[Noisebridge-discuss] glass blowing / nocturnal hacking

[jim]

+1 on item #1. I'd like to see how glass blowing is done, 
maybe learn rudiments. 



On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 02:06 -0700, Tony Longshanks LeTigre wrote:
> Item #1
> 
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> I have a new friend who is, among other things, a glassblower — makes
> glass art & such. He's showing me how to do it. Apparently it's not
> too difficult, he does it in his basement w/out much in the way of
> setup. I told him he should come to NB b/c I don't know of anyone in
> the Noiseenclave who works in the medium of glass yet, & perhaps folks
> would be interested in learning? Or would this lead to the same
> partykilling safety concerns re: fire hazards & such that plagued the
> welding workshop? He has been doing it a while & has yet to burn the
> house down, evidently.
> 
> 
> Item #2 (complete nonsequitur)
> 
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> The Jargon has a neologism gweep, a verb for nighttime hacking. Full
> entry: 
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> gweep: /gweep/
>         
>         1. v. To hack, usually at night. At WPI, from 1975 onwards,
>         one who gweeped could often be found at the College Computing
>         Center punching cards or crashing the PDP-10 or, later, the
>         DEC-20. A correspondent who was there at the time opines that
>         the term was originally onomatopoetic, describing the keyclick
>         sound of the Datapoint terminals long connected to the PDP-10;
>         others allege that ‘gweep’ was the sound of the Datapoint's
>         bell (compare feep). The term has survived the demise of those
>         technologies, however, and was still alive in early 1999. “I'm
>         going to go gweep for a while. See you in the morning.” “I
>         gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week.”
>         
>         2. n. One who habitually gweeps in sense 1; a hacker. “He's a
>         hard-core gweep, mumbles code in his sleep.” Around 1979 this
>         was considered derogatory and not used in self-reference; it
>         has since been proudly claimed in much the same way as geek.
>         
> I don't like gweep so much—it's a good word, but it should mean
> something else. I propose nack (verb)—simple contraction of night +
> hack—for latenight hacking. Or nhack, where the h is silent. When I
> first discovered NB last year, it was the fact it was always open that
> thrilled me most—lifelong night owl/moon tiger/star
> dragon/quasivampire that I am. I'm very glad that threats of limited
> hours made on this list in dark days past never took hold: I for one
> have nights when a 2am hack is just what the soul needs. 
> 
> 
> Nhackers Unite! Someone a while back suggested a mailing list for the
> latenighters, I think....here's a little image to go with it, if that
> idea comes to fruition.
> http://zine.noisebridge.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/art_nbatnight.jpg
> 
> 
> K gotta run...comin' up on midnight...time for lunch!
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> --Løng$h at nk$
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