[Noisebridge-discuss] Upstairs door latch mechanism?

[Christopher Maujean]

I don't believe living situation should come into it at all. I make over
100k/year, have been software, hardware, and life hacking since I was 8
(that is more than 30 years). I have been homeless in the past, and
currently live in an sro. I think the truly important measure here is
ability/willingness to hack.

--Christopher

On Feb 10, 2012 4:05 PM, "rachel lyra hospodar" <rachelyra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Right, and I am decidedly /not/ a big guy. Imagine me trying to have
> > that conversation, but on the street outside the gate. I don't think it
> > would have gone well.
>
> I've done this, at 3am. someone sort of followed me there from a party
> (incidentally one where they had to eject one of our homeless residents
> for drunkenness).  I'm a smallish female, although i usually wear baggy
> clothes and boots.  It wasn't fun but it worked out ok.  I'm pretty
> assertive though.
>
> Since our constituency of preferred users includes many people who would
> be uncomfortable with this type of confrontation, we probably want to
> help deal with that!  I think that the more complicated it looks to get
> in, the easier it would be to tell a person trying to follow you in that
> they are not authorized for entry.  By creating a ridiculous rube
> goldberg of Entry we can create a Flying Spaghetti Monster type
> authority to appeal to when denying someone entry.  THE SCIENCE-DEITIES
> OF ENTRY DENY YOU! I AM BUT THEIR HUMBLE SERVANT!
>
> R.
>
> On 2/10/2012 2:34 PM, David Estes wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com
> > <mailto:shannon at scatter.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I'm a big guy, I speak in an authoritative tone, and he was
> >     extremely deferential in exactly the way you'd expect from someone
> >     meek unexpectedly encountering an authority figure, and I still
> >     found the whole thing extremely awkward.  Even though there wasn't
> >     any "unpleasantness," in the sense that nobody yelled or was
> >     confrontational, it was still extremely socially awkward, put me in
> >     a position of uncomfortable power distance, and was also very time
> >     consuming -- I think it was a ten or fifteen minute conversation.
> >
> >
> > Right, and I am decidedly /not/ a big guy. Imagine me trying to have
> > that conversation, but on the street outside the gate. I don't think it
> > would have gone well.
> >
> >
> >
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