"[Noisebridge-discuss posted:

The Not-So-Great Glass Elevator / banning me"]Now, moving on to the elevator debacle. First of all, I never at any time
LIVED, nor intended to live, in the 1st floor elevator compartment of 2169
Mission. I pity the poor urchin who would consider that stuffy,
junk-filled cubicle a desirable, or even possible, living space. For a
couple weeks back in April/May of this year I was forced to store my
clothes & other stuff in that compartment for lack of any other option.
Yes, I knew I wasn't supposed to, but I felt that I had helped NB & its
hangers-on enough in the past to justify this breach of etiquette, &
anyway it was only a temporary stopgap til I found more suitable storage
space. One afternoon/evening in early May I was in the cubicle arranging
my things in preparation to move it all to a better spot I'd found.
Normally I left the elevator door open so as not to be locked in the
compartment if the elevator moved to a different floor, but in this case I
knew it would take me a block of time to properly sort through all my
crap, & I didn't want to monopolize the elevator if others needed to use
it. So I closed the elevator door, locking myself in with a flashlight, &
got to work. "What are the chances the elevator will have a meltdown
during the one hour that I'm in here?" I asked myself (rhetorically).

To my amazed chagrin, that is exactly what happened. The elevator left the
1st floor & didn't come back. Eventually I figured out someone must have
taken it offline. I decided there was nothing to do but wait for it to
come back in service; in the meantime, I continued sorting & packing,
until my flashlight went dead. Then, since I was tired, it was nighttime &
I figured the elevator wouldn't be fixed until the next morning, I went to
sleep as best I could in that cramped space. This is the one & only time I
ever slept in that compartment, mind you, rumors to the contrary. When I
woke 10 hours or so later, there was still no sign of the elevator
returning to normal operations. Now, for the first time, I started to
worry. I had minimal food & no water with me. I thought of the guy I'd
heard about who had recently been crushed by the BART elevator after
deciding to sleep on top of it. I tried to remain calm & occupied myself
by going through all my belongings a second time, then a third....why the
Hell wasn't anybody fixing the goddamned elevator? At a certain point I
really started to freak out. After I'd spent more than 24 hours locked in
that space, I was becoming seriously dehydrated. With a surge of
adrenaline I grabbed a thick board & started pounding on the walls of the
cubicle, hoping to attract attention. Then I smashed the glass diamond
window in the elevator door & tried to reach through & somehow get the
door to open from the outside. No luck, that thing's hydraulic, you'd have
to be the Incredible Hulk. Finally, I managed to punch a hole with the
board through the drywall. I enlarged it until I could crawl through into
a dark, cobwebby crawlspace beneath the front staircase. I could hear
people talking, walking up & down the stairs at intervals of a few
minutes. I was out of the suffocating cubicle, but still not free. I began
pounding at the stairs from below wioth the board, then slicing at them
with a knife. At this point one of the guys from Mi Ranchito below NB in
the same building came over to investigate all the noise & saw my
knife-blade sticking through the gap in one of the steps. I don't know if
he thought I was some insane burglar trying to break into the building, or
what, but I managed to talk to him through a hole in the wall of the
entryway. He brought me a bottle of water & called Wei Ho, the property
owner, & got permission to tear up one of the stairboards so I could crawl
out. Barely: it was so tight my chest got compressed on the way out, but I
was free at last!

Jonny 290 posted:

i thought about trying to either trying to start or integrate some sort of community hack thing but i am so put off by communities like this that im just going to buy a 14' enclosed trailer and fill it with some benches and tools and have a sick portable shop

big tools can be set up outside. should be good

quote:

I do love Noisebridge and I'm quite sincere in my belief that having a designated napping place will reduce the problems around sleeping in the space. I apologize for not bringing this to the mailinglist; it was mentioned in the meeting notes for the two weeks prior to beginning construction, and before that I sought out input from a variety of people who I expected to have reservations about it (are you sure I didn't mention it to you, jake? I thought I had). The general feeling I got from those discussions was that it's worth a shot. There was not a consensus proposal about it.

I request that people refrain from disassembling the hacker-stacker napping pods without first waiting a while to see if they don't improve the situation. If I'm totally wrong about my predictions, I will help disassemble them myself.

Jonny 290 posted:

i thought about trying to either trying to start or integrate some sort of community hack thing but i am so put off by communities like this that im just going to buy a 14' enclosed trailer and fill it with some benches and tools and have a sick portable shop

big tools can be set up outside. should be good

SmokaDustbowl posted:

hacking is loving awesome and by hacking I mean actually knowing about computers and electronics and not smoking meth in an elevator shaft with white supremacists

pram posted:

99% chance its covered in dried semen, or piss, or poo poo, or cocaine, or meth, or vomit

atomicthumbs posted:

apparently they've added rfid access control for their "reboot". maybe it'll become less poo poo (ha ha)

atomicthumbs posted:

apparently they've added rfid access control for their "reboot". maybe it'll become less poo poo (ha ha)

atomicthumbs posted:

i do love that it is apparently possible to DoS the door since you can open it with an android app

Raluek posted:

he haxord the window

SmokaDustbowl posted:

one of my best friends injected an RFID chip from one of those kits into his hand, dude is fuckin crazy. he said the needle was huge and he had to bite the fuckin bullet and just do it. he uses it to unlock his PC and poo poo which is more hackerish than anything in that hackerspace. also he's not TOO weird and did it right so it didn't get infected and you can't even tell

meanwhile dudes are dropping dooks on soldering irons

EMILY BLUNTS posted:

was it crip eatin bread?

SmokaDustbowl posted:

yo can I come over and help with your radios I'm super poor and radios are awesome

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

Or how about a public-garbage-can that explodes when a certain number of Noisebridges congregate near it? Sound crazy?

atomicthumbs posted:

BeOSPOS posted:

there's already a regular SF yospos/h4cker meetup

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

dibs on the guy gal being in the green shirt

SmokaDustbowl posted:

lol some of my friends lived in the same condo complex, so they got a couple of old directTV dishes from where ever and set up a line of sight network for sharing pirated videos

there was a tree in the way and when it was windy the tree branches would break the connection and gently caress it all up

"[Noisebridge-discuss posted:

Let's start being excellent to me"]
I seem to be leading people to confusion over my status as a homeless person. Since my battle with the Texas courts I have not been once out of a home. I have a place to go to and there are many welcoming people inside. I provide food for them and am excellent to everyone else. Why can you guys not be excellent to me?

None of you are trained psychiatrists and shouldn't be diagnosing me.

VLADIMIR GLUTEN posted:

that is actually cool as gently caress, what kind of bandwidth did that get?

SmokaDustbowl posted:

I honestly don't remember it was years ago, but it was enough to stream poo poo from one place to the other almost a block away

assuming it wasn't windy with the tree loving things up lol

VLADIMIR GLUTEN posted:

for anyone who doesn't know, a lot of the people causing poo poo at noisebridge are oogles, basically crust punks but even less cool



theyre pretty much the worst

VLADIMIR GLUTEN posted:

for anyone who doesn't know, a lot of the people causing poo poo at noisebridge are oogles, basically crust punks but even less cool




theyre pretty much the worst

bobbilljim posted:

lol nice inline pic of a penis

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

dibs on the guy gal in the green shirt

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

it's me, actually

quote:

Will,
I have an understanding with Miloh that I would not be there tonight. i
pointed out that that was rather short notice under the circumstances. So I
would appreciate it if this was placed on the agenda for next weeks Tuesday
night meeting.

I make exception to the statements that I was loud. Most people didn't even
look up from what they were doing, a couple came over to ask what was going
on though. I believe the behavior of the three men who met me and refused
to clarify what behavior they were taking exception to was not excellent.
Jessie said something about some email conversation I had with him, perhaps
a long time ago? and refused to provide me with hard copies so i could be
clear what conversation he was talking about and he did not state what his
email address is. Basically, the concept of calling the police for what is
basically a dislike of another person (that most people would overlook and
go on with their life) is a really bad portend for Noisebridge. If I had
had that attitude while in medical practice, the police would have been
called every week.

The unexcellent behavior was on the part of the three men. My email address
is known through the discuss list and why was this not addressed in an
email so I didn't walk 45 minutes from downtown to be confronted with this
unexcellent behavior. Perhaps Noisebridge needs to be an association
instead of nonprofit community space? so it can be limited to "hackers".

I locked my self in the bathroom for obvious reasons related to what
bathrooms are used for.

for those who do not know me, I have been coming to Noisebridge for about a
year. i have regularly cleaned the kitchens and floors (but I cleared out
when the woman known as "Wish" decided to be there because I do not relish
confrontations). I also helped out at events, spending up to 20 hours one
weekend alone, sort and take out trash, clean bathrooms, use public access
computers from time to time (and give them up when asked) helped out with
Tastebridge and Vegan Hacker (although these three men dispute the value of
these events/groups). I do not steal and I am not loud. I have asked for
mediation regarding one person who was trying to be objectionable and he
has declined to do so (not me). I am a retired family physician with a
history of legal actions in Texas against government and corporations.

--
Cynthia Jeanne Lee MD
http://cynthiajeanneleemd.wordpress.com