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Scenes From Bob Young's New Tech Circus
Chris Strider writes "Bob Young has left Red Hat, but he's still been keeping busy. I recently went to his new venture, the Lulu Tech Circus. I have to admit some of the stuff there was pretty cool, especially the robotics. On the other hand, some of it was pretty weird, like the electronic band with the alien heads.
Anyway, the local online TV station RTPTV.com put up some video scenes from the Circus if you want to watch it."
I'm saddened to see that at an event that is showing the lunatic fringe of high-tech and robotics, there is nothing more original than a first person shoot 'em up to play.
Jesus, I need to keep a closer watch on the news, I never heard he left!
1) wmv format files? *groan*
1a) Thanks, mplayer!
2) instructions: "view it with the Windows Media Player that's found on almost all PC's" *groan*
3) I got no sound with the video.
Wish I could have went to Lulu though.
Software Wars
Dear Slashdot,
From now on, could you just post hints and / or possibly clues to the location and content of the site, rather than actually linking to it? I think that having to find the site might deter every reader from hammering it's server at once. Then I could actually check the link out. Jinkies.
Thanks,
-Jason Strumfelds
Aslich, Texas
This is what you get when you let the geekiness hang out all over the place.
Is not your inner geek screaming out for freedom? Does your inner geek not yearn for rocket cars, megawatt lazers, and robots with shotgun attachments? Can your inner geek not hear, not just the calling for some good deathmatch, But deathmatch on a 52" plasma with a 500 watt 6 channel system. Yea, I say. No amount of legos, folding tables, and alien inspired freeform experimental music will satisfy the inner geek.
A spectacle must be spectacular.
Still, there's probably nothing better to do.
I was expecting so much more than just an apparently poorly attended fragfest with RC robots, techno bands, and fan driven gumbies.
Maybe it was just the videographer, but I doubt iy. The presentation of the circus seemed lame.
Where are the Gee-Wiz things? Virtual Reality, Biometrics, intelligent robots, etc.
With Circus in the name, at least they could have added pizzazz to the existing presentations. This looked more like a geek user group presentation.
This show has a good premise. We need to excite the youth and the community with technology. Present it in a way that non-geek people want to stay.
Hopefully the next show will be better.
Gator/Claria is Spyware.
The website linked to may require Windows Media Viewer, but if you had engaged your brain while reading the Slashdot article you would notice that it's not Lulu Tech Circuses website. It is in fact a TV station website *reporting* on Lulu Tech Circus.
Chris
I was very disappointed in the event. If you were interested in any of the speaking tracks it would have been worthwhile, however I didn't have a need for most of presentations.
There were more people there working Saturday afternoon than there were people in attendance.
This was only the first one so hopefully the shows will come around.
I checked my pirourities and they said 'you don't play darts outside' followed by 'if you go outside for the rest of the day, your boss will fire you'
All things in moderation; including moderation
I just watched the video, and aparrently what's known as a "computer show" has been renamed to a "Tech Circus". I'm sorry, but the presence of people dressed up in ridiculous suits, jugglers, and a square-shouldered man in drag does not make an event a 'circus'. Almost everything displayed in the video is openly available retail at many stores.
:)
A pretty amateurish video, for a pretty amateurish event. A good 30 second was devoted to people playing Unreal Tournament 2003 - how incredible. Narration of some sort would have definately made this a lot more interesting. At many stages it's unclear whether the robots are remote or ai-controlled.
One thing that was very cool was a robot climbing up a wall and what looked like looking for holes to put something into. (again, some sort of narration would be great)
I must say, I am a bit surprised to see this on Slashdot. Then again, Slashdot never really ceases to surprise me.
I was there too. I really had a good time, but IMO it was a little badly arranged. They had the FIRST robotics team right next to one of the, umm, lecture halls, and we couldn't understand a word of what the Pragmatic Programming dude had to say.
:-P
But overall it was pretty cool, definitely expensive though. If they work on the organization a bit and it comes back through here again, I'll probably go again.
Oh, ps, the Asian girl they had "introducing" people to the place was hot. Keep her around and I'll definitely come back
"Software is like sex; it's better when it's free." -Linus Torvalds
I was expecting much more. Turned out to be nothing more the a poorly organized Linux/Geek event, which for the most part was a fragfest, a bunch of tables for User Groups, some legos throw in some pits for the tykes, and a few more assorted 'specialized' events - robotics (which was the only really cool thing I saw), music - walk into a room where the volume is on 13 and some kid is wailing on a drum machine (headache).
What sucked most was the fact you could ONLY pay for all three days for a whopping $20. Frankly after I was there for an hour or so I didn't see a reason to come back. It would have been nice if he had a daily entry price for those that were not interested in attending the tech speeches, etc. Split the 3 day cost would have been a much more affordable $7/day.
At least according to this recent F'd Company post.
Yeah we have been living under a rock, since I looked at the Redhat management team and I did not find Bob Young....
When did this happen?
"You can't make a race horse of a pig"
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
Just in case people are undecided as to whether to download the video footage or not, I know that there's a pretty big demographic out there that would be interested in one thing - beowulf clusters. There's a few seconds of footage from a talk being given on that. Perhaps it was a local chapter of the support group meeting for an "Imagine A Beowulf Cluster Of <Foo>"(IABCOF).
A planet where apes evolved from men? Long live the apes.
that infects many that made their money young and retired. . . he doesn't know what to do with himself.
Rather than spending the next few years pissing away his money on ill considered ventures I'd like to suggest to him what many have found to be the cure for his ennui.
Golf.
KFG
like the electronic band with the alien heads/ www.spacemen-are-coming.com/
the band is called Spacemen, and they are pretty interesting to watch live, from what i've read they are a revolving group of artists, much like blue man group. thier site has lots of pictures of the costumes in action.
http://www.innervisionmusic.com/
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And where are the results of the (stuffed) Lulu Nominations???
The voting was, of course, worthless as it did no validity or duplicate checking (hence people with negative and much greater than 10 scores.)
Yes, the green man is cool - too bad the orange wasn't shaped like a horse.
Check out my pictures from the event (as I worked it).
BlackNova Traders
Me and my suitemates went to the tech circus, and explored alot on the first day. Lots of interesting stuff. But the majority of our time was spent playing UT2003. We met bob young in an interesting manner involving shattering smart mass with a hard cover copy of his book. We won some UT2003 shirts, and finally placed second in the team UT2003 tournament and won free copies of the game a week before it was officially released. Afterwards we stayed and helped clean up to get some staff tshirts, free pizza, and a few thousand feet of free CAT5
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