2010 Starts Slowly

All five of us who showed up at the 26 Jan 2010 meeting (including our hostess) had a great time watching one of us (who shall remain faceless) work and snacking on a frankly delightful array of goodies, starring a crockpot of chili/bean/cheese dip and corny chips, but including a tasty array of other stuffs to stuff our faces with. We did a great job watching the artist at work, and I'd recommend a repeat of that for any meeting.

Squeaking of which, we've decided to meet on Tuesday the 23rd from now on - or at least for a couple of months.

On Tuesday 23 Feb 2010, we'll meet (probably at Pam A's?) to do an as-yet-unspeechified project under Pam's watchful guidance. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's building our own unmanned stealth "surveillance" drones (aka bombers). More info as the time gets closer, but if you see 8-ft wings on special at Michael's, I'd suggest snapping up a pair (don't get two left wings! That would be silly).

After that, we'll meet on Tuesday the 23rd of March, when Betsey (still faceless after all these years) shall walk us through the deep moral quandary that is "Ahtist Trading Cahds" - 2.5" by 3.5" cards of various papers (watercolor, bond, gold leaf, pewter plate, etc.) that are decorated all over and offered up to other like-minded ahtists for trade and/or profit. This is a growing movement, and Ahtist Trading Posts are springing up all along the Post Road, up and down the Missy Mightissippi, and along the north side of route 66. And halfway along the east side of route 33. And every fourth mile along route 16.5. I can't divide beyond a single decimal, and that bit's used up already, so I'm stopping there. More ATC info as it comes to me, or as I make it up.

So, with the announcement of new projects and dates so far in advance, I hope that evabuddy will be mo able to attend and watch somebody work while we eat! I will no doubt be busy with the several hundred jobs I will get as a result of Barrack's new overemployment initiative, and yet I will still be there!

Fwd: Make a business cahd?

Young M*lio van O*rt poses the delicate question:

Are we supposed to be designing cards, or making them, and for whom? Ourselves? SANE?

As always, a great question, M*lio. The answers would be, IMJO (in my jumbled opinion):

Yes, maybe, you or others, maybe, and I don't see why not.

I just thought of making business cards that would inspire some as-yet-unknown Joe (or Joette) to take one look and say, "Dang, I'm going to jes hand that feller a passel of money if'n he kin do that kinda sh*t fer me!" And I didn't really have time to plan much before Tuesday, so was going to spend the time at the meeting, when I wasn't stuffing my face, noodling and doodling, and probably not doing much but prototyping. If anyone has a better plan or is more prepared, I'd gladly gawk appreciatively and applaud noisily (he wrote floraly) whilst I make my middlin' progress.

SANE cards would be fine, too - pick your own title (we need a Princess, Chromosomal Mechanic, Petrochemical Engineer, Etruscan Oenoculturist, Farfergnuger and Oberammerguy, at the very least. There may be other job postings at the SANE HR department that I'm unaware of.

Make a business cahd?

I follow Mike's tweets (Betsey' sweety tweets completely and upbeatly), and he sent this out - props to Mike, he's so trendy. But anyway, Inc.com has 11 business card ideas which were pretty neat (tho largely impractical in quantity) (http://www.inc.com/ss/10-most-creative-business-cards), but one thing to consider for a SANE project would be to design our own business cards... I rubber-stamped cards a while ago (was it part of a SANE project? maybe), but the supply is dwindling (slowly, because I got nobody to hand 'em to). Plus, what dam' business am I in?

We could stamp 'em, Gocco 'em (just when Leslie can't make it!), have a sheet of 'em printed at a printer's and cut, or carve 'em outa half-inch slabs of marble. Anybody?

Voting Kerfuffle

Due to a mixup in the SANE's Voting Registration Department, there was some confusion about the date to vote and the date of the meeting.

You should vote and have all appropriate angst about the results on Tuesday 19 Jan 2010.

You should attend the SANE meeting on Tuesday 26 Jan 2010. Angst will be optional and/or inappropriate.