Enemy of Entropy

TechShop, Photography Advice, Postsingular, NoDryClean, and Verizon FIOS Danger

7 November 2007, 2:52 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Art, Geekery, Links, News, Reading.


Dis­parate thoughts from a very low energy day. In fact, it was so low-​​energy that I thought I posted this entry last night, and never did.

I has a fever. Do Not Want. Blah. Can’t brain. Short atten­tion span means you just get links and such. Good links, but links.

Have you heard of TechShop? They describe them­selves as TechShop is a fully-​​equipped open-​​access work­shop and cre­ative envi­ron­ment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace. It is like a health club with tools and equip­ment instead of exer­cise equipment…or a Kinko’s for geeks.

I’d heard of them before, but look­ing at some pho­tos of just a lit­tle of the equip­ment makes me really, really want to see what Sam, Katie, and some of you other cre­ative local geeks would do there. They’re open­ing loca­tions in some new states, but Atlanta isn’t on the list. Yet. Tell them you want a TechShop here! Or maybe one of you wants to actu­ally open one?

Every­thing Is Sub­ject and Kick­ing Off Your Shoes is the first of a series of arti­cles for pho­tog­ra­phers by Ben Lif­son. Even I even learned a few things, and I’m just a point-​​and-​​shoot girl.

For mah man: Rudy Rucker’s lat­est novel, Postsin­gu­lar, is avail­able for down­load on his web site. You can buy it, of course, but you don’t have to unless you want a printed copy (Ama­zon is cheaper than print­ing out the whole thing your­self). Rucker calls it psipunk.

Did you know that there’s a much safer alter­na­tive to dry-​​cleaning? There is, and NoDryClean will help you find a place near you that does it. There aren’t many of them in metro Atlanta yet, but thank­fully we sel­dom have need for it.

If you live in an area served by Ver­i­zon, you might want to think twice before allow­ing that com­pany or its con­trac­tors to install any­thing for you. FIOS means Fire Is Our Spe­cialty, accord­ing to Net­work World edi­tor Paul McNa­mara.

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  1. avatar Hope. 8 November 2007, 5:49 pm

    I’ll have to come back to this post when I have the time and energy to check out some of those links :)

 

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