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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.
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.
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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 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
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