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Martin

Not that I know of.

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Martin

How thick's the chain? A pair of bolt cutters will most likely do the trick.

CD decks would be neat to have but how much do you think they'd actually get used? Would probably cost something like 400-500 quid for a decent pair.

Martin

It could be a really quick and simple fix. Worth at least getting it looked at.

Martin

Do we think the previous failure was faulty glass or is that just what happens to a display fridge when people lean on it for months as is inevitable with one in that position really?

Martin

Just to clarify I'm mentioning that to Andy in case it's useful to him, not to say that there shouldn't be forest ones. Though I think some thought needs to go into how a workshop will fit in to the local picture alongside the bike station, and if free how to keep it sustainable and not abused. Grae...

Martin

Andy, the bike station run a fix-your-own-bike thing on wednesdays and saturdays, 3 quid an hour for a stand and tools and grease and expert advice.

Martin

How about painting it to look like it's covered in shit?

Like trampled soil with dead plants and mud running down it and the odd stray twig or bit of garbage or used condom.

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It has been pointed out to me that all-black stairs can be considered a safety hazard - they should have some lighter shade on the edge of the step at least so you can see them easily.

Martin

I don't see any reason calling something a "manifesto" would affect its status under copyright law. However, since (I would have thought) manifestos are generally things that the authors want to see as widely distributed as possible, there might exist statements in or accompanying them which permit ...

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There should be a sign in the kitchen facing the vollies about all the shit people could possibly ask about.

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Fix that link: http://www.aecalendar.com/

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A handful of photos from the launch:

http://www.23hq.com/photogroup/forest/tag/golden%20hour

Martin

I was just over there for the CCC camp! Will be back in December for the congress. Terminal is just a window running your shell, the program that takes commands and runs them. If you run 'perl' from there, that's your interpreter. If you have a script you want to run, saved in a file, 'perl <filenam...

Martin

The Llama Book is a good introduction. I have a copy around somewhere, will have a look.[/url]

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I get back to Edinburgh on Monday morning, can do any night shift that evening.

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At least as of last night, there's no lock on the left hand balcony door anyway.

Martin

I think the first one was way best.

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Alex - still want me to put any of these on 23hq?

Martin

Oh fuck yes.

Martin

I'd like to keep my photos under my own 23hq account, so let me know which ones you want and I'll post them myself.

Martin

Eh, who turned off HTML and editing? http://void.printf.net/~martin/photos/BoxwarsBegan/ http://void.printf.net/~martin/photos/BoxwarsBegan/.slide_dsc_3510.jpg http://void.printf.net/~martin/photos/BoxwarsBegan/.slide_dsc_3514.jpg http://void.printf.net/~martin/photos/BoxwarsBegan/.slide_dsc_3570.jp...

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Photos are here:

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I will bring my DSLR and probably something to shoot video on too. May not be able to stay till the end but should still be able to get plenty of stuff.

Martin

I was at the 2003 camp and will be going this year too.

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Does this need user accounts for regular users? Does it need to be integrated with the BB? Or is it just a standalone thing?

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It's a pretty straightforward job.

Martin

How about pasting up that tirade against MySpace from CIA Nights a while back?

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do it.

Martin

Hmm, that's a shame. I guess on Facebook it would need to be a group rather than a user account. It could be less like an official presence maybe then, more like an "I hang out in the Forest Cafe" group.

Martin

Or £20 for a simpler analogue one.

Martin

We could get a noise meter for the cafe for £49 and agree a real volume limit, rather than bickering about who thought what was too loud.

Martin

But I should add that I agree it shouldn't become second-rate publicity. If the blog posts are crap, delete them. Keep the presence minimal, enough that people can see at a glance what forest is, how they can play here, and big fat link to real website.

Martin

I think it's nice to keep some sort of myspace presence because of the number of bands and other artists who use it. It's cool to see all the great people who play here linked there. As stands it prominently directs people to the website, which is fine. It takes no effort to leave it there and who k...

Martin

10dB = Falling leaf 140dB = Jet taking off so fourteen leaves falling at once is as loud as a jetplane? The decibel (dB) is a logarithmic unit. The difference between 10dB and 140dB is a factor of 10^13, not 14. So more like ten trillion leaves fallling at once is as loud as a jet plane. Not that y...

Martin

I am in a tent! In Norway! But also here.

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Seems like it would be good to get lots of people involved in looking for and discussing places. Arranging viewings etc could still go on here.

Martin

I used to live round the corner from that church, often wondered what the deal with it was. It sounds like the owners might be glad of some rent for it - let's get in touch. I also think we should look into the place on St Mary's Street (the one for rent at £17.5K), and also that shopfront near the ...

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The other thing is that I don't think it would be wise to commit to buying a building without having at least a year or so's experience of trying to run the forest in it. There isn't any way to be totally sure in advance what locations are going to work well enough.

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The problem is not just the money, it's getting the mortgage. No bank is going to give us one without a thorough business plan and multiple years of audited accounts, which we don't have.

Martin

I don't think the forest is in any position to take out a decades-long mortgage. I thought this conclusion had already been reached.

Martin

Possibly. In any case, we just want to rent a building, not buy a pub business.

Martin

So they're selling the business, not re-letting the space. The rent is £20K, which makes more sense.

Martin

Should we call about the one by the Tron? What do we say? I presume we intend to stay in Bristo Place till the end of August.

Martin

Man, it's true. It amazes me what the c-base and CCC can afford to have over there.

Martin

I went for a walk earlier this evening from North Bridge down through Nicholson Street and Clerk Street to Newington Road, noting down every unused shopfront in sight on the way. I'm going to repeat this for some other areas. My aim here is not just to look for places we would definitely be interest...

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