Hey hey yeh yeH
We're meeting Sunday at 4pm!
I'll be late! :[ :[ I have an unexpected job interview (w00t!) at 3pm. BUT,
you should arrive on time and mingle and merrymake as this event will
surely result in your making connections you never thought imaginable, and
your attendance at future meetups galore!
And always remember...
"Be what you would seem to be--or if you'd like it put more simply: Never
imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others
that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had
been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." --Lewis Carroll
Hello all!
We have a number of people who have signed up to help with Bike Smut, from
my sound system-moving posse to donations people, aphrodesiacal ice
creamateurs to watchful eyes.
If you have not yet expressed explicit interest in helping, now is the
time! Some time between 6 and 7pm is also the time, as my posse and I will
be arriving with sound system.
Please gchat/email me and I'll give you my DIGITS!
If we pay people for beer, if we buy burritos then why is it wrong to pay someone to clean?
Could we pay for a small family owned immigrant cleaning business to clean the common room and the space ?
I do not see sudo room getting into a cleaning skill set in the near future and that is ok
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Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy(a)snowyla.com
Greetings Hackians!
Tomorrow night will be the first screening of sexually charged movies at
Sudo Room and last time we will ever screen Bike Smut 6: Turning Trixxx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuDxS3mRc7M
Its the ULTIMATE screening!
Besides providing a forum for a variety of artists to share their thoughts
on human-powered transportation and sex-positive culture we will may also
be:
* watching a burlesque performance depicting how the bicycle liberated
women's fashion
* defining obscenity within the community
* meeting / flirting with other exciting minds
* playing the PSI game, behold the hilarious consensual action
* enjoying delicious malted beverages for extra reasonable donation
* winning $300 dollars worth of prizes from excellent sponsors (info below)
* supporting Sudo Room, because half of the door will stay with this
excellent space!
This has the potential to be a great fundraiser, but one person can't do it
all, but there are a few things you can do:
VOLUNTEER - email vicki <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com>, and let her know when you
are available. (8pm is best but we work it out)
* help greet at the door
* serve delicious beverages
* monitor the space to keep Sudo Room excellent and not burnt down
* assist me and Vicki as we clean up afterward
* host an afterparty (helps to get people out!)
EDUCATE - besides the endless possibilities of Sudo Room, we are partnering
with other great organizations
* Fucking Sculptures local handcrafted glass sex toys
http://fuckingsculptures.com/
* Crash Pad Series provides some of the best queer porn on Earth
http://crashpadseries.com/queer-porn/2012/we-love-bike-smut/
* Sex Worker Fest helps address the stigma of the worlds oldest profession
https://www.facebook.com/sexworkerfest
* Oakland gallery owner, Eli Reyes was the victim of horrifying road rage
http://bikesmut.tumblr.com/post/50589635617/fuckingsculptures-signal-boost-…
PROMOTE - geeks are not known for their social graces, consider this a
great time to practice! You dont want to watch porn alone, do you?
* use FaceBook! https://www.facebook.com/events/151978064981763/
*
http://bikeporntour.blogspot.com/2013/05/turning-our-final-trixxx-in-oaklan…
Friday, May 17
Sudo Room
2141 Broadway
doors at 8:22, starts at 9:07
$5-10 donation, no one turned away
adults only and you should all *dress fabulous! *
Even if you can't volunteer I hope you are able to attend. I think there
will be a number of people who have never been to this place before; it
will be grand to have engaging minds on hand to explain how cool Sudo Room
is!
con fuerte,
rev
--
7 years of sex-positive, human-powered porno
________Hop on The Porny Express________
----------------------- Bike Smut ------------------------
Ryan and Jenny are excellent! We went biking and found more places for sudo
room's future decision-making!
http://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/
Please add more reports (choose at least one):
(a) tweet the address and details (e.g. a phone number) @sudoroom
(i) You can also set up twitter to post via text message to 40404 if you
don't have a data plan with your phone--ask me for details! ;)
(b) send an email with the same info to info(a)sudoroom.org
(c) use the web form https://hackerspaces.crowdmap.com/reports/submit
(d) download a mobile app (though the new android app crashed for me >.<)
You can also help by:
(a) Calling some of the existing listings, coordinate by replying to this
message!
(b) Offering to review old listings that might still be available!
(c) Trolling Craigslist and other websites with spaces for rent / lease.
(d) Contribute to this spreadsheet Romy set up:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amu8QvJOCyfkdFRkMnFGblJ3MzZDNF…
(e) Organize another bike-about to find more locations!
The crowdmap platform released a new version of their software today, but
we can use the "classic" mode likely through 2013, with options to migrate
and such before then.
I have backups just in case, and we can back more data up as we add to it.
// Matt
Do you eat produce? Then you're already eating insects
http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInfor…
excerpt: "RAISINS, GOLDEN Insects and insect eggs
(AOAC 969.42 & MPM-V76) 10 or more whole or equivalent insects and 35
Drosophila eggs per 8 oz."
Pork is verboten for Jews and Muslims because of their scripture, not
because we haven't found a way to force them to eat it. Eating pork is
not as resource friendly as eating insects.
I don't eat meat, that doesn't make meat dirt to me.
No one will be forced to eat insects by any force other than meat
getting expensive.
Your categories beg the question, are insects dirt? I say dirt is dirt,
food is food, paper is paper, and poop is poop. If you're living in the
right area you will eat people, fish, insects, or diet coke. If insects
produce nutritious food at a decent price, why not? Seriously!
The types of insects being considered for food (caterpillars and
mealworms specifically) do not eat sewage, btw. If you know of any
insects that somehow eat sewage and become edible food, let me know
because I've never heard of that.
I've heard of plants using processed cow dung as fertilizer though, and
I'm ok with eating it, are you?
If you put aside the false equivalences of your 4 categories, can you
still make a case against insects as food?
> -G. (creative commons; non-commercial use, with attribution)
you objected to the list being archived with your name, how would you
like to be cited if your article is republished elsewhere?
A friend of mine, Caitlyn, is riding and writing across the US this summer.
Amongst other things, she offers to deliver letters along her route
in-person! Pretty cool.
She is running an indiegogo campaign to raise funds for her journey and any
proceeds exceeding her goal go to Biketopia, a community bikeworkshop in
south Berkeley that I am part of. Support her here:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bike-odyssey-riding-and-writing-across-th…
Make a great day,
Morten
I can't remember exactly from last week, but maybe you brought this up,
Marc?
I think this is a really great idea, which could bring in revenue (from the
kits), more revenue (from workshops focusing on building the kits, and not
necessarily for adults [sudo-kids?]), and members (from people who enjoy
the workshops thoroughly).
Though it is currently being done: If I remember correctly, I think people
in the community - Mitch Altman? - do workshops like this. And though an
internet "competitor" exists - Maker Shed's kits (http://www.makershed.com/)
- and I haven't yet done a significant amount of research about the kind of
kits that they offer and so forth, I think it'd be really neat to purchase
the parts, design really fun, age-appropriate packaging, sell the kits at
some kind of minimal markup online, then above and beyond that have
donation-suggested workshops where we guide people through the process of
assembling whatever the kit is. Even if other hackerspaces /
non-hackerspace entities / for-profit corporations are doing a similar
concept, we'll have people interested who are geographically proximate to
Sudoroom.
Also, we have ideas: the lock picking class brought in great PR (in my
opinion), and I'm guessing that the listserv would have a bunch of great
ideas that are quirky, exciting, feasible, etc.
I've always wanted to build a bunch of modular synthesizer modules, but
that's kind of a fringe / eccentric interest.
It'd be great to use Sudo-fund for this discussion, if people are
interested.
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Thomas Riley York (杨德民) 510.926.0510
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyyork
