From kennita at kennita.com Thu Oct 7 10:38:30 2004 From: kennita at kennita.com (Kennita Watson) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 03:38:30 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Stanford Quads intro nights Message-ID: <079EB6C0-184D-11D9-87EE-000A9573E7DA@kennita.com> It's that time of year again -- the time when I exhort all Bay Area Extropians and other intelligent folks to try out the Stanford Quads. Sundays, this year on October 10th and/or 17th and/or 24th. So what's it all about? Stanford Quads is a Palo Alto square dance club. Before you tune out with "I don't dance" -- it's not like that. Come see. What are some of the ways it's "not like that"? 1) The caller/instructor, like many of the dancers, is hyperintelligent. John Sybalsky is a C4-level square dance caller, one of only a few dozen in the world. 2) There is always something new to learn. Good for the brain, especially when combined with movement and music -- can you say "multi-modality"? 3) There are never long choreographic sequences to learn -- the longest call takes 32 beats, and most are between 2 and 8. The fun is in putting them together, like a puzzle. 4) There is no motion required faster than a walking pace, and no quick turns. Actually, one description I've used is "walking in patterns". And if even walking is difficult, never fear -- you get handholds every few steps (they help define and transition between patterns), 5) John uses little or no standard square dance music (and if you have music of your own that's at the appropriate pace, he'll consider it). 6) Think of your group of 8 people as being like a Rubik's cube: you start out arranged, and the caller uses legal transforms to scramble it, then solves it again. A lot of use is made of symmetry -- the process is near-magical if you pay attention. Think group theory. 7) There are two parts, a "boy" part and a "girl" part, but you're welcome to choose either one, and even to switch back and forth once you've learned both (it's easiest to learn one part or the other before doing that). 8) If you turn your brain off and go on autopilot, you'll be sorry :-) . 9) It's a noncompetitive, participatory (i.e., non-spectator) team sport. 10) When you're done with John's class, you'll be one of the best square dancers around, as befits an Extropian. There's probably more, but that's what comes to mind. Come on out and try it a few times, for free! What have you got to lose? I hope to see you at Fairmeadow School, 500 East Meadow Drive at Cowper in Palo Alto. from 7 to 9 PM on Sunday, October 10th and/or 17th and/or 24th. Continue if you like it, otherwise you can at least say you've tried it. Look for Kennita -- I'll be happy to see you there! Here's my original ad in the Mensa Intelligencer: Traumatized by hours of mindless do-si-do'ing to awful music back in school? It's different now. Come try Square Dancing For Smart People -- It's not "square" any more. See set theory in motion! Join the Stanford Quads at Fairmeadow School, 500 East Meadow Drive at Cowper in Palo Alto. You don't need a partner, special clothes, or any previous dance experience. Feel free to bring both left feet (or were those right feet)? Good light exercise for body and mind! Web site: http://www.mixed-up.com/quads Contact: Kennita Watson, kennita at kennita.com or (408) 749-0915. Live long and prosper, Kennita -- Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds. -- Bob Marley, "Redemption Song" From bronto at pobox.com Sun Oct 10 20:50:58 2004 From: bronto at pobox.com (Anton Sherwood) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:50:58 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Offer: "Truck-load" of computer hardware (Castro Valley) (fwd) Message-ID: <4169A0B2.1070404@pobox.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Offer: "Truck-load" of computer hardware (Castro Valley) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:02:39 -0700 From: Chris Weiss To: FreecycleEastSFBayArea at yahoogroups.com Fall cleaning time - all my old computer gear must go. I've not used these in a long time (exceptions noted below), so it's all "as-is" and YOU MUST TAKE ALL OF IT! My schedule is insane lately and I dont have the free time to be parting things out. There's gotta be close to 9 cubic feet of stuff here, so you'll need a free trunk and backseat to hold it all. The hardware is located in Castro Valley The list is pretty accurate - there'll likely be more items as I find them... 5 PC keyboards (ps/2 & old-school D connector and one wireless) 1 keyboard drawer (new in box) 1 Intel Pro 10/100 network print server 9 video cards including PCI, AGP, & even 1 EISA (ASUS, Radeon, S3, one Mac Radeon) 4 10/100 Network cards (PCI & 1 ISA - Netgear & Intel) 1 ATA100 Promise PCI card (not RAID) 4 ISA modem cards 11 sound cards - PCI & ISA - Creative Labs, Aureal 4 SCSI cards (3 PCI, 1 ISA - SCSI1/SCSI2/SCSIUW) 6 printer cables, 2 SCSI cables Linksys 8 port hub, missing adapter Wang 13" color monitor ISA motherboard w/486 DX4/120 CPU ISA motherboard w/AMD K6/233 CPU 4 power supplies - untested 6 mice (PS2 & USB) 1 CueCat scanner 4 USB card readers (2 external CF, 2 multi-format internal floppy bay mount) UMAX SCSI flatbed scanner dozens of sticks of 32pin and 72pin SIMMs AMD Athalon 1ghz CPU AMD K6/2 333mhz CPU Intel Celeron 300a slot 1 CPU Handful of USB cables Several handfuls of drive cables Handful of power cables Box of CPU coolers/fans PCs - all were powered up to verify CPU speed and RAM: tower - no motherboard, 250watt P/S minitower - AMD K6/2 500 PCI/ISA 250watt P/S desktop - AMD K6/2 350 128mb RAM PCI/ISA unknown P/S minitower - P200 MMX 128mb RAM PCI/ISA 250watt P/S minitower - P150 8mb RAM PCI/ISA unknown P/S minitower - p150 128mb RAM PCI/ISA 250watt P/S tower - P133 32mb RAM PCI/ISA 250watt P/S 13 hard drives from 650mb to 30gb including 2 SCSI 1 CD-ROM drive 1 CD-R/W drive (Plextor!) 1 DVD drive (old Creative Labs 1st gen) Everex Tempo LX Laptop (cannot read HD) Canon BJ-10e portable printer (untested) Sharp Wireless Mouse Control System (untested) 3Com Audrey From bronto at pobox.com Mon Oct 11 03:55:24 2004 From: bronto at pobox.com (Anton Sherwood) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:55:24 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Re: "Truck-load" of computer hardware (Castro Valley) Message-ID: <416A042C.9080104@pobox.com> Subject: TAKEN: "Truck-load" of computer hardware (Castro Valley) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:04:45 -0700 From: Chris Weiss To: Chris Weiss CC: FreecycleEastSFBayArea at yahoogroups.com The hardware's been taken.