[Robotgroup] Earth Day!

[Paul Atkinson]

Have you been watching the trailers with Wall-e again?!

Paul

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Robo Al <sp-18561884 at ggsys.net> wrote:

> The goal of the Robotgroup is not to protect the human life
> within this Earth, but rather to worship the robotic creations
> and make as many of them as possible that will survive our
> puny little specie ;-)
>
> We'll destroy the Earth for ourselves, but our robots will
> continue. Or am I missing something?
>
> Robo me
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:29 -0500, Robert Carter wrote:
> > Hi all--
> >
> > Hi all--
> >
> > I just added a note on the meetup calendar for the Austin Earth Day
> > event.
> >
> > About the whole Earth Day thing: it's great, I love it, I think it's
> > very cool that we're taking part. However, I'm reminded of when I was
> > showing off the ping pong printer at Plutopia, one woman asked about
> > the whole concept of Plutopia (convergence, sustainability, futurism)
> > and what all of that had to do with printing on ping pong balls.
> > Particularly the sustainability thing. It caught me off guard, but I
> > managed to come up with a halfway decent line about the whole maker
> > philosophy, and people being able to create their own solutions and
> > tools rather than relying on what they can buy at Wal Mart. I felt
> > like I bluffed my way out of that one pretty well. But we should
> > maybe start thinking now how to reply to questions about how these
> > weird electrical things we build are supposed to help heal the planet.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents...
> >
> > R
> >
> >
> > On Apr 14, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Def Egge wrote:
> >
> > > At 14:40  2008-04-14, you wrote:
> > > -=-=-=-=-= begin quoted message =-=-=-=-=-
> > >> Ok folks, we're booked for another event! A bit
> > > short notice, but a
> > >> paying gig at least. :D This is it:
> > >>
> > >> http://www.austinearthday.com
> > >>
> > >> Austin Earth Day
> > >> Saturday April 19th
> > >> Republic Square Park
> > >> 9:00am-1:00pm (TRG till 1,  event closes @ 6pm)
> > >>
> > >> Our contact is Warren McKinney, he's organizing
> > > the kids art area at
> > >> the
> > >> park on Saturday. They will provide 2 tables
> > > and power is available,
> > >> but
> > >> we might need some extension cords.
> > >>
> > >> We're on for the RoboSpinArt machine using
> > > recycled paper (use all the
> > >>
> > >> printed RSA cards we have left over from other events! ;)
> > >>
> > >> We might also bring the Ping Pong printer and/or SanDraw. Whatever
> > >> will
> > >> fit on two tables... Maybe just the RSA and make the other table a
> > >> recruiting table with T-Shirts and other stuff..?
> > >>
> > >> Anyway, I need some voluntolds.. :)
> > >>
> > >> Also-- Robert/Mike (anyone with access):
> > >>
> > >> please update the front page of TRG with--
> > >>    -The Wheel Roundup
> > >>    -The upcoming Earth Day event.
> > >>
> > >> Please update the calendar on Meetup.com with
> > > the upcoming earth day
> > >> event! Thanks! :)
> > >>
> > >> Vern
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Vern Graner CNE/CNA/SSE    | "If the network is down, then you're
> > >> Senior Systems Engineer    | obviously incompetent so why are we
> > >> Texas Information Services | paying you? Of course, if the network
> > >> http://www.txis.com        | is up, then we obviously don't need
> > >> Austin Office 512 328-8947 | you, so why are we paying you?" (c)VLG
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> > >
> > > -=-=-=-=-= end quoted message =-=-=-=-=-
> > >
> > > I do not have access to the MeetUp account.  I
> > > believe that Robert does, though.
> > >
> > > I'll look at making changes to the wiki.
> > >
> > > As a reminder, to all: Denise and I are tied
> > > dawn-to-dusk (possibly, beyond) on Saturday with
> > > the Austin Outrigger Canoe Club's Austin
> > > Sprints.  Other volunteers will have to come out to the event.
> > >
> > > Let me know before Thursday so that Denise or I
> > > can provide an attendee with the necessary
> > > t-shirts and fluorescent green stickers.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > All the best....
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
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> > Robert Carter
> > Visual Resources Collection
> > School of Architecture
> > The University of Texas at Austin
> > rcarter at ischool.utexas.edu
> >
> >
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