[Noisebridge-discuss] [intellectual claptrap] Toward a theory of utilization

[Naomi Most]

Hey Tony,

I'd be glad to help with the Excel -> MySQL conversions and some of
the backend stuff.  I'm not much of a front-end coder, but many people
at Noisebridge can probably help with that piece.

Cheers,
Naomi



On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Tony Longshanks LeTigre
<anthonyletigre at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> This touches on an issue that is covered very well on a blog I found
>> recently: Veresapiens.
>> http://www.veresapiens.org/blog/category/thou-shalt-not-steal/
>
>
> Thanks for the link, I am going to read this.
>
>>
>> Surely you've seen cases where tenants were driven out and the
>> property was vacated, then vandalized -- an eyesore! And to what
>> benefit to anyone?
>
>
> Surely I have. To the financial benefit of the owner / developer / lender &
> anyone else that profits in a short-term way from the raised property value.
> & absolutely no one else.
>>
>>
>> ISTM that if property owners could contract more affordably with
>> occupants, the space could be maintained and they could get some
>> money. Maybe not the same controlled "market rate," but something
>> perhaps much lower; closer to a free market rate.
>
>
> Let's not hold our collective breath.....I just read (on Zillow or one of
> the other real estate sites) that property rates in SF are projected to
> increase a further 10% beyond their current astronomical level over the next
> year.
>
>>
>>
>> Such living contract could include such things tenant must keep the
>> place clean, deter vandals, mow the lawn, not party, etc. The occupant
>> would get a place to live out of the deal! If the red tape could be
>> mitigated, you could make a webapp out of that!
>
>
> This is what I need: to start thinking about ways to make money. I am no
> good with money, b/c I don't care about it at all, inherently, & don't think
> of providing for the future very well; I don't even promote my own projects
> that involve massive amounts of work & detail. Yet I need money sometimes,
> like everyone living in our society does, & some recognition wouldn't hurt,
> either.
>
>>
>> I don't have an answer or solution to homelessness and housing
>> problems.
>
>
> The weird, beautiful thing is that homelessness—which I initially
> experienced as grim & crushing, like death itself—turned out to be the
> solution to every other problem I'd been having, my whole
> not-being-able-to-make-it-work-for-myself-here-in-the-City struggle. I'm not
> advocating six months of living on the street for everyone, just reporting
> what happened to me & the miraculous transformation that occurred as a
> result. Over the past year & a half, for the first time in my adult life,
> I've been able to go where & do what I want, work on exactly the projects I
> most want to work on all the time, basically enjoy & feel fulfilled by my
> life for the first time....EVER. I know I've done some f****d up things & am
> no saint, either. I came from a pretty dark road & have a lot of healing to
> do, but for the first time that actually seems possible. This is what I'm
> exploring in this writing + database project of mine. (Where the quote that
> started this thread comes from.)
>
> Speaking of, if anyone reading this is good with MySQL, I could really use
> help with this big project I have. It involves converting a series of Excel
> spreadsheets into a customized db, w/ UI front-end of some kind. I
> downloaded MySQL for Mac OS X & have a couple book tutorials, but I'm a
> total n00b & not even w/ a programming background—too bad, 'cause I think I
> was "born to code."
>
> All for now,
>
>
> +11+
>
> Editor/co-creator
> ZiP MegaZine
> whose 3rd chapter & website are currently getting a major makeover btw.....
>
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