[Build] intro

[neil maclean]

Hi,

I've been to three Noisebridge events: June's Five Minutes of Fame, last 
week's weekly meeting and last night's builder's meeting at 2169. I 
joined this list yesterday and I have read some of the archives. I have 
been reading the wiki occasionally for a few months. Your decision to go 
for the new space definitely perked up my ears and I've decided to get 
more involved and see where it leads.

I 've been an electrician, mostly in the Mission area for 25 years. The 
last nine years I worked at New College including building the "Digital 
Theater"  (a suite of ten work stations and a recording booth) and the 
Broadcast Theater in the Creamery, (a forty seat multipurpose classroom 
and community radio broadcast theater.)

Since New College closed last June, I have been looking for ways to 
continue the programming I had established at the college. The most 
prominent realization of that has been working with Artist Television 
Access to broadcast community discussions of Ohlone leaders (San 
Francisco's original inhabitants, poster attached.)

I will try to get it together to present at the upcoming Five Minutes of 
Fame so you all can get a glimpse of the social hacking I am trying to 
do with broadcast media.

On the building topic, I'm willing to help do electrical work and I have 
some other relevant skills, I am still trying to see where I might best 
be of service.

I'm going to help Shannon raise the florescent lights in the East 
section tomorrow. (I propose raising them to near the ceiling unless 
anyone has an objection. My perspective is get them as far out of the 
way of projection range as possible.)

I'm a bit concerned about the lack of a plan both for the space and for 
the process of building the space, but I'm really encouraged by the 
sense of making it work that I'm seeing.

see you at 2169 tomorrow or otherwise.

Feel Real Neil


PS to Jim: I was hoping to run into you at the meeting last night. If 
you want me to plug in with the electrical let me know.


They further concluded that at least 8 detainees in US custody were 
tortured to death. Steven Miles, reporting in this journal, put the 
number of deaths due to torture at 17, with 11 cases occurring in Iraq 
and 6 occurring in Afghanistan.[8] 
<http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1868355#R8> 
Many of these deaths involved torture or abuse related to harsh 
interrogations of the detainees by US personnel.

from: Public Medical Records Central: a free library of Life Science 
Journals
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1868355

-- 
"The crimes of the US throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them"
Harold Pinter, who died on Dec. 25th, 2008