http://www.jepstone.net/blog Rants and Raves from Kingston, RI Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:46:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is going to be good! BatchBlue is returning to give us a progress report on how much cooler they've become since they last presented at a geek dinner! Details and RSVP. See you all there! http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/06/17/providence-geek-dinner-tomorrow-june-18/ CC-licensed Lolrus image from Pete Mandik's photostream on flickr Life here in southern RI is not quite as boring as I let on. A few weeks (or was it months?) ago, a story broke about a woman who was discovered in a sorority on campus, and in the process of being ... http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/05/30/youve-got-internet-meme-in-my-rl/ When you plug a USB device into the EEE PC, it makes it look like it has a Windows drive letter by mounting it on something like /media/D: This is fine for a lot of stuff, but I have a USB drive I want to put a VirtualBox virtual machine ... http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/05/19/overriding-eee-pcs-drive-letter-assignment-for-usb-devices/ Inspired by SocialBomb, a few of us AS220 geeks have started working on a similar project: Arduinos that pair off and get happier the closer they are together. The first iteration of this is the Arduino Buddies, but eventually, we'll have this on a PCB and will include some ad-hoc ... http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/05/12/tom-sgouros-demos-my-arduino-buddies-at-maker-faire/ Read all about it and RSVP right here. http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/04/23/providence-geek-dinner-tonight/ When you read an article like this one, and when you're part of a community that has an answer to the question, it's hard to stay quiet. Joey deVilla gave Toronto a shout-out in his blog (and he has an awesome graphic to go along with it). Although Providence wasn't mentioned ... http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/04/22/you-sure-want-to-be-in-providenc/ I've got a lot of interesting stuff queued up, but I lack the time to play around with it. But I promise to get to them soon and blog/twitter/flickr/blip.tv all about them: Chemistry set I've been helping out with the editorial work on Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments, so I picked ... http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/04/08/pondering-the-stack/ This geek dinner is going to be a lot of fun. It's got mobile technology, a company who uses my favorite phone in their demo videos, what more could you ask for? Oh yeah, geeks, beer, and tacos. Come out and see Gypsii talk about their mobile social networking/location based ... http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/03/15/providence-geek-dinner-wednesday-march-19th/ MSNBC reports: "They had fins in various places, they had funny dangly bits around their mouths," Riddle told reporters. "They were all bottom dwellers so they were all evolved in different ways to live down on the sea bed in the dark. So many of them had very large eyes — ... http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/02/19/mysterious-creatures-found-in-antarctica/ Photo Credit: Bret Ancowitz, M.D. There's another Providence Geek dinner coming up this week; don't miss it!: Andrew Schiller, founder of Woonsocket-based Location Inc./NeighborhoodScout.com, a nationwide neighborhood search engine for home buyers and movers with 1.8 million unique visitors last year, will be talking about their patented search technology that answers the ... http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2008/02/18/providence-geek-dinner-this-wednesday-february-20th/