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| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: To be rescheduled === |
| | Acu Dorin will present on opensource AI software and an effort he and some other folks have made to create a private version of a chatGPT like AI interface |
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| === Social: Saturday June 22nd ===
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| 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).
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| Where: Cascade Meadow Wetlands & Environmental Science Center, [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Cascade%20Meadow%20Wetlands%20%26%20Environmental%20Science%20Center%202900%2019th%20St%20NW%20Rochester%20MN%2055901 2900 19th St NW Rochester MN 55901]
| | === Outside Social: Friday March 22nd, 6 pm === |
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| We'll meet outside the main doors in nice weather, or just inside them in less plesant weather.
| | Geocaching! The March equinox is an excuse to [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2024/03/celebrating-the-march-equinox/ find 3 geocaches during the week of the equinox]. If you've never geocached before, this is a great time to join us. Wear your hiking shoes, long sturdy pants, and otherwise dress for the weather. |
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| | We will chase 3 multi-caches that start to the east and north of St Marys Hospital |
| | https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6G6R5 |
| | https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XDH0 |
| | https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XEQV |
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| Here is the description offered on their website:
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| | https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC56K4K |
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| 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.
| | I skimmed through the logs, and none of our regulars seem to have found these, so hopefully everyone will qualify for the achievement. |
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| 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.
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| | There is a limited quantity of 2 hour parking in St. Marys Park proper. However, the neighborhood parking permit restriction opens back up starting at 5:30, so by starting at 6 pm you should be able to park on the street (and not be competing with employees for spots) for the duration of our explorations. |
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| 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!
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| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th === |
| | Speaker cancelled due to illness, will reschedule. |
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| | Tim Massaro will come to our rescue, and will present on his Partyrock/Blackrock hackathon project, as well as brainstorming some future socials. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday June 13th ===
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| Dennis DeLorme took a computer museum tour in California, and is willing to tell us about it. His main topic will be the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine Babbage difference engine]. He'll also talk about connecting your LCD to ____. Remember the 2005 LCD presentation and project? Yep, that one.
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| When: Thursday April 11th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
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| If this presentation runs short and weather permits, we'll go play some disc golf afterwards.
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| Here are Dennis' [http://k-lug.org/images/d/d7/Lcd_201306.pdf slides] on the LCD portion.
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| | === Outside Social: Saturday February 24th === |
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| === Social: Thursday May 23rd ===
| | It's supposed to be dry all week, there's no snow to fight with, the disc golf holes are present, and Saturday's forecast is for sunshine and a high of 46. So let's play disc golf! |
| 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 [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bear+Cave+Park,+Stewartville,+MN&hl=en&sll=46.44186,-93.36129&sspn=7.359657,13.688965&oq=bear+cave+park&hq=Bear+Cave+Park,+Stewartville,+MN&t=m&z=16 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.
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| | Meet outside the RCTC field house, 2 pm. Here is [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 a map]. |
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| Thursday May 23rd
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| 6:30 pm, with 5:30 pm dinner at Wendy's south by Kohl's
| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th === |
| | Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics. |
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| Bear Cave Park, Stewartville
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| === Lunch: Thursday May 16th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday, May 9th - FIRST Robotics Competition Demo at Byron High School ===
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| 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.
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| We will meet in the Byron High School Commons / Dining Hall at 6:30PM
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| 5 min Overview of FRC and Byron Robotics
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| 5 min Technical stuff on Bot
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| 5 min Lessons Learned
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| 5 min Mentor-ship Opportunities
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| 20-40 min Ultimate Ascent game
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| There will be a "driver station" and arena mock up setup.
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| That will allow a few of us to try our luck at scoring within the standard 2 minute period.
| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024 === |
| | | Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics. |
| The team only has two batteries so will probably run on last about 20 minutes or so.
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| 1887 2nd Ave NW, Byron, MN 55920
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| Enter through doors by the flagpole. Note there is a choir concert at 7pm in the Auditorium
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| === Non-workday social: Wednesday April 24th ===
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| Civic responsibility opportunity, participate in the Litter Bit Better campaign, geocache, and hang out with some K-LUGgers and geocachers.
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| 5:30 pm, Quarry Hill
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| http://coord.info/GC3D7D5
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| === Lunch: Thursday April 18th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Show off and Networking event: Saturday and Sunday, April 13-14th ===
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| 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!
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| Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 11:00 AM - 5pm Sunday, April 14, 2013 11am - 5:00 PM (CDT)
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| The Hack Factory (http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/hack-factory/)
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| 3119 E 26th St Minneapolis, MN 55406
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| More details and pre-order tix http://minnefaire.org/
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| Talk to Tim or to Matt Bruzek if you want to try to arrange anything as a group (carpooling, dinner, after-hours activities, etc).
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| We plan to bike the greenway and visit axe-man
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| === <strike>Social: Friday April 12th</strike> ===
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| <strike>2-5 pm: Rocket show, as part of the [http://ncral2013.com/schedule-of-events/ 67th Annual Convention of the North Central Region of the Astronomical League] . The map and directions to the launch site can be found [http://ncral2013.com/maps/ here].</strike>
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| Cancelled due to bad weather forecasts.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday April 11th=== | |
| Jim Walts, retired IBMer is about to launch a new web based business called QPonCompass.com
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| 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?)
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| The meeting will be this Thursday:
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| What: April K-lug/PCIG meeting QPonCompass.com - Jim Walts
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| When: Thursday April 11th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
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| More details about QPonCompass.com:
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Qpon Compass was born!
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| Always forward-thinking, we are already looking at how we can make Qpon Compass better!
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| === Social: Sunday March 24th ===
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| 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
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| 1 pm, Tina's house (address and directions via the email list)
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| === Lunch: Thursday March 21st ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: FIELD TRIP, Thursday March 14th ===
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| 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.
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| Pre-orderable kits:
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| 1) http://www.parallax.com/tabid/768/ProductID/832/Default.aspx for $7, a colored lights robot badge.<br>
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| 2) http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2131207_-1 for $8, a two option decision maker.<br>
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| 3) http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2136999_-1 for $11, Simon Says.<br>
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| We're meeting at the Toymakers hacker/maker space again. http://tymkrs.com/rabbithole/
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| 547 Northern Heights Dr NE
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| Rochester MN 55906
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| 6-9 pm
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| 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, <strike>up the steps, and ring the doorbell.</strike> into the open garage door, and into the house without needing to ring the doorbell.
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| Also, PCIG elections.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday February ''21st'' ===
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| Dean Johnson, on "How I Work". Slides are [http://k-lug.org/HowIWork here] or [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8U2owv7iPY8bHFuSENHNGFNdmM/edit?usp=sharing&pli=1 here].
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| 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.
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| Other agenda topics:<br>
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| -Our delayed K-LUG officer elections (president, vice president, treasurer) and PCIG nominations.<br>
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| -"How to solder" group kit orders, for March hands-on technical meeting. Please bring cash in exact change!<br>
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| 1) http://www.parallax.com/tabid/768/ProductID/832/Default.aspx for $7, a colored lights robot badge.<br>
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| 2) http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2131207_-1 for $8, a two option decision maker.<br>
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| 3) http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2136999_-1 for $11, Simon Says.<br>
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| -What else?
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| When: Thursday February 21st - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| === Lunch: Thursday February 21st ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Unofficial social: Thursday February 14th ===
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| 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.
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| === Social: Saturday February 2nd, 1 pm ===
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| Let's piggyback on Winterfest.
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| http://www.rochestermn.gov/departments/park/activities/winter/WinterFest/WinterFest_Calendar.asp
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| 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).
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| What: Horse drawn sleigh rides and bonfire, hot cocoa and cookies, plus free museum day at the History Center Museum.<br>
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| Where: [http://www.olmstedhistory.com/events/1111/sleigh-rides-and-free-museum-day/ The History Center of Olmsted County], 1195 West Circle Drive SW<br>
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| When: Saturday February 2nd, 1 pm<br>
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| Cost: free will donation, which goes to Rochester Special Olympics.
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| Unofficial: Thursday February 7th, Bacon Fest! $20. http://baconfestrochester.wordpress.com/ <br>
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| 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.<br>
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| Canadian Honker Event Center at the Ramada Hotel, 1517 16th St SW<br>
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| At the door: CASH ONLY<br>
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| 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.
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| === Social: Saturday, January 19th ===
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| 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.
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| Saturday January 19th<br>
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| 1 pm - lunch at Kingdom Buffet<br>
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| 3:20 pm - The Hobbit (2D) at Cinemagic<br>
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| Not the fastest route, but the most straight forward, if you're unfamiliar with either location: http://goo.gl/maps/jnGFw
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| 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.
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| Other movies being shown at approximately the same timeframe at Cinemagic:<br>
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| 3:00 - Parental Guidance (PG)<br>
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| 3:25 - A Haunted House (R)<br>
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| 3:40 - Zero Dark Thirty (R)<br>
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| 3:50 - Les Miserables (PG-13)<br>
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| (unfortunately this is a much shorter list than it had been last weekend, we lost ~1/2 the options)
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| Both Mayo and Think Bank have discounted movie ticket rates, but I think those are only valid on non-matinee priced movies.
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| === Lunch: Thursday January 17th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: FIELD TRIP, FRIDAY, January 11th, 2013 ===
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| 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/
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| 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.
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| Because of the rescheduling and the field trip, we'll put off officer elections until February.
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