much these have been put to use. I'm very interested in many of them, and can offer my expertise in a few.</div> <div><br></div><div>Namely, the <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/MeritBadges/KnotsAndSplices" target="_blank">Knots and Splices</a> Merit Badge is old hat for me. I'm a reformed Eagle Scout, and taught ropework and camp skills at summer camps for years in my teens. </div> <div><br></div><div>I would love to help teach you hackers how to tie useful knots or build a structure out of nothing but rope and wooden poles.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And, y'know... learning how to use ropes to your advantage definitely has it's advantages in, um, other aspects of one's life. ::evil::grin::</div> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Who should I talk to in regards to getting this off the ground, and the ball rolling for other NB Merit Badges?</div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Shannon Lee<br>(503) 539-3700<br><br>"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>