Entries from August 2005

poly bags for defiance, ohio cds

August 30th, 2005 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

The poly bags that we use for Defiance, Ohio Share What Ya’ Got CDs are product ID SCDGF6 from Bags Unlimited.


Finding swimming quarries using google maps + satellite photos!

August 29th, 2005 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

Google Maps – s. walnut and i-37, bloomington, in This photo is of the beach quarry. Chris w/ Shit In The Face gave me this idea. He also mentioned using more advanced GIS mapping technologies and using thermal data to try to identify quarries.


voting, again

August 27th, 2005 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

When Brian was through on his Dance of Dogs puppet tour, he brought the newest issue of our friend Kane’s zine that had an article giving an anarchist/anti-authoritarian perspective on voting (and punk rock bands/figures supporting voting), making the familiar and mostly sound arguments about the problems inherent in voting and how utterly disappointing the [...]


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August 17th, 2005 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

When I used to be in college, and would drive, drive the six or so hours back to the town where I grew up and maybe the first few times that I made the trip, it was exciting because I fealt adult, I felt mobile. I never really had a car when I was a [...]


“in some ways i think mobility makes all the difference”

August 15th, 2005 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

I wrote the following to a friend recently: In the last e-mail that you sent me, you wrote > in some ways i think mobility makes all the difference. with regards to youth in Detroit dealing with the intensity of being in a close-knit but somewhat marginalized community. You mentioned joy-ridingas an example of youth [...]


howto: Laptop IP Switching in Win98

August 14th, 2005 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

Laptop IP Switching: “Configuring your Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP laptop for use at multiple sites If you take your Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, or XP laptop between two separate networks that have different network settings, you can choose which settings to use at startup by selecting a hardware profile for the specific network. Below are the [...]


GallaryRemoteAlbum MediaWiki extension

August 14th, 2005 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

I wrote an extension for mediawiki to integrate it with Gallery2. You can download it here. From the source code documentation: * This is a WikiMedia extension that I wrote because I wanted to be able * to include multiple thumbnails from a Gallery2 gallery (for more info * on the software, see http://gallery.sf.net) running [...]


list: bloomington publications with events calendars

August 12th, 2005 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

good for promoting shows/other events Bloomington Alternative, editor@BloomingtonAlternative.com The Scene (supplement to the Herald-Times, weekly), getout@heraldt.com, 331-4349 Bloomington’s Cultureweek (monthly), editor@cultureweek.com, 334-7743 The Ryder (monthly), theryder@theryder.com, 339-2002. Indiana Daily Student (weekly), arts@idsnews.com WFHB, calendars@wfhb.org WIUS, manager@wius.org WFIU Websites letsgo.terrorware.com defianceohio.terrorware.com bloomingmusic.net pix.hijinx.nu Mailing lists indiana_shows-fvrec.com@che.dreamhost.com bloomingtonmusic@yahoogroups.com


lost and found

August 10th, 2005 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

others have: joe @ ducks in a stack house – desk, speakers, stereo receiver, futon mattress, futon frame, dsl modem, wireless router sparky @ ducks in a stack house – moosewood cookbook homewood – nalgene bottle i have: octavia butler collection (mary) “tracker” (jrd)


Boxcar Computer TODO

August 10th, 2005 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

Backup – see “Boxcar Computer Backups” post for more info Passwords – Get list from Ali of all passwords – Install software to encrypt this list Inventory improvements – Inventory list printout (by Jan. 2006) – Discounted book printout (by Feb. 2006) Integrate Retail ICE POS and inventory (this is a long shot and not [...]


TODO

I've made a calendar of Chicago events I think are interesting. You can view the calendar here or load the ical in your calendar application.

DIY Chicago and the Chicago Radicalendar have a more comprehensive list of things going on.

C.R.E.A.M.

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