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Update 10-13-08:  Don’t use the following instructions.  AT&T has changed their program.  Instead follow this link and use these instructions.

If you are signing up for AT&T Wireless, you can get a $25 gift card directly from AT&T by signing up for the Refer-A-Friend program. $25 free money.

Here’s what you should do:

1. Get AT&T wireless service. Sign up for a phone plan that costs at least $39.99   per month.
2. Go to this web site and click “Register”: https://referral.wireless.att.com
3. click on “My Friend is an AT&T customer and referred me”. Make sure to enter my phone number: 415..eight two one..3321.
4. Complete the rest of the registration.

That’s it! AT&T will send each of us a $25 gift card in about 3 months

This AT&T referral program is just like getting at $25 discount on your first wireless bill. The coupon comes in the form of a credit card / gift card that you can use to pay your AT&T telephone bill or at AT&T company owned stores

Went to this last night. It was cool. They said a video of it will be on fora.tv really soon. Fora.tv looks cool too….. “There are brilliant ideas, expressed everyday in public discussions and events, all over the world. Don’t miss them”

Fire Arts & Burning Desires

Flame as a creative medium with Burning Man fire artists

02 Nov 2007 from 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM Pacific Time

Practical Information: Location: 730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 map| directions| parking Cost: Suggested donation $10

In partnership with: LEONARDO

In collaboration with Burning Man and Leonardo Journal, swissnex San Francisco presents an evening symposium entitled “Fire Arts and Burning Desires” with presentations by several Burning Man fire artists who will discuss the use of their work with fire as a creative medium.

From a pyrrhic highlight to a transcendent interaction, when is fire an appropriate part of a sculptural statement? How to use fire in a safe way for both the artist and the audience? Get a peek behind the scenes of the creation of previous Burning Man fire art spectacles.

Fire Arts & Burning Desires is hosted by swissnex San Francisco and presented by Burning Man and Leonardo Journal, who recently collaborated in publishing an exclusive collection of essays and photographs on the Fire Arts of Burning Man (LJ Volume 40 issue # 4).

Speakers attending the symposium will include Crimson Rose (The Fire Goddess), The Flaming Lotus Girls, (TBA), Bill Codding (The Burninator), Wally Glen (The Zen Fire Garden), Lucy Hoskins (Satin’s Calliope) and DaveX who will discuss the safety parameters of working with fire in an artistic way.

For fore information or questions please contact event producer Louis M. Brill.

Program

6:30pm: Registration and aperitif

7:00pm: Introduction by Louis M. Brill, swissnex San Francisco and Leonardo Journal

7:20pm: Symposium starts

8:50pm: Q&A

9:15pm: Networking and finger food

10:00pm: Doors close

Action Figure Graveyard

Simulated Comic Product

JWZ Blog

TJIC Blog

SWARM blog

and now

Stick Figures in Peril  

corneredcat.com – An excellent guide to shooting for women… and men.

womenandguns.com/wfn/somany.html – A good buying guide for female shooters. Check out the rest of the site too.

pistolprowess.com/Choosing_a_Pistol.htm – another gun buying guide

calguns.net   – a good discussion forum for guns in California

gunbroker.com – The eBay of the gun world.

I was looking for a handgun that was:

• popular (easy to find parts for)
• relatively inexpensive
• a grip my girlfriend could handle as well as I

Springfield XD 9 – good (and pretty) except the grip is too large. The runner-up.

Beretta 92FS – What I ended up with :-)

tommysgunpack.com/ – holsters

dragunov.net/bay_area_ranges.htm Bay Area shooting ranges

http://www.sightm1911.com/ a site for the 1911 handgun

I was going to do a whole write-up on Maker Faire 2007 but there’s just not enough time in a day. Here’s what I’ve got…

HatManDo – a game system where participants move their characters on the screen by moving their bodies around a grid. They wear a hat with LEDs on it that are seen by a camera high up. The creator writes “send me your comments nye2 -at- email dat com”.

Puppy Mover Monorail – geeky cuteness.

Make your own Handheld Animated Butterflies – by Roger Sonntag. He came in from upstate New York to show these off. It uses an electromagnet to shoot butterflies or rings up a pole. The butterflies are actually pretty neat.

Charlotte put on this workshop in August. It was well attended and everyone enjoyed it… even the man who learned some male belly dance moves!

At Burning Man, under the man there were a couple preachy signs. Here’s my favorite.

Sorry it’s hard to read. I lost my digital camera at the Albertsons in El Cerrito on my way to Burning Man so all I had was my emergency film camera.

I thought it was ludicrous at the time but it got me thinking a lot.
The problem is: cell phones need a metal called tantalum to make their tiny capacitors, the largest supplies of tantalum are in the Democratic Republic of The Congo which is a fairly lawless place and gorillas and miners are treated poorly there.

Read it for yourself.

Julia is building a whole little world on the internet.

Here’s her panda Debbie’s bedroom. She bought and placed every object in the room on Webkinz :-)

My original post on the subject of my Pioneer DEH-P6700MP car stereo has received so many comments that I created this second post, just so people don’t have to scroll down so terribly far to read all of the terrific comments.

I have closed comments on the original post. Please leave a comment here to continue the thread.

Yours in music,

Lee