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=== Lunch '''FIELD TRIP''': Thursday June '''27th''' === | |||
'''Note nonstandard date and location.''' | |||
11:30 am, RochesterFest. Meet on the north side of the food area, we'll try to take over a picnic table or two. If you won't recognize the group, this might not be a good first event for you, as we'll probably be hard to spot. | |||
Haven't been to the RochesterFest food vendors area before? They close down Civic Center Drive SE/3rd Ave SE between the library and the civic center. Got a favorite "fair food" that you'd like to make sure you can find? Here's a [http://www.rochesterfest.com/food-vendors.php list of the vendors, what they sell], and [http://cms.cws.net/content/rochesterfest.com/files/RochFEST%20coupon%20PAGE%202013%20FINAL.pdf coupons]. | |||
In case of bad weather, you can still converge on the Apache Mall food court near B&N. | |||
Revision as of 14:08, 2 July 2013
Lunch FIELD TRIP: Thursday June 27th
Note nonstandard date and location.
11:30 am, RochesterFest. Meet on the north side of the food area, we'll try to take over a picnic table or two. If you won't recognize the group, this might not be a good first event for you, as we'll probably be hard to spot.
Haven't been to the RochesterFest food vendors area before? They close down Civic Center Drive SE/3rd Ave SE between the library and the civic center. Got a favorite "fair food" that you'd like to make sure you can find? Here's a list of the vendors, what they sell, and coupons.
In case of bad weather, you can still converge on the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
Social: Saturday June 22nd
We're stealing RochesterFest ideas, and finally going to see Cascade Meadows environmental learning center in NW Rochester. There's a 10-2 event about pollinators (bees, butterflies, etc).
When: Noon
Where: Cascade Meadow Wetlands & Environmental Science Center, 2900 19th St NW Rochester MN 55901
We'll meet outside the main doors in nice weather, or just inside them in less plesant weather.
Here is the description offered on their website:
Cascade Meadow is fluttering with excitement to observe National Pollinator Week with a celebration of Bees, Butterflies, Bats, and Birds and their wondrous work as pollinators! We invite you to buzz over to a Pollination Celebration at Cascade Meadow.
Exhibitors from across Minnesota will help you discover the plants and animals that sweeten the world through pollination! The celebration will be fun for the whole family with lots of children’s activities hosted by Minnesota Master Naturalists.
Refreshments celebrating pollinators and their marvelous products will be available for purchase, but bring a water bottle to enjoy RPU’s award-winning drinking water. Admission is free and the Pollination Celebration is a Rochesterfest event! Be sure to carpool for better parking!
Technical Meeting: Thursday June 13th
Dennis DeLorme took a computer museum tour in California, and is willing to tell us about it. His main topic will be the Babbage difference engine. He'll also talk about connecting your LCD to ____. Remember the 2005 LCD presentation and project? Yep, that one.
When: Thursday April 11th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
If this presentation runs short and weather permits, we'll go play some disc golf afterwards.
Here are Dennis' slides on the LCD portion.
Social: Thursday May 23rd
As of 5/13, there were still no disc golf holes out at RCTC, and I'm not thrilled about bringing toddlers to East Park for several reasons. So we're going to go to Stewartville, and play disc golf at Bear Cave Park. We typically have a few spare discs to share among those attending, but if you plan on attending and need to borrow it's best if you can give us a heads up. Otherwise you can throw your own non-golf disc, a ball, or a shoe.
Disc golf
Thursday May 23rd
6:30 pm, with 5:30 pm dinner at Wendy's south by Kohl's
Bear Cave Park, Stewartville
Lunch: Thursday May 16th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Technical Meeting: Thursday, May 9th - FIRST Robotics Competition Demo at Byron High School
The Byron High School FIRST Robotics Competition team, just back from the Minnesota 10000 Lakes Regional, will fill us in on their experience in this exciting celebration of science, engineering and technology.
We will meet in the Byron High School Commons / Dining Hall at 6:30PM
Agenda:
5 min Overview of FRC and Byron Robotics
5 min Technical stuff on Bot
5 min Lessons Learned
5 min Mentor-ship Opportunities
20-40 min Ultimate Ascent game
There will be a "driver station" and arena mock up setup.
That will allow a few of us to try our luck at scoring within the standard 2 minute period.
The team only has two batteries so will probably run on last about 20 minutes or so.
Address:
1887 2nd Ave NW, Byron, MN 55920
Enter through doors by the flagpole. Note there is a choir concert at 7pm in the Auditorium
Non-workday social: Wednesday April 24th
Civic responsibility opportunity, participate in the Litter Bit Better campaign, geocache, and hang out with some K-LUGgers and geocachers.
5:30 pm, Quarry Hill
Lunch: Thursday April 18th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Show off and Networking event: Saturday and Sunday, April 13-14th
K-Lug will have a booth at the Minne-Maker Faire, partially to demo our Deconstruction 2013 projects but mostly to network, see other team projects and have some fun. Open to the public, Cost is $8, online, and $10 at the door. Children under 15 free ...stop by and say hi!
Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 11:00 AM - 5pm Sunday, April 14, 2013 11am - 5:00 PM (CDT)
The Hack Factory (http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/hack-factory/)
3119 E 26th St Minneapolis, MN 55406
More details and pre-order tix http://minnefaire.org/
Talk to Tim or to Matt Bruzek if you want to try to arrange anything as a group (carpooling, dinner, after-hours activities, etc). We plan to bike the greenway and visit axe-man
Social: Friday April 12th
2-5 pm: Rocket show, as part of the 67th Annual Convention of the North Central Region of the Astronomical League . The map and directions to the launch site can be found here.
Cancelled due to bad weather forecasts.
Technical Meeting: Thursday April 11th
Jim Walts, retired IBMer is about to launch a new web based business called QPonCompass.com This business includes a website, database, an iphone and Win/7 based app (in fact he's looking for help porting his app to Android and wondered if anyone on this email list is interested in taking that on?) The meeting will be this Thursday:
What: April K-lug/PCIG meeting QPonCompass.com - Jim Walts
When: Thursday April 11th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
More details about QPonCompass.com:
We are technology lovers who saw a better way to share/deliver/distribute coupons. We recognized the dependence and love people have with their mobile devices, and how integrated into their lives these devices have become.
Qpon Compass was created to provide shoppers with deals in the new venue they live in. The speed and movement of information makes paper coupons obsolete and bothersome. We created a program that makes it easy to publish, learn about, purchase, and redeem deals for both the shopper and the business owner.
After spending time working for "mammoth technology companies", Jim and Kevin applied their skills and experience to the challenges of small business owners. Jim is passionate about making new technologies fun and practical; Kevin is a penny-pincher who strives to simplify daily tasks.
Qpon Compass was born!
Always forward-thinking, we are already looking at how we can make Qpon Compass better!
Social: Sunday March 24th
Potato cannon courtesy of Dennis DeLorme, and Rube Goldberg device construction with whatever you bring. Please sign up with what you are bringing so we can brainstorm some in advance, as Tina doesn't have a well stocked workshop to be raiding. http://k-lug.org/SocialMeeting
1 pm, Tina's house (address and directions via the email list)
Lunch: Thursday March 21st
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Technical Meeting: FIELD TRIP, Thursday March 14th
How to solder. Kits will have been available for pre-order at the February technical meeting, or bring your own current project. If you own your own soldering iron and are willing to bring it to share, that's great please do so. Also needed for loan for the evening are folding chairs and tables.
Pre-orderable kits:
1) http://www.parallax.com/tabid/768/ProductID/832/Default.aspx for $7, a colored lights robot badge.
2) http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2131207_-1 for $8, a two option decision maker.
3) http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2136999_-1 for $11, Simon Says.
We're meeting at the Toymakers hacker/maker space again. http://tymkrs.com/rabbithole/
547 Northern Heights Dr NE
Rochester MN 55906
6-9 pm
For anyone who didn't go there in January, their house is on the north side of the road up a steep and twisted driveway; park on the road with a parking brake. Walk up the driveway, up the steps, and ring the doorbell. into the open garage door, and into the house without needing to ring the doorbell.
Also, PCIG elections.
Technical Meeting: Thursday February 21st
Dean Johnson, on "How I Work". Slides are here or here.
As regularly scheduled, this would fall on Valentine's Day. So as to not get anyone in trouble with their significant other, or to cause decreased attendance for our speaker, we've pushed this one back a week. Yes, you now can see your favorite geeks twice in one day if you also attend lunch.
Other agenda topics:
-Our delayed K-LUG officer elections (president, vice president, treasurer) and PCIG nominations.
-"How to solder" group kit orders, for March hands-on technical meeting. Please bring cash in exact change!
1) http://www.parallax.com/tabid/768/ProductID/832/Default.aspx for $7, a colored lights robot badge.
2) http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2131207_-1 for $8, a two option decision maker.
3) http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2136999_-1 for $11, Simon Says.
-What else?
When: Thursday February 21st - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
Lunch: Thursday February 21st
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Unofficial social: Thursday February 14th
Who needs hearts when you can eat BRAINS! Zombie-themed game night at Tina's. Family and friends are welcome. It'd be nice if you could bring a drink or snack to share, or some folding chairs.
6 pm
Social: Saturday February 2nd, 1 pm
Let's piggyback on Winterfest.
http://www.rochestermn.gov/departments/park/activities/winter/WinterFest/WinterFest_Calendar.asp
I've tried to pick something cheap or free for the official social, but I'll also cite one activity that may be of interest for group members that has a higher entry fee if anyone wants an unofficial social (sorry, my family won't be making that one).
What: Horse drawn sleigh rides and bonfire, hot cocoa and cookies, plus free museum day at the History Center Museum.
Where: The History Center of Olmsted County, 1195 West Circle Drive SW
When: Saturday February 2nd, 1 pm
Cost: free will donation, which goes to Rochester Special Olympics.
Unofficial: Thursday February 7th, Bacon Fest! $20. http://baconfestrochester.wordpress.com/
Event runs 5-9 pm, I'll set a K-LUG meeting time of 6 pm. You'll have to look for someone else to gather around though, my family won't be attending this one.
Canadian Honker Event Center at the Ramada Hotel, 1517 16th St SW
At the door: CASH ONLY
Alternate method of payment: Tickets can also be purchased online by making a $25 donation to the Sunset Terrace Playground project. The deadline is Wednesday, February 6th at midnight. Tickets purchased online can be picked up at the event.
Social: Saturday, January 19th
The following schedule is tentative, because the official movie schedule is released on Wednesday or Thursday in a week for that weekend. That's not a lot of notice for planning a group event. But I've been informed by someone who movie-goes more than my ~1x/year that schedules don't tend to vary *too* much from week to week, so we'll use the current info to plan around.
Saturday January 19th
1 pm - lunch at Kingdom Buffet
3:20 pm - The Hobbit (2D) at Cinemagic
Not the fastest route, but the most straight forward, if you're unfamiliar with either location: http://goo.gl/maps/jnGFw
Details:
Lunch at Kingdom Buffet, followed by a movie. Feature movie is The Hobbit (2D), but there are several others starting in that same general timeframe if you'd rather attend something else. Alternatively, you can do just lunch or just the movie. We'll meet for lunch at 1 pm, 1639 N Broadway. The Hobbit is at 3:20 at Cinemagic (2171 Superior Drive N.W., by the old Westfire). If Chinese isn't your favorite, please don't be intimidated; Kingdom Buffet does have several buffet items that are more Midwestern acceptable (bbq ribs, teriyaki chicken shishkabobs, salad bar with jello, pudding, hard boiled eggs and fruit, ice cream, etc), it's our preferred spot to feed our toddler when we're out and need to put food in front of her immediately but don't want fast food.
Other movies being shown at approximately the same timeframe at Cinemagic:
3:00 - Parental Guidance (PG)
3:25 - A Haunted House (R)
3:40 - Zero Dark Thirty (R)
3:50 - Les Miserables (PG-13)
(unfortunately this is a much shorter list than it had been last weekend, we lost ~1/2 the options)
Both Mayo and Think Bank have discounted movie ticket rates, but I think those are only valid on non-matinee priced movies.
Lunch: Thursday January 17th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Technical Meeting: FIELD TRIP, FRIDAY, January 11th, 2013
We're checking out a local hacker/maker space. 6 pm, we'll be tagging along to their standard monthly meeting. Their website: http://tymkrs.com/rabbithole/
547 Northern Heights Dr NE
Rochester MN 55906
If it's easy for you, throw in a folding chair. We'll provide the leftover pop from the December party, and some treats as usual. They've said if you have a project to work on, you should bring it with you.
Because of the rescheduling and the field trip, we'll put off officer elections until February.
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