[Noisebridge-discuss] Wall Status
jim
jim at systemateka.com
Mon Nov 28 21:58:58 UTC 2011
first try using a damp rag or big sponge to see
if you can smear down the high spots sufficiently.
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 10:13 -0800, Shannon Lee wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
>
> I believe that the mudding is finished in Church; what's going to be
> needed in there is sanding and painting. If you feel like
> contributing, grab some sand paper from the drawer in the shop and get
> to it!
>
>
> Warning: this is an incredibly dusty endeavor.
>
>
> --S
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Mike Schachter <mike at mindmech.com>
> wrote:
> Hey Shannon, thanks to you and everyone else
> for improving the space! I've been a long time
> Church room enthusiast and was gonna use it
> to give a little workshop tomorrow around 7pm,
> but if it's in disarray I'd rather show up and help
> out with something. So if there's a task I could
> take on let me know. Like, what are some basic
> things the Church room needs at this point, or
> will by tomorrow night?
>
> mike
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Shannon Lee
> <shannon at scatter.com> wrote:
> > Hi Noisebridge,
> > The walls around both classrooms and the shop have been
> extended to the
> > ceiling.
> > Sheetrocking is complete; mudding & taping was ongoing when
> I left a couple
> > of hours ago, but everything was winding down, and I suspect
> that it's done
> > for the night; when last I looked, Church and Turing were
> mudded, and much
> > of the outside was mudded; the shop still needs to be mudded
> inside and out.
> > I will likely not be back to this until this weekend, but
> anyone else who
> > wants to mud is more than welcome to do so; and of course,
> after mudding
> > comes sanding, and after sanding comes...
> > Painting:
> > We bought a 5 gallon bucket of primer, which I plan to put
> up sometime,
> > maybe next weekend; but honestly, we really, really don't
> need any more vast
> > expanses of white walls. Someone who has a Vision of what
> the walls should
> > look like, and the artistic skill to execute said vision,
> should make them
> > be something other than white. We really need some color on
> those walls.
> > Murals are totally welcome, simple non-white color schemes
> are equally
> > welcome, but someone for God's sake do something.
> > Power and Lights:
> > Turing and Church are without light. The shop has the light
> over the
> > central work bench, and during the day is well-served by its
> skylight, but
> > at night it's very dark. The neon lighting which has been
> serving the
> > classrooms and the shop was in two long banks of lights
> which ran
> > continuously over the three rooms; they had to be broken up
> in order to
> > allow for walls to be installed. I understand that there's
> a plan in place
> > to make the remaining lights light up; Jim even expressed a
> revolutionary
> > idea whereby the lights in a particular room would be
> controlled by a switch
> > *in that room* so that the people occupying the room could
> control their
> > need for artifical light.
> > The power rail above the table in the shop is still powered;
> the rail has
> > been removed from Church and Turing -- again, to make way
> for walls. Turing
> > is well-served by its own 20-amp circuit and a *lot* of
> outlets at various
> > convenient leves; Chuch, however, currently has no power of
> any kind. I
> > believe there is a plot afoot to power it, as well as to
> mount a projector
> > and projector screen back there.
> > If you'd like to be involved in getting power and lights
> where power and
> > lights should go, I refer you to Jim's missive on the topic
> in a previous
> > email thread, as well as to Jim, SuperQ and Miloh, who are
> all variously
> > working on this stuff.
> > Doors:
> > Doors are needed for the shop, and possibly for Turing and
> the Turing-Church
> > Intra-Classroom Door. The big doorway leading to the shop
> needs (ideally)
> > double swinging doors, of the type you find in restraunt
> kitchen and
> > hospital settings; the other doors should all (in the best
> of all possible
> > worlds) have portholes, or windows, or be made of glass,
> because nobody
> > wants to have their class or meeting constantly interrupted
> by people
> > opening the door to see if anybody's in there. SuperQ is at
> work on the
> > door problem; feel free to contact him.
> > Lots of people showed up this weekend to help out, more than
> I can name
> > here, but including a one-armed Bandit, a small army of
> purple-haired women,
> > and an stray 9-year-old girl who came in with her parents
> after having heard
> > Mitch on NPR and was put to work mudding. Kaya deserves a
> special shout-out
> > for the use of her truck for hauling everything; Danny for
> getting this
> > moving, and for paying for a lot of it; and Jurgen and Zack
> for basic
> > unflappability.
> > As I said, many more people were involved to one extent or
> another, and I
> > can think of at least one person whose name I've just flat
> forgotten; thank
> > you to all of you for having shown up and Just Done It when
> it needed to
> > Just Be Done.
> > There is more still to Just Do; if you want a task, just
> ask, and one shall
> > be given.
> > --S
> > --
> > Shannon Lee
> > (503) 539-3700
> >
> > "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from
> science."
> >
>
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> Shannon Lee
> (503) 539-3700
>
> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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