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:
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> 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.

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> 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

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> On Nov 11, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Kyle Klipowicz <kyleklip@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>> 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=utf-8&pli=1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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>>>>> we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
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we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
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