From mark_galeck at pacbell.net Sat Apr 17 07:57:18 2004 From: mark_galeck at pacbell.net (Mark Galeck) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 00:57:18 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] Botball Northern California regional tournament this Saturday Message-ID: <00ef01c42451$9b2d1370$98746945@andromeda> Botball Northern Cal regional tournament is April 17 in Santa Clara. This is an artificial intelligence contest for high school students and it is great fun to watch. Unlike idiotic remote-control I-blow-you-up robot contests seen on TV, here the participants push a button and from then on the robots are autonomous. The robots are built with standardized hardware and software libraries to even the chances; the student teams put together the robots and write algorithms in C programming language. Information is at http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2004/04_33AR.html Final rounds start at 2:30pm. Mark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bronto at pobox.com Mon Apr 26 23:53:29 2004 From: bronto at pobox.com (Anton Sherwood) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:53:29 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] 6 week Free Summer Sub-let in Exchange for Dog & Cat Sitting (fwd) Message-ID: <408DA0F9.5000800@pobox.com> *6 week Free Summer Sub-let in Exchange for Dog & Cat Sitting (Attachment is same as text below) Who: Allysyn Kiplinger (hopefully, MA ?04) Contact: 510-420-0696 or allysyn at xraycards.com What: free summer sub-let in exchange for dog & cat sitting When: June 9 approx. July 28, 2004 Where: Oakland residential neighborhood Please call if this sounds good to you! Or, pass it on. *I will be out of town from approx. Wednesday June 9 until Wednesday July 28 I am looking for a responsible animal lover who would like to live free for 6 weeks in my charming 650 sq. foot second story flat near Piedmont Avenue in sunny Oakland. Your job will be to be a calm, reassuring, fun presence for my creatures for the 6 weeks of my absence. It?d be great if you didn?t work (much) so you could just hang out here. You get a relaxed place to live - I get a great dog (and cat) sitter. Sorry, no children or animals of your own. *The dogs* are middle-aged spayed females. Nova, 6 years old, is a honey-colored shepard-lab mix, a moderate alpha. Rosie is a 7 year old black lab-greyhound mix, a recent addition to the family. Both are very pleasant dogs who love walkies. *Baby the cat* is a gentleman in retirement. He is 20 years old, short hair gray tabby & white. He needs a bit of special attention: a small pill 2x day for his hyperthyroid (he?s very skinny). He will need transport to his doctor for a two quick check-ups while I?m gone. You will need your own car for this. *The 650 sq. ft. second story apartment* is in a charming 1906 craftsman house on a little tiny street off a really big street near Piedmont Avenue. It has: oak hardwood & carpet, up-right piano, queen size bed, southeastern facing deck with lots of sun, dial-up PC computer, fax, t.v., DVD & video players, big desk, tiny galley kitchen, gas range, fridge, tub-shower combo, lots of books, a few antiques, houseplants, washer & dryer in basement, front & back yard with shade, fruit trees (plums will be ripe on the solstice), palm tree, flowers, native plants, porch swing (in yard), and great, helpful neighbors. On-street parking. *Piedmont Avenue, one block away, * is one of Oakland?s original neighborhood shopping streets. It has almost everything you might need: 44 eating establishments (from 1 to 5 star in quality), coffee and tea houses, pubs, bars, awesome independent grocery store, banks, boutiques, home furnishings and antique stores, hair and nail salons, game store, library, movie theater, and two video rental stores (one is dog-friendly!). We also have a well-kept little urban creek and two farmers markets. You are two blocks from the freeway on-ramp, a half-mile from MacArthur BART, a hardware store, and two more shopping streets (Grand Avenue & Lakeshore) and Lake Merritt. Doesn?t this sound great?! I hope this is what you are looking for. Please contact me. [Allysyn, not Anton] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Free Summer Oakland Flat in Exchange for Dog.doc Type: application/octet-stream Size: 21504 bytes Desc: not available URL: