SocialMeeting
Sunday March 24th, 2013: Irish Heritage Day and Rube Goldberg device
Celebrating Irish Heritage through potato guns, plus construction (outside) of a messy Rube Goldberg device. Dress warm.
1 pm at Tina's house, directions via email. We need people to bring potatoes for the potato cannon, and a target. For the Rube Goldberg device, we need people to bring ideas of what useless/useful thing we want it to accomplish, plus all sorts of interesting things to incorporate into it. Snack food contributions and lanterns would also be good.
| Name | # of self/family/friends | Idea for RG | RG supplies | Potato gun supplies | Food and drinks |
| Tina Wood-Wentz | 3 | Fire the potato gun | ?? | ?? | chips, cake with lemon frosting + vanilla ice cream, hot decaf tea, hot chocolate (no mini-marshmallows), single serving instant packets for coffee |
| Dennis DeLorme | x | x | x | potato gun | |
| Tim Massaro | 1 | start or finish w Recyclotron | yes | air powered geocache gadget ala mini potato gun | cans of tab & some gummi bears |
| Your name here | x | x | x | x | x |
Suggestions for future socials
If you like the idea, please let us know!
Outdoors
- Jon Tolllefson suggested a good idea for a future Klug/Pc club social...he says we should have a klug/pc club social this summer where people bring out their RC planes and helicopters to demo Tim added to that remote control cars/trucks, boats and quad copters....might be limited where we can do it if we actually do planes though but the plane people would know.
- Sledding (but where? (judd hill and eastwood park are official sites in roch for sledding, stewartville has a sledding hill))
- Snowshoeing and/or cross country skiing at Quarry Hill. They also rent equipment. (Nerstrand Big Woods state park also has showshoes for rent)
- Paintball
- Mini golf
- Canoe trip (this would have to be at least a half day trip to the Root River)
- Ice cream social
- Kite flying and rocket launching (wind will allow for one or the other)
- Picnic
- Frisbee golf
- Walk
- Roadside or river litter cleanup
- Geocaching - perhaps we can borrow some devices and have several practice caches set up, or perhaps we can team up to find some more challenging targets. Probably also a multi-hour social.
- Orienteering event or practice field trip
- Snow tubing and/or skiing at Steeplechase (No good, Steeplechase is closed for 2007-2009 seasons)
- WWFM (World Wide Flash Mob), the next one is Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
- Stone House Stables trail rides (yes, horses), $30 for a ride that's 45-60 minutes
Indoors
- Goonies Comedy Club
- Bowling
- Whistle Binkies / Westfire / Beetles / Whisky Bones / other locations with adult beverages and now smoke free!
- pwned game center gaming night (did 12/08) or Area 51 Gaming
- Movies (upcoming sci fi movie releases include Watchmen, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Star Trek XI, Terminator IV, Transformers II, or whatever you have to suggest)
- Documentaries: "Revolution OS"
- Discussion of experience of being an election judge, next time we meet someplace that's not too loud
- Board and card games. Some members are fans of Robo Rally and Munchkin
- Ice skating at the Rec Center, skate rentals available
- RC helicoptor/plane flying at the Rec Center. Tuesday nights, 7-10 pm. Bring your own UFO. Free.
- Rube Goldberg device, built out of whatever we brought. Include Diet Coke and Mentos?
- Potato guns!
- Baking geeky cookies
- Take an introductory archery session at Archery Headquarters
- Museum field trip:
- Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis, Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul
- Putnam Museum & IMAX Theatre in Davenport IA for the May 23 - Sept. 8, 2009 GPS Adventure exhibit. Details on what the exhibit would be like can be found here http://www.minotaurmazes.com/mazedetail.html?maze=19
- Leonardo's Basement has adult projects at Studio Bricolage (Jan topic was build a jacob's ladder and other high voltage projects )
- Your suggestion here, please (or email Tina)
Volunteer/service opportunities of potential interest to K-LUGgers
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| Name | Brief description | Ongoing, annual, single time event | Commitment timeframe | K-LUGger contact | Website |
| Litter Bit Better | Trash cleanup | Annual | 1-3 hours during Earth Week, mid-April | Tina Wood-Wentz | LBB in general, 2011 event organized by Tina |
| Entertainment Software Association grant for technology | Partnering with a library in Hobson City MO to bring more computers to their town | Single | unknown | Mark Diez (PCIG) | ESA Grant application |
| Your name here | x | x | x | x | x |