Yeesh. Sorry to hear about your loss. I was laid off back in 2007 and it wasn't very fun. I hope that this gives you an opportunity to get into something new that you will truly love.
Chicago Public Library has computers that you can use to check email and stuff...
We will plan on going ahead as usual.
~Kyle
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Mike McGonagle mjmogo@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
Well that sucks. I am sure there free wifi around Chicago, I am a
regular
user of open wifi nodes, share my own wifi, and encourage others to do
the
same.
Unfortunately, I have never been able to get my laptop to work with the WIFI. It is one of the last titanium shelled ones, and the reason they stopped making them is because the metal case shielded the signal. I am sure that I will be able to find a connection, just not one every day.
So, please let's proceed with this. The time off will actually help me to focus on getting some stuff done.
Unfortunately, I'll bet we'll be hearing similar stories from a lot of people these days.
Yeah, all the stories I have read in the last month or so, is that we shouldn't expect things to get better UNTIL they get worse. I can't imagine that any President who comes into a mess like this would be able to turn things around that quickly.
I am not quite certain, but this might be a blessing in disguise. Over the past 8 years, I have become fairly political, and as such, have been focusing on the BAD parts of our government... I submitted an application today, to hopefully work on at least the transition team, but it would be nice as well to turn it into a real job. It would be nice to get out of printing, it is one of the more depressed markets, but that is largely due to technology and such...
Mike
.hc
On Nov 11, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote:
Well, sorry about this, but I am not quite certain exactly how I might stay in contact with everyone, as I just lost my job, and I don't have a connection at home.
Please, lets try to continue with planning this, as I know that the space will still be available, but I am not quite certain how soon I might be able to help in planning.
Mike
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Kyle Klipowicz kyleklip@gmail.com wrote:
The flyer looks great, Mike!
I think that building slowly is a good idea, just to keep things manageable.
Looking forward to it!
~Kyle
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Mike McGonagle mjmogo@gmail.com
wrote:
Ok, last night I just assumed that we are going to shoot for December 14th, and I put together a flyer with all the pertinent information (short of the names of people being there)...
Let me know if you think this will work for you, or do we need another date?
Also, as this is the first event, should we open it to a wider audience? Or should we build slowly?
Mike
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Mike McGonagle mjmogo@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you, Chris. This will be very helpful. I have already contacted two groups who might have similar interests, they are not directly involved with Pd, but they do have people who I think would want to see what others are doing.
Mike
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:43 PM, chris clepper cgclepper@gmail.com wrote: > > There have been Pd user groups in Chicago in the past. One used to > meet at > Deadtech, but I think Rob Ray is currently at RPI. Before that
there
> was a > Max user group that also encompassed Pd and SuperCollider which I > helped > start out many years ago ('98 or so). > > You may want to contact the Chicago New Media google group: > > >
http://groups.google.com/group/Chicago-new-media?lnk=srg&ie=UTF-8&oe...
> > Also, look up Drew Browning at UIC and Robb Drinkwater at SAIC who
are
> into > such things. Paul Hertz is up at Northwestern, and there might be > someone > at U of Chicago too. > > >
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