[Noisebridge-discuss] South Bay Surplus Crawl

Rachel McConnell rachel at xtreme.com
Wed May 13 18:31:59 UTC 2009


Isn't he in Venice or some such?  I dunno if others can drive it.  But
that would rock.

R

Corey McGuire wrote:
> What about Chicken's bus?  Maybe he won't flake for a day trip ;-p
> 
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org
> <mailto:jtfoote at ieee.org>> wrote:
> 
>     At one point I looked intro getting a bus for a dorkbot field trip,
>     but it was just too expensive. Thought it would be fun to hang out,
>     and maybe get dim sum in Cupertino, and hit Weird Stuff + Halted or
>     other places open on Saturday.
> 
>     It would totally rock to go on a bus, which would let us socialize and
>     also give us space to haul our loot back.  I called around
>     (teacherwiththebus.com <http://teacherwiththebus.com>, Green
>     Tortoise) and the going rate is nearly
>     $1000 for half a day, meaning we'd need 30+ people willing to pay $30+
>     in order to cover it, which I realize is kind of steep. (On the plus
>     side, it's totally legal to drink on the bus.)
> 
>     Here's a little form to gauge how much interest there is: please take
>     a look if you are at all interested:
> 
>     https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p0ZEnLfIiQr_jKv79OwpOBg
> 
>     I will publish results (minus identifying info) when/if it hits some
>     kind of critical mass
> 
>     On the other hand, can anyone suggest transportation alternatives?
>     Smaller vans? Personal cars + Twitter?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com
>     <mailto:rachel at xtreme.com>> wrote:
>     > Oh fun!  The next one appears to be June 13, which in no way conflicts
>     > with Maker Faire.  I'd be up for a field trip if I can wangle my sleep
>     > schedule around getting there at 5AM.
>     >
>     > grey wrote:
>     >> I realized it's electronics flea market season again; and we've
>     missed
>     >> the past two already!
>     >>
>     >> http://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/
>     >>
>     >> Anyway, field trip for the next one definitely seems in order; it may
>     >> conflict with Makers Faire; but not really - get there early for the
>     >> best gear and bring your out of town friends who are in town for
>     an idea
>     >> of what can be found.
>     >>
>     >> OR, bring our junk and try to drum up some revenue by selling it
>     off by
>     >> the pound!
>     >>
>     >> Anyway - if you've never been, you should be going.
>     >>
>     >> -grey
>     >> (I now return to my regularly scheduled ignoring mailing lists)
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