Bullseye TV - Electronics Experts Needed
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Carniemattt
Jan 26, 2011, 8:55:16 AM1/26/11
to London Hackspace, ru...@garrett.co.uk
Hello
My name’s Matt Haydock and I work for Bullseye Productions. We have
just been commissioned by Sky One to make a great new show
provisionally called 'Gadget Shop', an electronic, robotic,
mechanical, gadget show set in a high tech shop. I’m currently casting
to find an expert, or team of experts who would be interested in being
our team of experts who will be required to build and experiment with
outlandish, bespoke gadgets and groundbreaking, unique, electronic
inventions.
The show will be a heavily produced reality/documentary show set in
out fictional gadget shop. At the front of house we will have our
small retail team in a shop which will be swarming with gadgets from
Audio Visual equipment to i-phones, remote controlled good and
electronics, gadgets and robotics of all kinds. We will have customers
coming into the shop and discussing and purchasing high street gadgets
but the substance of the show will be the parts where customers
require extremely wild and bespoke gadgetry.
In these parts of the show the customers’ request will be sent to the
‘workshop’, an area run by our two or three experts who can design and
build anything.
It could be anything from a hover board to a waterproof TV on a
robotic arm or maybe someone will want their i-phone tripped out so
that it can start the engine on their car. They’ll be wacky inventions
which will need an expert to explain the best way to tackle the
problem before taking on the challenge and providing a finished
product.
What we are currently trying to find is that expert. Someone who can
take on any challenge in the world of electronics, robotics and
mechanics and be our version of the ‘Myth Busters’ guys.
On Wedenseday the 2nd of February, we will be at the London Hackspace
casting for the show. In the afternoon we have Proffesors, elecronic
experts and inventors coming from all over to audition as part of our
gadget team and in the morning we are hoping to hold auditions for
anyone who is acociated with the Hackspace. We ask anyone who is
ineterested to pop along with something they are working on or have
worked in and talk us through it in a sort of 'Dragons Den' style. We
will be filming a few pick ups for the pilot and hopefully we'll get
some good ideas as to who would like to be part of our gadget team. So
if you are a confident mech and tech head who is up for playing with
gadgets and feels they are capable of tackling all sorts of problems
using technical wizardry then please get in touch or turn up between
10:30 and midday on Wednesday.
It will be a lot of fun and it’s a great opportunity. If you are
interested in being a part of this project or have any information
that might help me find a suitable candidate then I’d love to hear
from you.
I’ve pasted the treatment below so you can find out more about the
show if I haven’t explained it very well.
Thanks and hope to see you soon
Matt
02031893508
matt.h...@bullseyetv.co.uk
The Format
This produced observational series takes us behind the scenes of our
real gadget store. The store is staffed by outlandish and big
characters who know their onions when it comes to consumer electronics
and gadgets...and we will follow their day to day dealings with real &
cast customers who are looking for the latest electronic wonders, from
the best cameras to the ultimate TV’s. (This is where we will get the
nuts and bolts of the consumer review and take out of any gadget show)
Alongside this everyday reality, we will follow stories of customers
who need something a little (or rather a lot) different. In each
episode we will feature several of these customers (cast by the
production team) who will visit the shop with a unique, weird or
totally extravagant need.
They will want a device so crazy that they can’t just pick it up of
the shelf.
It might be a machine that allows a young boy to remotely feed their
dog using Wi-Fi or perhaps a fish tank that revolves to reveal a home
cinema set up for the discerning teenage daughter of the home? Or
perhaps it’ a Dad who wants to give their son the ultimate car related
boys’ toy for his 18th Birthday and for the Gadget shop to come up
with something totally unique or a wife who wants to “prank” her golf
obsessed husband with the “buggy of doom”.
When faced with such an outlandish request, the Gadget staff will
inform the customer that although they don’t have it hand, they have
the capabilities to design, create and build it for them ‘out back’.
This is our cue to cut to “The Gadget Factory” our secret lab/workshop
(think Q’s testing centre from James Bond, the BatCave or the fantasy
reality of SpyKids all with a sprinkle of Willy Wonka) in reality a
set designed studio space where “real world” rules don’t apply.
Working here at the beck and call of the Gadget Shop staff is The
Gadget Production team will be a hand-picked group who are the best
specialists in their field (whether robotics, electronics, fight,
remote controls, software, special effects) – each will have their own
speciality – and between them they believe they can build
anything...We will also be able to call on the odd “Mad Professor” – a
genuine PhD or leading thinker in any given relevant area of science
who can add a bit more detail and information when and if needed.
The team will work to make the client’s dream a reality. We will
witness the process from conception to design through to installation;
using the latest robotics, electronics, computer programming...and a
vivid imagination. They will build prototypes, integrate gadgets,
construct machinery and do whatever it takes to create a fully
functioning, original device.
After they have built their new contraption they will either invite
the customer to come back to the shop to pick it up, or if necessary,
visit the client’s home to install it either way we will see it put to
use (and to the test) always leaving our customers (and viewers)
satisfied.
Matt Haydock
Development Research
Bullseye Productions
Entertaining. Effective. Original.
My name’s Matt Haydock and I work for Bullseye Productions. We have
just been commissioned by Sky One to make a great new show
provisionally called 'Gadget Shop', an electronic, robotic,
mechanical, gadget show set in a high tech shop. I’m currently casting
to find an expert, or team of experts who would be interested in being
our team of experts who will be required to build and experiment with
outlandish, bespoke gadgets and groundbreaking, unique, electronic
inventions.
The show will be a heavily produced reality/documentary show set in
out fictional gadget shop. At the front of house we will have our
small retail team in a shop which will be swarming with gadgets from
Audio Visual equipment to i-phones, remote controlled good and
electronics, gadgets and robotics of all kinds. We will have customers
coming into the shop and discussing and purchasing high street gadgets
but the substance of the show will be the parts where customers
require extremely wild and bespoke gadgetry.
In these parts of the show the customers’ request will be sent to the
‘workshop’, an area run by our two or three experts who can design and
build anything.
It could be anything from a hover board to a waterproof TV on a
robotic arm or maybe someone will want their i-phone tripped out so
that it can start the engine on their car. They’ll be wacky inventions
which will need an expert to explain the best way to tackle the
problem before taking on the challenge and providing a finished
product.
What we are currently trying to find is that expert. Someone who can
take on any challenge in the world of electronics, robotics and
mechanics and be our version of the ‘Myth Busters’ guys.
On Wedenseday the 2nd of February, we will be at the London Hackspace
casting for the show. In the afternoon we have Proffesors, elecronic
experts and inventors coming from all over to audition as part of our
gadget team and in the morning we are hoping to hold auditions for
anyone who is acociated with the Hackspace. We ask anyone who is
ineterested to pop along with something they are working on or have
worked in and talk us through it in a sort of 'Dragons Den' style. We
will be filming a few pick ups for the pilot and hopefully we'll get
some good ideas as to who would like to be part of our gadget team. So
if you are a confident mech and tech head who is up for playing with
gadgets and feels they are capable of tackling all sorts of problems
using technical wizardry then please get in touch or turn up between
10:30 and midday on Wednesday.
It will be a lot of fun and it’s a great opportunity. If you are
interested in being a part of this project or have any information
that might help me find a suitable candidate then I’d love to hear
from you.
I’ve pasted the treatment below so you can find out more about the
show if I haven’t explained it very well.
Thanks and hope to see you soon
Matt
02031893508
matt.h...@bullseyetv.co.uk
The Format
This produced observational series takes us behind the scenes of our
real gadget store. The store is staffed by outlandish and big
characters who know their onions when it comes to consumer electronics
and gadgets...and we will follow their day to day dealings with real &
cast customers who are looking for the latest electronic wonders, from
the best cameras to the ultimate TV’s. (This is where we will get the
nuts and bolts of the consumer review and take out of any gadget show)
Alongside this everyday reality, we will follow stories of customers
who need something a little (or rather a lot) different. In each
episode we will feature several of these customers (cast by the
production team) who will visit the shop with a unique, weird or
totally extravagant need.
They will want a device so crazy that they can’t just pick it up of
the shelf.
It might be a machine that allows a young boy to remotely feed their
dog using Wi-Fi or perhaps a fish tank that revolves to reveal a home
cinema set up for the discerning teenage daughter of the home? Or
perhaps it’ a Dad who wants to give their son the ultimate car related
boys’ toy for his 18th Birthday and for the Gadget shop to come up
with something totally unique or a wife who wants to “prank” her golf
obsessed husband with the “buggy of doom”.
When faced with such an outlandish request, the Gadget staff will
inform the customer that although they don’t have it hand, they have
the capabilities to design, create and build it for them ‘out back’.
This is our cue to cut to “The Gadget Factory” our secret lab/workshop
(think Q’s testing centre from James Bond, the BatCave or the fantasy
reality of SpyKids all with a sprinkle of Willy Wonka) in reality a
set designed studio space where “real world” rules don’t apply.
Working here at the beck and call of the Gadget Shop staff is The
Gadget Production team will be a hand-picked group who are the best
specialists in their field (whether robotics, electronics, fight,
remote controls, software, special effects) – each will have their own
speciality – and between them they believe they can build
anything...We will also be able to call on the odd “Mad Professor” – a
genuine PhD or leading thinker in any given relevant area of science
who can add a bit more detail and information when and if needed.
The team will work to make the client’s dream a reality. We will
witness the process from conception to design through to installation;
using the latest robotics, electronics, computer programming...and a
vivid imagination. They will build prototypes, integrate gadgets,
construct machinery and do whatever it takes to create a fully
functioning, original device.
After they have built their new contraption they will either invite
the customer to come back to the shop to pick it up, or if necessary,
visit the client’s home to install it either way we will see it put to
use (and to the test) always leaving our customers (and viewers)
satisfied.
Matt Haydock
Development Research
Bullseye Productions
Entertaining. Effective. Original.
Russ Garrett
Jan 26, 2011, 9:35:46 AM1/26/11
to London Hackspace
Just to note that this isn't spam and that these guys will be using
the workshop area for filming during the day next Wednesday. It sounds
fairly interesting.
the workshop area for filming during the day next Wednesday. It sounds
fairly interesting.
Russ
On 26 January 2011 13:55, Carniemattt <carni...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello
>
> My name’s Matt Haydock and I work for Bullseye Productions.
> [...]
--
Russ Garrett
ru...@garrett.co.uk
Tom Scott
Feb 11, 2011, 7:46:23 PM2/11/11
to london-hack-space
Just a quick follow-up to this for everyone: the team at Bullseye TV have asked me if I can film one end of a video call in the workshop today (Saturday) as a pick-up shot for the pilot. Probably late morning or early afternoon.
It'll be a case of "hurry up and wait" on my end, but it shouldn't cause any disruption if folks are working - I'll have a camera and laptop set up but that's all, nothing fancy. Apologies if I have to ask folks to stop hammering for a few minutes while the actual call happens, though :)
-- Tom
It'll be a case of "hurry up and wait" on my end, but it shouldn't cause any disruption if folks are working - I'll have a camera and laptop set up but that's all, nothing fancy. Apologies if I have to ask folks to stop hammering for a few minutes while the actual call happens, though :)
-- Tom
Charles Yarnold
Feb 11, 2011, 7:49:57 PM2/11/11
to london-h...@googlegroups.com
Trolololololol
That is all.
Tom Scott
Feb 11, 2011, 7:52:39 PM2/11/11
to london-hack-space
If you feel like wearing a lab coat and goggles and detonating some well-timed flash cotton behind me, just let me know.
(In all seriousness, that would be awesome, but they've got about half an hour on their end to try and pull off something very complicated. Please be nice.)
-- Tom
(In all seriousness, that would be awesome, but they've got about half an hour on their end to try and pull off something very complicated. Please be nice.)
-- Tom
l boaz
Feb 12, 2011, 2:46:51 AM2/12/11
to london-h...@googlegroups.com
hey i want to unsubscribe from this blog pls help and guide me
--
$#@/0M -
Tom Scott
Feb 12, 2011, 4:18:35 AM2/12/11
to london-hack-space
It is 9am on a Saturday morning, and I am grumpy.
I shouldn't be awake at this hour; after several late nights working on a project, I should be getting some rest. I am not doing that; I'm awake so that, in a little while, I can make it over to London Hackspace to help someone - the TV team I mentioned in my email - with a project they're working on. And so, it is 9am on a Saturday morning, and I am grumpy.
Your email was the only message I received this quiet Saturday morning. It's an email that will have made a lot of the members of this mailing list angry. Some of them might try to mock you, like they did last time you asked this.
Normally, I'd try to help someone who's having trouble understanding the internet. I'd drop a quiet message over in private, explaining what they're having trouble with and telling them how to fix it. But the problem is, you clearly understand the internet. Your Facebook page says you have a BE from the CSI Institute of Technology, Thovalai - and that was four years ago. You didn't send a panicked message, like someone who was new to the web would; it wasn't "how do I stop these emails?!" or the angry "please stop spamming me!".
Instead, you said "pls help and guide me".
Now, that's part of what we do here. London Hackspace - that's the mailing list you've accidentally joined, by the way - is a place to share knowledge, among many other things. If someone asks for help, we generally provide it. But there's a two-way arrangement implied there: we won't do your work for you. We'll teach you. We'll help make it. But we won't just do it all while you sit back and don't even try.
And that's the trouble, "cute...@gmail.com". You haven't even tried.
If you typed this group's email address into Google, the page you need is the very first result. Even "london hack space unsubscribe" will get you there after a couple of clicks. Even just typing "london-hack-space" - the phrase that's in the subject line of every one of these emails - will show you what you need on the first page of results. As well as that, you use Gmail; if you'd hit the 'Report spam' button, a link would have appeared saying that this is a mailing list, and that Google can unsubscribe you automatically.
But despite all that, here you are, asking for help and guidance.
Perhaps this is more difficult for you if English is not your first language. Your Facebook page says you're from Bangalore, after all; it might be that you're not sure what's going on, and don't understand the replies you've had. But your university appears to teach in English - and more than that, Google and Google Groups have translated their entire interface into your native language just to make it easier.
The path has been laid but you refuse to walk it.
I was about to leave it there: I'd have sent you the link you need, and thought no more of it. But there was a part of my brain that wouldn't quite accept doing that, and then I realised why: I've been doing the same thing.
I've been a member of Hackspace for months now, and I've been coming to the public nights for more than a year. And yet I've always protested that I'm cackhanded with electronics; that software's my speciality and that, while I can hack together great things in code and online, it all falls apart when I try to make something physical. And that's true.
But I haven't tried.
I've done the same as you: I've asked others to do things for me, occasionally, but mainly I just haven't tried and I've let my ideas stay in my head. I'm never going to have the incredible hardware skills that a lot of the members of this space have - I'd need the lifetime of experience that I put into software instead - but I should at least be able to handle simple things by now.
So thank you, L Boaz. When I next see Earthshine, I'm going to buy an Arduino off him. Then I'm going to sit down and start to learn how it works. I might make something wonderful. More likely, I'll let the magic smoke out of it. But here's the important thing: I'll have tried.
The link you need is http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/subscribe . Good luck with not trying.
-- Tom
I shouldn't be awake at this hour; after several late nights working on a project, I should be getting some rest. I am not doing that; I'm awake so that, in a little while, I can make it over to London Hackspace to help someone - the TV team I mentioned in my email - with a project they're working on. And so, it is 9am on a Saturday morning, and I am grumpy.
Your email was the only message I received this quiet Saturday morning. It's an email that will have made a lot of the members of this mailing list angry. Some of them might try to mock you, like they did last time you asked this.
Normally, I'd try to help someone who's having trouble understanding the internet. I'd drop a quiet message over in private, explaining what they're having trouble with and telling them how to fix it. But the problem is, you clearly understand the internet. Your Facebook page says you have a BE from the CSI Institute of Technology, Thovalai - and that was four years ago. You didn't send a panicked message, like someone who was new to the web would; it wasn't "how do I stop these emails?!" or the angry "please stop spamming me!".
Instead, you said "pls help and guide me".
Now, that's part of what we do here. London Hackspace - that's the mailing list you've accidentally joined, by the way - is a place to share knowledge, among many other things. If someone asks for help, we generally provide it. But there's a two-way arrangement implied there: we won't do your work for you. We'll teach you. We'll help make it. But we won't just do it all while you sit back and don't even try.
And that's the trouble, "cute...@gmail.com". You haven't even tried.
If you typed this group's email address into Google, the page you need is the very first result. Even "london hack space unsubscribe" will get you there after a couple of clicks. Even just typing "london-hack-space" - the phrase that's in the subject line of every one of these emails - will show you what you need on the first page of results. As well as that, you use Gmail; if you'd hit the 'Report spam' button, a link would have appeared saying that this is a mailing list, and that Google can unsubscribe you automatically.
But despite all that, here you are, asking for help and guidance.
Perhaps this is more difficult for you if English is not your first language. Your Facebook page says you're from Bangalore, after all; it might be that you're not sure what's going on, and don't understand the replies you've had. But your university appears to teach in English - and more than that, Google and Google Groups have translated their entire interface into your native language just to make it easier.
The path has been laid but you refuse to walk it.
I was about to leave it there: I'd have sent you the link you need, and thought no more of it. But there was a part of my brain that wouldn't quite accept doing that, and then I realised why: I've been doing the same thing.
I've been a member of Hackspace for months now, and I've been coming to the public nights for more than a year. And yet I've always protested that I'm cackhanded with electronics; that software's my speciality and that, while I can hack together great things in code and online, it all falls apart when I try to make something physical. And that's true.
But I haven't tried.
I've done the same as you: I've asked others to do things for me, occasionally, but mainly I just haven't tried and I've let my ideas stay in my head. I'm never going to have the incredible hardware skills that a lot of the members of this space have - I'd need the lifetime of experience that I put into software instead - but I should at least be able to handle simple things by now.
So thank you, L Boaz. When I next see Earthshine, I'm going to buy an Arduino off him. Then I'm going to sit down and start to learn how it works. I might make something wonderful. More likely, I'll let the magic smoke out of it. But here's the important thing: I'll have tried.
The link you need is http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/subscribe . Good luck with not trying.
-- Tom
Errant
Feb 12, 2011, 4:58:27 AM2/12/11
to London Hackspace
Three cheers.
> And that's the trouble, "cuteb...@gmail.com". You haven't even tried.
> not trying.
>
> -- Tom
>
> > --
>
> > $#@/0M -
>
> If you typed this group's email address into Google, the page you need is
> the very first result. Even "london hack space unsubscribe" will get you
> there after a couple of clicks. Even just typing "london-hack-space" - the
> phrase that's in the subject line of every one of these emails - will show
> you what you need on the first page of results. As well as that, you use
> Gmail; if you'd hit the 'Report spam' button, a link would have appeared
> saying that this is a mailing list, and that Google can unsubscribe you
> automatically.
>
> But despite all that, here you are, asking for help and guidance.
>
> Perhaps this is more difficult for you if English is not your first
> language. Your Facebook page says you're from Bangalore, after all; it might
> be that you're not sure what's going on, and don't understand the replies
> you've had. But your university appears to teach in English - and more than
> that, Google and Google Groups have translated their entire interface into
> your native language just to make it easier.
>
> *The path has been laid but you refuse to walk it.*
> If you typed this group's email address into Google, the page you need is
> the very first result. Even "london hack space unsubscribe" will get you
> there after a couple of clicks. Even just typing "london-hack-space" - the
> phrase that's in the subject line of every one of these emails - will show
> you what you need on the first page of results. As well as that, you use
> Gmail; if you'd hit the 'Report spam' button, a link would have appeared
> saying that this is a mailing list, and that Google can unsubscribe you
> automatically.
>
> But despite all that, here you are, asking for help and guidance.
>
> Perhaps this is more difficult for you if English is not your first
> language. Your Facebook page says you're from Bangalore, after all; it might
> be that you're not sure what's going on, and don't understand the replies
> you've had. But your university appears to teach in English - and more than
> that, Google and Google Groups have translated their entire interface into
> your native language just to make it easier.
>
>
> I was about to leave it there: I'd have sent you the link you need, and
> thought no more of it. But there was a part of my brain that wouldn't quite
> accept doing that, and then I realised why: I've been doing the same thing.
>
> I've been a member of Hackspace for months now, and I've been coming to the
> public nights for more than a year. And yet I've always protested that I'm
> cackhanded with electronics; that software's my speciality and that, while I
> can hack together great things in code and online, it all falls apart when I
> try to make something physical. And that's true.
>
> But I haven't tried.
>
> I've done the same as you: I've asked others to do things for me,
> occasionally, but mainly I just haven't tried and I've let my ideas stay in
> my head. I'm never going to have the incredible hardware skills that a lot
> of the members of this space have - I'd need the lifetime of experience that
> I put into software instead - but I should at least be able to handle simple
> things by now.
>
> So thank you, L Boaz. When I next see Earthshine, I'm going to buy an
> Arduino off him. Then I'm going to sit down and start to learn how it works.
> I might make something wonderful. More likely, I'll let the magic smoke out
> of it. But here's the important thing: I'll have tried.
>
> The link you need ishttp://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/subscribe. Good luck with
> I was about to leave it there: I'd have sent you the link you need, and
> thought no more of it. But there was a part of my brain that wouldn't quite
> accept doing that, and then I realised why: I've been doing the same thing.
>
> I've been a member of Hackspace for months now, and I've been coming to the
> public nights for more than a year. And yet I've always protested that I'm
> cackhanded with electronics; that software's my speciality and that, while I
> can hack together great things in code and online, it all falls apart when I
> try to make something physical. And that's true.
>
> But I haven't tried.
>
> I've done the same as you: I've asked others to do things for me,
> occasionally, but mainly I just haven't tried and I've let my ideas stay in
> my head. I'm never going to have the incredible hardware skills that a lot
> of the members of this space have - I'd need the lifetime of experience that
> I put into software instead - but I should at least be able to handle simple
> things by now.
>
> So thank you, L Boaz. When I next see Earthshine, I'm going to buy an
> Arduino off him. Then I'm going to sit down and start to learn how it works.
> I might make something wonderful. More likely, I'll let the magic smoke out
> of it. But here's the important thing: I'll have tried.
>
> not trying.
>
> -- Tom
>
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 07:46, l boaz <cuteb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hey i want to unsubscribe from this blog pls help and guide me
>
> > On 2/12/11, Tom Scott <t...@tomscott.com> wrote:
> > > If you feel like wearing a lab coat and goggles and detonating some
> > > well-timed flash cotton behind me, just let me know.
>
> > > (In all seriousness, that would be awesome, but they've got about half an
> > > hour on their end to try and pull off something very complicated. Please
> > be
> > > nice.)
>
> > > -- Tom
>
> > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 00:49, Charles Yarnold
> > > <charlesyarn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 07:46, l boaz <cuteb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hey i want to unsubscribe from this blog pls help and guide me
>
> > On 2/12/11, Tom Scott <t...@tomscott.com> wrote:
> > > If you feel like wearing a lab coat and goggles and detonating some
> > > well-timed flash cotton behind me, just let me know.
>
> > > (In all seriousness, that would be awesome, but they've got about half an
> > > hour on their end to try and pull off something very complicated. Please
> > be
> > > nice.)
>
> > > -- Tom
>
> > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 00:49, Charles Yarnold
>
> > >> Trolololololol
>
> > >> That is all.
>
> > >> On 12 February 2011 00:46, Tom Scott <t...@tomscott.com> wrote:
>
> > >>> Just a quick follow-up to this for everyone: the team at Bullseye TV
> > have
> > >>> asked me if I can film one end of a video call in the workshop today
> > >>> (Saturday) as a pick-up shot for the pilot. Probably late morning or
> > >>> early
> > >>> afternoon.
>
> > >>> It'll be a case of "hurry up and wait" on my end, but it shouldn't
> > cause
> > >>> any disruption if folks are working - I'll have a camera and laptop set
> > >>> up
> > >>> but that's all, nothing fancy. Apologies if I have to ask folks to stop
> > >>> hammering for a few minutes while the actual call happens, though :)
>
> > >>> -- Tom
>
> > >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 14:35, Russ Garrett <r...@garrett.co.uk>
> > >> Trolololololol
>
> > >> That is all.
>
> > >> On 12 February 2011 00:46, Tom Scott <t...@tomscott.com> wrote:
>
> > >>> Just a quick follow-up to this for everyone: the team at Bullseye TV
> > have
> > >>> asked me if I can film one end of a video call in the workshop today
> > >>> (Saturday) as a pick-up shot for the pilot. Probably late morning or
> > >>> early
> > >>> afternoon.
>
> > >>> It'll be a case of "hurry up and wait" on my end, but it shouldn't
> > cause
> > >>> any disruption if folks are working - I'll have a camera and laptop set
> > >>> up
> > >>> but that's all, nothing fancy. Apologies if I have to ask folks to stop
> > >>> hammering for a few minutes while the actual call happens, though :)
>
> > >>> -- Tom
>
> > wrote:
>
> > >>>> Just to note that this isn't spam and that these guys will be using
> > >>>> the workshop area for filming during the day next Wednesday. It sounds
> > >>>> fairly interesting.
>
> > >>>> Russ
>
> > >>>> On 26 January 2011 13:55, Carniemattt <carniema...@hotmail.co.uk>
>
> > >>>> Just to note that this isn't spam and that these guys will be using
> > >>>> the workshop area for filming during the day next Wednesday. It sounds
> > >>>> fairly interesting.
>
> > >>>> Russ
>
> > wrote:
> > >>>> > Hello
>
> > >>>> > My name’s Matt Haydock and I work for Bullseye Productions.
> > >>>> > [...]
>
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> Russ Garrett
> > >>>> r...@garrett.co.uk
> > >>>> > Hello
>
> > >>>> > My name’s Matt Haydock and I work for Bullseye Productions.
> > >>>> > [...]
>
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> Russ Garrett
>
> > --
>
> > $#@/0M -
Earthshine
Feb 12, 2011, 5:06:22 AM2/12/11
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It's not often I get a good chuckle on a Saturday morning (not since
Tiswaz was aired anyway).
I salute you Sir.
Tiswaz was aired anyway).
I salute you Sir.
Lester Hawksby
Feb 12, 2011, 5:16:09 AM2/12/11
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That was beautiful.
> *The path has been laid but you refuse to walk it.*
Matte
Feb 12, 2011, 5:36:16 AM2/12/11
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Sam Cook
Feb 12, 2011, 5:47:38 AM2/12/11
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wow....
it's 1945 here and I'm still in this sodding concrete dungeon (well nuclear research facility imagine half-life but less exciting) and this really cheered me up
S
clare greenhalgh
Feb 12, 2011, 7:14:26 AM2/12/11
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That was outstanding as a reply Tom. I also can't believe he doesn't know how to stop it - nor do I understand why he cannot grasp muting conversations with gmail (I will never forget how to do that!).
Have a great weekend to follow that - you certainly deserve it!
--
dannystaple
Feb 12, 2011, 3:58:40 PM2/12/11
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Tom,
Excellently well put!
Perhaps what this chap needs is an lmgtf link:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=london+hackspace+mailing+list&l=1
Danny-orion
> And that's the trouble, "cuteb...@gmail.com". You haven't even tried.
>
> > --
>
> > $#@/0M -
Excellently well put!
Perhaps what this chap needs is an lmgtf link:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=london+hackspace+mailing+list&l=1
Danny-orion
>
> If you typed this group's email address into Google, the page you need is
> the very first result. Even "london hack space unsubscribe" will get you
> there after a couple of clicks. Even just typing "london-hack-space" - the
> phrase that's in the subject line of every one of these emails - will show
> you what you need on the first page of results. As well as that, you use
> Gmail; if you'd hit the 'Report spam' button, a link would have appeared
> saying that this is a mailing list, and that Google can unsubscribe you
> automatically.
>
> But despite all that, here you are, asking for help and guidance.
>
> Perhaps this is more difficult for you if English is not your first
> language. Your Facebook page says you're from Bangalore, after all; it might
> be that you're not sure what's going on, and don't understand the replies
> you've had. But your university appears to teach in English - and more than
> that, Google and Google Groups have translated their entire interface into
> your native language just to make it easier.
>
> *The path has been laid but you refuse to walk it.*
> If you typed this group's email address into Google, the page you need is
> the very first result. Even "london hack space unsubscribe" will get you
> there after a couple of clicks. Even just typing "london-hack-space" - the
> phrase that's in the subject line of every one of these emails - will show
> you what you need on the first page of results. As well as that, you use
> Gmail; if you'd hit the 'Report spam' button, a link would have appeared
> saying that this is a mailing list, and that Google can unsubscribe you
> automatically.
>
> But despite all that, here you are, asking for help and guidance.
>
> Perhaps this is more difficult for you if English is not your first
> language. Your Facebook page says you're from Bangalore, after all; it might
> be that you're not sure what's going on, and don't understand the replies
> you've had. But your university appears to teach in English - and more than
> that, Google and Google Groups have translated their entire interface into
> your native language just to make it easier.
>
>
> I was about to leave it there: I'd have sent you the link you need, and
> thought no more of it. But there was a part of my brain that wouldn't quite
> accept doing that, and then I realised why: I've been doing the same thing.
>
> I've been a member of Hackspace for months now, and I've been coming to the
> public nights for more than a year. And yet I've always protested that I'm
> cackhanded with electronics; that software's my speciality and that, while I
> can hack together great things in code and online, it all falls apart when I
> try to make something physical. And that's true.
>
> But I haven't tried.
>
> I've done the same as you: I've asked others to do things for me,
> occasionally, but mainly I just haven't tried and I've let my ideas stay in
> my head. I'm never going to have the incredible hardware skills that a lot
> of the members of this space have - I'd need the lifetime of experience that
> I put into software instead - but I should at least be able to handle simple
> things by now.
>
> So thank you, L Boaz. When I next see Earthshine, I'm going to buy an
> Arduino off him. Then I'm going to sit down and start to learn how it works.
> I might make something wonderful. More likely, I'll let the magic smoke out
> of it. But here's the important thing: I'll have tried.
>
> The link you need ishttp://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/subscribe. Good luck with
> I was about to leave it there: I'd have sent you the link you need, and
> thought no more of it. But there was a part of my brain that wouldn't quite
> accept doing that, and then I realised why: I've been doing the same thing.
>
> I've been a member of Hackspace for months now, and I've been coming to the
> public nights for more than a year. And yet I've always protested that I'm
> cackhanded with electronics; that software's my speciality and that, while I
> can hack together great things in code and online, it all falls apart when I
> try to make something physical. And that's true.
>
> But I haven't tried.
>
> I've done the same as you: I've asked others to do things for me,
> occasionally, but mainly I just haven't tried and I've let my ideas stay in
> my head. I'm never going to have the incredible hardware skills that a lot
> of the members of this space have - I'd need the lifetime of experience that
> I put into software instead - but I should at least be able to handle simple
> things by now.
>
> So thank you, L Boaz. When I next see Earthshine, I'm going to buy an
> Arduino off him. Then I'm going to sit down and start to learn how it works.
> I might make something wonderful. More likely, I'll let the magic smoke out
> of it. But here's the important thing: I'll have tried.
>
> not trying.
>
> -- Tom
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 07:46, l boaz <cuteb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hey i want to unsubscribe from this blog pls help and guide me
>
> > On 2/12/11, Tom Scott <t...@tomscott.com> wrote:
> > > If you feel like wearing a lab coat and goggles and detonating some
> > > well-timed flash cotton behind me, just let me know.
>
> > > (In all seriousness, that would be awesome, but they've got about half an
> > > hour on their end to try and pull off something very complicated. Please
> > be
> > > nice.)
>
> > > -- Tom
>
> > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 00:49, Charles Yarnold
> > > <charlesyarn...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> -- Tom
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 07:46, l boaz <cuteb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hey i want to unsubscribe from this blog pls help and guide me
>
> > On 2/12/11, Tom Scott <t...@tomscott.com> wrote:
> > > If you feel like wearing a lab coat and goggles and detonating some
> > > well-timed flash cotton behind me, just let me know.
>
> > > (In all seriousness, that would be awesome, but they've got about half an
> > > hour on their end to try and pull off something very complicated. Please
> > be
> > > nice.)
>
> > > -- Tom
>
> > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 00:49, Charles Yarnold
>
> > >> Trolololololol
>
> > >> That is all.
>
> > >> On 12 February 2011 00:46, Tom Scott <t...@tomscott.com> wrote:
>
> > >>> Just a quick follow-up to this for everyone: the team at Bullseye TV
> > have
> > >>> asked me if I can film one end of a video call in the workshop today
> > >>> (Saturday) as a pick-up shot for the pilot. Probably late morning or
> > >>> early
> > >>> afternoon.
>
> > >>> It'll be a case of "hurry up and wait" on my end, but it shouldn't
> > cause
> > >>> any disruption if folks are working - I'll have a camera and laptop set
> > >>> up
> > >>> but that's all, nothing fancy. Apologies if I have to ask folks to stop
> > >>> hammering for a few minutes while the actual call happens, though :)
>
> > >>> -- Tom
>
> > >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 14:35, Russ Garrett <r...@garrett.co.uk>
> > >> Trolololololol
>
> > >> That is all.
>
> > >> On 12 February 2011 00:46, Tom Scott <t...@tomscott.com> wrote:
>
> > >>> Just a quick follow-up to this for everyone: the team at Bullseye TV
> > have
> > >>> asked me if I can film one end of a video call in the workshop today
> > >>> (Saturday) as a pick-up shot for the pilot. Probably late morning or
> > >>> early
> > >>> afternoon.
>
> > >>> It'll be a case of "hurry up and wait" on my end, but it shouldn't
> > cause
> > >>> any disruption if folks are working - I'll have a camera and laptop set
> > >>> up
> > >>> but that's all, nothing fancy. Apologies if I have to ask folks to stop
> > >>> hammering for a few minutes while the actual call happens, though :)
>
> > >>> -- Tom
>
> > wrote:
>
> > >>>> Just to note that this isn't spam and that these guys will be using
> > >>>> the workshop area for filming during the day next Wednesday. It sounds
> > >>>> fairly interesting.
>
> > >>>> Russ
>
> > >>>> On 26 January 2011 13:55, Carniemattt <carniema...@hotmail.co.uk>
>
> > >>>> Just to note that this isn't spam and that these guys will be using
> > >>>> the workshop area for filming during the day next Wednesday. It sounds
> > >>>> fairly interesting.
>
> > >>>> Russ
>
> > wrote:
> > >>>> > Hello
>
> > >>>> > My name’s Matt Haydock and I work for Bullseye Productions.
> > >>>> > [...]
>
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> Russ Garrett
> > >>>> r...@garrett.co.uk
> > >>>> > Hello
>
> > >>>> > My name’s Matt Haydock and I work for Bullseye Productions.
> > >>>> > [...]
>
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> Russ Garrett
>
> > --
>
> > $#@/0M -
Katie Sutton
Feb 13, 2011, 9:59:55 PM2/13/11
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On 12 February 2011 10:36, Matte <the.cha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> well done sir,well done, that put a smile on my face.
> well done sir,well done, that put a smile on my face.
Ditto :)
--
Katie Sutton
http://tajasel.org
"The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about
it." ~ William Gibson
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