Down in DC you simply must, must, must visit the National Air and Space Museum. It's part of the Smithsonian Institution, and it's geek paradise. Things that go zoom zoom through the air, on a grand scale. And astronaut ice cream in the gift shop. All Smithsonian museums are free. A+
About halfway between Baltimore and DC is the National Cryptologic Museum. It's part of the National Security Agency's campus in Fort Meade, MD. Find some geeky folks at the Air & Space Museum to drive you there, as sadly it's impossible to get there via public transit. You can also drive around the Fort a little bit and take in the scope of one of our country's most mysterious entities, but not too much. Admission is free! B+
In Baltimore there are a number of great places for geeks to go, the Museum of Industry (B+) and the Public Works Museum (B) are both fun, and the National Aquarium (B-, unless you can go when it's not crowded, then it's an A+) is in Baltimore too. Skip the Maryland Science Center (C)..it's okay if you can sneak in for free but it's not worth the price of admission. If you go to Baltimore on a first thursday of the month, most tourist attractions are free.
Also, I've always found it helpful to make contact with any geeky organizations you could align yourself with in the area in advance. If Linux is your thing, check http://www.tux.org in advance for LUGs in the area, make some contacts. You may be surprised how hospitable and helpful the locals can be!
I don't know the specifics, but the DVD version of the film supposedly will have an added 40 minutes of deleted footage put back into the movie (not added in as a 'deleted scenes feature', but actually incorporated into the film itself). So hang in there. Honestly, I'm not sure the film would have been better had they made it even 10 minutes longer for the theatrical release.
There seems to be an interesting mechanism which keeps these project management problems to a minimum in Open Source. While there usually exists some person or group in the capacity of "leader" or "committee", the management is really done more-or-less by consensus. If a lead developer or somebody starts to get their head in the clouds wrt adding neat-o features at the last minute, the others can usually bring him back to earth.
The same goes for release dates - at least in my observation, open-source software doesn't tend to get too far behind proposed schedules (as long as the developers aren't completely blindsided by a difficult problem, which happens in both the open- and closed-source worlds). Users of an open product start asking louder and more repeatedly, "When's the new release arriving??". This kind of ego-market pressure seems to work at least as well as financial-market pressure.
Maybe we'll have to write a separate article about this phenomenon...
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Funny; I've lived in Baltimore all my life, only set foot on the Hopkins campus a handful of times, and have never once been shot at.
Glad to hear you had such an exciting night, though; cheers!
A firefight? Can you explain? I've been a regular at Brewer's Art for years..I was there last night, in fact!
Down in DC you simply must, must, must visit the National Air and Space Museum. It's part of the Smithsonian Institution, and it's geek paradise. Things that go zoom zoom through the air, on a grand scale. And astronaut ice cream in the gift shop. All Smithsonian museums are free. A+
About halfway between Baltimore and DC is the National Cryptologic Museum. It's part of the National Security Agency's campus in Fort Meade, MD. Find some geeky folks at the Air & Space Museum to drive you there, as sadly it's impossible to get there via public transit. You can also drive around the Fort a little bit and take in the scope of one of our country's most mysterious entities, but not too much. Admission is free! B+
In Baltimore there are a number of great places for geeks to go, the Museum of Industry (B+) and the Public Works Museum (B) are both fun, and the National Aquarium (B-, unless you can go when it's not crowded, then it's an A+) is in Baltimore too. Skip the Maryland Science Center (C)..it's okay if you can sneak in for free but it's not worth the price of admission. If you go to Baltimore on a first thursday of the month, most tourist attractions are free.
Also, I've always found it helpful to make contact with any geeky organizations you could align yourself with in the area in advance. If Linux is your thing, check http://www.tux.org in advance for LUGs in the area, make some contacts. You may be surprised how hospitable and helpful the locals can be!
Bon voyage!
-Prote
A new macintosh purchased just two years ago is now out of style. Thanks, Steve.
I don't know the specifics, but the DVD version of the film supposedly will have an added 40 minutes of deleted footage put back into the movie (not added in as a 'deleted scenes feature', but actually incorporated into the film itself). So hang in there. Honestly, I'm not sure the film would have been better had they made it even 10 minutes longer for the theatrical release.
Does it come with a deed for the Brooklyn Bridge, too? *snrk*
-K
So it's up to you, brave intrepid AC, to post the HARD questions. :P
Oh, THAT html formatting button...
Long live the next generation of <a href="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/index-n.html">sh oddily-produced lowest bidder space hardware!</a>
There seems to be an interesting mechanism which keeps these project management problems to a minimum in Open Source. While there usually exists some person or group in the capacity of "leader" or "committee", the management is really done more-or-less by consensus. If a lead developer or somebody starts to get their head in the clouds wrt adding neat-o features at the last minute, the others can usually bring him back to earth.
The same goes for release dates - at least in my observation, open-source software doesn't tend to get too far behind proposed schedules (as long as the developers aren't completely blindsided by a difficult problem, which happens in both the open- and closed-source worlds). Users of an open product start asking louder and more repeatedly, "When's the new release arriving??". This kind of ego-market pressure seems to work at least as well as financial-market pressure.
Maybe we'll have to write a separate article about this phenomenon...
-kme