[Noisebridge-discuss] that dead television thing

Al Billings albill at arcanology.com
Wed Feb 18 20:30:04 UTC 2009


I'd be more sympathetic if I didn't live in the East Bay and have to 
come all the way over to San Francisco for hundreds of events (or 
anything Noisebridge...).

Cry me a river. :-)

On 2/17/09 9:27 AM, Lx Rudis wrote:
> i guess i'm glad they're doing it.  got card-carrying cyberpunque Bruce Sterling doing the eulogy and all.
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> but that does not erase the fact that this is happening in Berkeley...
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> television was invented _here_ in SF.  it was done by philo T farnsworth, and his laboratory was at 202 Green Street, i think the warehouse still stands and there is a plaque there.
> http://sfmuseum.net/hist10/philo.html
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> here's a statue of him in the presidio.  it's at lucasarts:
> http://sanfrancisco.about.com/od/attractionslandmark1/ss/lettermanarts_5.htm
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