New York City 2600

NYC2600 Meeting

Rob T Firefly — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:34:14 +0000

Who: Us, and hopefully you.

What: The NYC2600 meeting, Joseph Weizenbaum memorial edition.

When: Friday, March 5, 5:00 PM ~ 8:00 PM

Where: Citigroup Center, 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue

Why: To meet up, eat food, do stuff, and celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Homebrew Computer Club’s first meeting. Computer nerds gathering in public to hang out and chat about nerdy stuff; what a concept!

See you there!

Changing Facebook

Rob T Firefly — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:42:55 +0000

Sidepocket informs us that over on Facebook, the existing NYC2600 Alumni group was recently left without an admin. To remedy this and prevent similar occurrences in the future, Sidepocket has recreated NYC2600’s Facebook presence as a Fan Page, which allows for multiple admins as well as being easier to join and use.

So in technical terms, Facebook users are advised to ditch the old and busted and get in on the new hotness!

Interested users of Facebook and other social networks and online services are encouraged to check out our Internet Forums page, where you can find NYC2600 presences all over this great Internet of ours, or start new ones where needed.

Take out the trash, win a MacBook?

Rob T Firefly — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:33:38 +0000

Have you got old and useless junk that not even HAX can make useful again, just taking up space? Here’s a chance to free up that space for new and useful junk.

This Saturday, January 16, the Lower East Side Ecology Center and Tekserve are throwing another of their e-waste recycling events. Bring your old computers, printers, monitors, TVs, and other unwanted electronics to Tekserve on West 23rd St (between 6th and 7th aves) for recycling. In addition to the generally warm and fuzzy feeling associated with recycling in public, every participant gets a $25 coupon and a chance to win a new MacBook Air.

See Tekserve’s page about the event for details, and the full list of acceptable recyclables.

Time, Space, and Hackers

Rob T Firefly — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:07:46 +0000

Important note!

The first Friday of next month just so happens to fall upon January 1st, 2010; New Year’s Day. (For those of you keeping score, it’s been 11 years since the last time this happened, and it won’t happen again for another six.)

Of course, we don’t expect people to give up their New Year’s Day festivities and/or recuperation to come to the 2600 meeting. That being the case, we’ll be doing something extremely rare in the grand scheme of 2600 meetings. The official date for the meeting is being pushed forward a week, to the second Friday in January.

So, come out and enjoy the first 2600 meeting of the 2010s on Friday, January 8! Mark your calendars! Tell your friends! Update your tattoos!

And of course, we at NYC2600.net wish all of you and yours a wonderful holiday season, and a very happy and safe New Year.

We’ll see you in The Future!

Gobble.

Rob T Firefly — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:00:35 +0000

All of us here at NYC2600.net wish a very happy Thanksgiving to all of you and yours.

Eat food and celebrate stuff!

— Rob T Firefly and Grey Frequency