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Anyone?
Myself and a couple of the other bakers have been
talking
and
it might be nice to have a Bay Area Halfcon. Remove the
winter blahs from our collective craws, get some song,
food
and dance on, and maybe you might think about joining
us.
When: Saturday~January 30th~ 2010
Where:
~blissmiss'~
Why: Because we are bakers and we can
Time: 10:00am-(US)
Happy Hour-(UK)
Ideas for afterwards, if so motivated? Mt. Diablo if
weather is good is a thought. I've not been there
yet. Bring binoculars if so.
N.A.W.C.H.
N_2eA_2eW_2eC_2eH_2..._20coast_20halfcon)
The previous one [csea, Jan 07 2010]
Inception
http://www.halfbake...dd_20one#1262836809
History [csea, Jan 12 2010]
(?) Not quite live photos
http://6s4klaatu.mu...ay_in_San_Francisco
More photos being uploaded, be sure to check back. [Klaatu, Jan 30 2010]
Laptop upgrade ("Here, hold my beer, watch this!")
Pop-up_20Sprinkler_...d_20Laptop_20Camera
[normzone, Jan 30 2010]
Where Halfbaker Types Come to Actually Make Their Stuff
http://techshop.ws/
They have social events as well and would probably love to host something like this. [doctorremulac3, Jun 21 2010]
[link]
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Oh, and [hob]? Would like to meet you again, too. |
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Hmmm.... let me talk to my cruise director to see if I can book a suitable ride (I think the Norwegian Pearl is otherwise engaged). If nothing is available I might see if I can hitch a ride with 2 fries. (I still think he's crazy, but in a good way) |
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The food and song part sounds very tempting, but take my word for it, you don't want to see me dance. I did enjoy the potato latkes at Delancey Street, but my palate is open to suggestion. |
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I think my house could be a meet up place, if you
would like. Not for certain yet. Have the place to
myself the last two weeks of the month, I think. I
have some patios, and some views. |
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So I take it you're not in an area that's in danger of being "reclaimed" by the sea as global warming makes the oceans rise? |
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Mt.Diablo, sort of. High enough to be safe from most
of the elements. We seem to be above the fog even,
some days. The hawks are now at eye level, let's just
put it that way. |
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Get me the air fare and I'll be there. With bells on. |
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I'll start taking flying lessons. |
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I'll stow away in [Jinbish]'s washbag |
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oh [bliss] I thought you were still in CT!! I'd love to come out there, but not this time...(cries in my sleeve..) |
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Come one, come all. We could meet at a pub and then
come here for a transatlantic, or pacific, or whatever
conference call. I'll have a webcam by then. With the
time difference, the Londoners' will be getting up, by
the time we are going nighty-night. |
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This might actually be possible for me if Amtrak's schedules work out. Are we looking at a weekend? |
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is this a local's spelling btw? |
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yep - like old times my blissy bessy mate! |
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so... what is the weather like, usually, there, soon..? |
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Sounds like you guys will have a blast blissmiss and I soooo wish I could, but unless something changes drastically in the near future I don't think I will be able to make it to this halfcon.
<mutters, "not sure I *could* do that drive again Canuck" under breath>
hmmmmm, I wonder how many air-miles we've got saved. |
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The weather is mild, not too cold, not too warm.
Flowers are blooming, and the breeze is wonderful.
At least I think it is. |
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2 fries, It would not be a halfcon without you and
Canuck. gisho, it could be a weekend, or whatever is
best for the rest. |
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//Have the place to myself the last two weeks of the month, I think. I have some patios, and some views.// |
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Just this month? You are kind to offer! I'll be back in the Bay area next week, so anytime after that is OK by me. I'll be teaching M/W starting Jan 20th, all else is flexible. |
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Mt Diablo = Walnut Creek(ish?) Accessible via BART for those coming in to OAK/SFO ? Someday we'll have to do one in sight of Mt. Baker, WA .(I've had the pleasure of seeing the mountain from the water several times this week!) |
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I've recently learned a bit about SKYPE teleconferencing, don't yet know if we could use it to broadcast / record the HB debauchery... |
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Yup, walnut creekish, and very BART. I have been
SKYPED myself as well. That would be a fun
experiment, if we could finagle that with other
bakers. |
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*counts on fingers* That would be the last weekend
of the month, or the second-to-last.. are you
thinking sooner, or later? |
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Last works for me...if everyone else is good. But
then...next to last works for me too. I wonder if jutta
would like to come, if she would have a preference? |
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If it's on the 30th or 31st, and you make it a brunch, I'll bring the croissants. |
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Yum...Brunch would be great. |
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Suits me. Slight preference for Sat the 30th. What shall I bring? |
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hah, the londoner's turn to be jealous - work on the skype thing! |
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butter and yep, we shall work on the skype thing
here. Haven't bought my webcam yet, but if everyone
over there gets their skype ready, someone surely will
have one here, by then. (if we all agree that is
something we want to do, naturally.) |
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I can do Skype. Californian brunch-time should be UK evening, I think... |
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I think so too. So you guys can be pissy, and messy,
and happy hour-ish, and we will be proper and
breakfast cool. Just kidding, just kidding. |
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//can be pissy, and messy, and happy hour-ish// |
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For our Northern Neighbors: |
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f.y.i. I just returned from Bellingham, WA to OAK, on Allegiant Air for $18.88 USD (plus a bunch of charges for tax, baggage, reserved seat, advance boarding, etc, total more like $80.) This was because I was able to fly on a Monday. |
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Probably cheaper then driving! |
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Get outta here!!! Really??? |
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Airlines are hard up for customers nowadays. I'm going back in Feb. More like $100 each way. YMMV. |
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Vancouver Winter Olympics are Feb 12-28; prices for flights are bound to go up around these dates. |
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Then it's Saturday, the last Saturday of January, 2010.
We could all meet at the Walnut Creek BART
commuter hub, if we're eating here. Or earlier if
meeting for a brunch in the city. My house is free,
should I say more? |
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I so wish that I could come to this one bliss! As I,we wish that you could come to our Englandbakes. |
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Thanks skinny. Englandbakes has a really cool sound
to it. (pop group perhaps?) |
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I've skyped. We'll see if we can pull this off. |
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"We built this city...we built this city on rock and
roll..." Is that how it goes? |
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[blissmiss], please contact me via my profile page to discuss wherewithal for Skyping. |
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Your wish is my command, oh great one. |
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[blissmis] has cable internet, so we should be able to get something working. Does anyone have experience with "Mikogo" or "Yugma" (teleconference add-ons for Skype?) |
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The silence you hear is me... |
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[csea] you could set up a live event on vokle.com. |
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[ttdm] Thanks, Vokle looks useful for topical production, but looks a bit outside of the scope of our halfbaking interaction (?) |
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I'm not really prepared to set up an event, was just hoping for some means of connecting with remote halfbakers a few at a time. Any other ideas welcome... |
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Empty tin cans and string might do the trick. |
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[bliss] You've got mail. I'll be coming down a bit early.
I had been planning a trip to the Bay Area and this
just gave me the incentive to make it so. Sounds like
a hoot. |
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I hope [2fries] shows up so I can give him back his
"funny money" that nobody will take here. |
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Excellent. There's a baker from Jamaica who might be
able to get here as well. |
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Hey! I just realized I had been offline for a long time. Looks like I picked a good time to look here again. I'm in SF and I should be able to go to this. |
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Yipee. How close to Danville are you? Walnut Creek? |
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I'm wondering if jutta has purchased the stuff to
make the croissants yet? Cause I'm sure she is making
them by hand. |
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So if this is brunch-ish, what kind of time range are we talking about? On a weekend, the whole day often seems like brunch to me. This Saturday though, I probably can't stay past early afternoon. |
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For location details etc., [bliss] could you email me - click the first of my two website links & then "contact info" - thanks. |
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11am ish, if that is doable for everyone else. I
know it's early in the day. We could do a noonish
and just have a shorter brunch, and just longer for
those who want to stick around and do
something. The weather, they say, is starting to
look better. |
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I hope the local bakers can be vocal about things
to do. I've just moved here. I do know Mt. Diablo
is supposed to be nice, and we can leave our cars
here and all take one or two cars there. It's a short
distance, less than 10 miles, as far as I know. I am
on Diablo Road, so it can't be too far. |
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Can someone from San Fancisco suggest a good way to get from the Emryville Amtrak station to the meeting place? (My email is in my profile.) |
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[blissmiss], why not pick a public place where we can meet near your place, and have an opportunity to forcibly eject any impostors, socially reprehensible ... (oh, never mind, I guess any baker reading this is likely to be OK!) |
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This way, you wouldn't have to post your residence, and we could still carpool to wherever. |
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[gisho], I could possibly give you a ride from Emeryville, as it's on my way. |
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It looks to me like there will be 2 or 3 cars
coming
up the hillside. Klaatu is coming the day before
and
camping out so he doesn't count in the count.
That
leaves gisho with you, csea, in the car we will
call
half-baker1, jutta in halfbaker2, and hob in
halfbaker3. Looks like just 3 cars up in the drive
and that will be okay. We can meet at the
Country
Club Entrance, that way people will think I'm
rich
and have connections. No for real, it is the last
sort
of big landmark-ish place. |
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So that looks good, and findable, the Diablo
Country Club. Just don't go inside and try and
sit down. They'll throw us out. There's a place
to park there for a spell and wait for others. |
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It's very easy to find on most maps, I think too. |
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If they'd just quit giving my loto 6-49 winnings to other people...I'd charter a bus gisho. |
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Noon's way too late for me, sorry - that's when I'll have to leave. |
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I was hoping for something like that, yeah. 10:30? Mt Diablo is nice and would make a great outdoor picnic venue, just not necessarily on a rainy January morning. |
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10:30 is perfect, and you can drive up and park at the
house and stay dry. I'll email you the address, if you'd
like. |
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Can someone send out the Skype details for this? |
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Email away. (To bakesperson@gmail.com - bakesperson@halfbakery.com is currently out of service.)
I'll bring Skype (account "bakesperson"; wait til 10:30 on 1/30/2010 to try it, though). |
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Sounds good - & I'm hitching a ride with [jutta] so that's one less car. (I was tempted to get a Zipcar and bring along a giant dog, but in this weather it's unlikely that the car would survive carrying the mud-beast) |
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Oh yeah, there is one catch, I have the worlds
badest
bad boy dog here, too. He is the life of the party,
and
he gets drunk and has to be put to bed every
time. He's a Corgy sort of breed, with some
German
Shepard thrown in. Small, mean and really, really,
bad. |
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And I also have a cute, endearing, lovely, little
Bechon, too. They are other people's pooches, I'm
really more of a claire the cat person. But she
decided to stay back in Connecticut. |
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Looks better. I dunno. It's a temporary arrangement.
She and I. |
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A Corgi Shepherd? Wow, this I have to see. |
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//A Corgi Shepherd//
Corgis were bred to herd cattle, so you get the best of both breeds. |
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I don't know if I'll be able to skype to the real thing, but last night I dreamed I was online with all of you. |
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Of course, the night before that I dreamed I was on the run from the law on horseback. There's probably some correlation there. |
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What would stop you from being with us Saturday, via
Skype? Jail time? |
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No charges on the books for this boy. Honor and diplomacy works wonders ;-) |
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<Sigh> I'll have to give this one a pass as well. Any chance of a cheap boat ride home doesn't happen for another week. Airlines either want ridiculous amounts of money or they want to fly me all over western North America for 8 hours before arrival. And my reliable old pickup isn't so reliable any more. I was so disappointed I didn't even check with Greyhound or Amtrak. |
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So ,to all who can make it, have fun, drive safe, take lots of photos, and perhaps take a moment to raise your glasses toward the Great White North. (feel free to include that other guy who's a little south of North - hi 21Q!) |
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<note to csea - thanks for the tip about Allegiant, but Saturday seems to be a 4-letter word to them> |
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<note to Klaatu - had I been able to attend I was all set to bring along some of those utterly Canadian delicacies you miss so much, but they'll have to wait until next time, my friend> |
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Hopefully I will hear from my home owner between
now and tonight. If I don't, we may need to relocate.
If they had to leave Baja earlier than planned, they'll
be back sooner than I thought, and there would be
too many cooks in the kitchen, if you get my drift. |
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We could certainly still brunch in beautiful Danville. |
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Hello everybody.. I will not be in attendance but
wish everybody a happy halfcon. I will be in
Vancouver this weekend, though. Canuck, if you
want to go for a pint or 2, give me a shout! |
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That was great fun, if a little digital ;-) |
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No captions yet, but still uploading more pictures.
You should be able to figure out the players from
the
previous HalfCons. [linky-linky] |
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('Bakers wishing copies of pictures may request at
e-
mail in profile. Those wishing their pictures
deleted
may send cash directly to me.) |
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Update 22:18 Zulu - City of Danville wi-fi seems to
be having issues with uploads. I'll try to post more
photos later. |
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Perfect day, great company, homemade baked goods,
and a lot of hawks. I just don't think a half-con could
be nicer. But it's my first. I still wanna meet up with
you, and the others across the pond. |
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I second that. I've been to London once, fun town indeed. |
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Idea spawned by today's halfcon (linky). |
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What a great morning. Thanks everyone. And thanks [Klaatu] for capturing it. (Those pictures remind me: I really need to schedule the surgery to detach my hand from my forehead.) |
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NICE hawk silhouette, [Klaatu]. Having burned a thousand frames of 35mm or more on such efforts in the pre-digital days, I know how many culls one gets doing that. |
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Your photographic specialty of getting the shot just as people put food in their mouths and close their eyes is a tough niche market to make money in, though ;-) |
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Blissmiss ... I've experienced some nice days in January in the SF Bay area, but this one was truly spectacular. |
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Many thanks to all for hosting, delicious food, and agreeable company! I hope to see you and others again at the next SF HB-con. |
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It was good to meet y'all (or meet again.) Thanks for putting up with us, blissmiss! |
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Would it be rude to ask for some names-to-faces annotation on those [Klaatu] pictures? My first thoughts on seeing them were "What a beautiful day!" My second thoughts, "Now, *that* must be [normzone] ... or is it?" and so on. |
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Contemplating and eating food in picture #17, L. to R. are [gisho] and [jutta]. |
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In picture #13, [blissmiss] is holding a camera, and the two guys doing synchronized coffee drinking L. to R. are me and [csea]. |
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[Klaatu] took all the pictures and isn't in any of them, but someone got one of him I'm sure. |
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[normzone] was a little invisible voice inside [jutta]'s laptop. |
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Sorry to have missed it - I couldn't get to my computer to
Skype into it at the right time. |
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Ditto what [hippo] said. I tried, later on, to contact the bakesperson through Skype but to no avail. Glad you guys had fun. |
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I would so liked to have seen you guys again, and to have met you in person blissmiss. It looks like you couldn't have picked a better day for it.
<makes mental note to find out what skype is> |
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Now I'm really sorry I couldn't make it. It looks like everyone played nice and didn't get rowdy. (or are those photos coming later?) Perhaps with a bit more notice I'll be able to attend a future meet-up? |
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<I was going to suggest the caption for the box of yummy-looking croissants should be "Mmmm, flaky!" but then I realized that could also be applied to any shot of the group. I'M KIDDING! : D > |
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Sorry, iron_horse, this weekend became filled with family obligations. |
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that's OK Canuck.. if you ever get out to the kootenays then do drop in. |
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Wow Klaatu, having time now to really look at the
photos you took, wow, you did some masterful work.
Photo #11 of the hawk, when you zoom in, that shot
could be a poster for some sort of wildlife magazine
or something. Gorgeous. Thank you for capturing
that, forever. |
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//Wow Klaatu, having time now to really look at the
photos you took, wow, you did some masterful
work.// |
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I would **LOVE** to take credit for the hawk pictures,
but [hob] took all of those with my telephoto lens.
The one picture that I tried was so shaky as to be a
total blur. Credit where credit is due, eh? |
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So sorry, I was so busy looking at the hawks I didn't
see who had a camera in their hand. I just saw who
linked them. |
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Well goes to show, hob can not only draw well, he
does great wildlife photography too. Not to mention
his sweet demeanor. Your's too, Klaatuey. |
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Did anyone else take photos? I had a pocket camera along, but didn't manage to take any pix. |
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I put some up on flickr, I think. There ya go, mate. A
link just for you. |
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I wasn't gonna say anything because I wasn't totally sure if that bird picture was one of the ones I took, but I guess so - that was just a really lucky shot - thanks [Klaatu] for letting me use your camera! |
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I posted a link to the Techshop which is a chain of inventor's work shops here on the left coast that allow access to cnc milling machines, vacuum formers, injection molders, laser engravers etc etc etc. |
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I go to the one in Menlo Park but a SF location is opening up. I would suggest there's not a single solitary Halfbaker that wouldn't love this place. |
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There's people from all walks of life there building robots, movie special effect props, various inventions, lots of electronic stuff etc. |
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They have special events all the time and it's an incredibly creative environment. I'm guessing they'd love to host some kind of Halfbaker's weekend. |
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At first glimmer, I thought spam. But I checked the for-said link and surely enough, that is the most
incredible place I think I have ever seen. And I would
go and make something, a few things, many things,
in a heartbeat. |
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// I'm guessing they'd love to host some kind of Halfbaker's weekend. |
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They probably have tables that you could use if you showed up there, same as anyone else, but I wouldn't expect or want them to go beyond that. |
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The crafts/maker movement in the San Francisco Bay Area is much, much bigger than the halfbakery audience.
Between the Tech Shop, the Crucible, the Maker Faire, the Burning Man participants, the various hacker spaces, and specific material-related places like the BAGI and the SFCB there are tens, if not hundreds, of meetings and classes every month that host people with weird ideas, interesting skills, and quixotic temperaments, each of which individually is larger (and likely a lot more productive) than a halfbakery meet-up, which generally tends to be about three to four introverts who awkwardly make conversation for about two hours, most of which seemed to center around ornithology. |
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