It’s the Guitar Society of Northern Colorado!
They meet once a month about three blocks from my house!
They do not play banjos
They do not play drums
They make and play their own classical guitars!
Archive for June, 2010
bunch ‘a guys playing guitar
Monday, June 28th, 2010NOCONET JOB FAIR!
Thursday, June 24th, 2010More fun than you would think…
Lots of local companies represented here
and lots of networking going on
an opportunity to get more free pens and keychains!
Actually when I do my jobs workshop at the Larimer County Workforce Center I tell everyone I see that they should get off their butts and get down to NoCoNet on Monday mornings and get networked! This Job Fair was well attended with employers and I was quite impressed. Great job NoCoNet!
City Park Sunday
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Jr. Motorman Bailey
Acting as depot agent and left-handed banjo player in City Park, Fort Collins.
Fort Collins Municipal Railway’s car #21 is 91 years old. It’s not the oldest trolley in operation but it’s still pretty damn old and it still works well going down Mountain Avenue on the weekend. FYI, the oldest running trolley in North America is the old Chicago, Aurora & Elgin car #20. It is 108 years old and can be seen and ridden at the Fox River Trolley Museum in South Elgin, Illinois.
the colorado force is with us?
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010It’s the Women’s soccer team called The Colorado Force!
The Colorado Woman’s Team
Soccer is interesting this month; It’s probably because there’s the 2010 FIFI World Cup in South Africa. Brazil is looking good! So is Korea, Germany and Slovenia.
Lucky #13
Here’s the team mascot. It was a great evening for foot-ball! A fairly good crowd came even though it looked like there were tornadoes nearby (there were!). Too bad there was no half-time entertainment.
Oh, wait!
Bloco em Foco was there!
a coalition of artists
Saturday, June 12th, 2010At the CoCOA or Colorado Coalition of artists:
They have art on display
and studio space
representing media of all kinds
and they paint left-handed banjo players at times!
Here’s Don George Vogl making a correction on the mustache
About five artists altogether trying to capture the moment.
underrated fort collins vultures
Saturday, June 5th, 2010What makes Fort Collins one of the most underrated cities in the west?
Turkey Vultures ?
Fellow blogger Cat (see Bismarck Stories) cued me in about the turkey vultures that roost near Mountain and Washington streets in Fort Collins. Famous cities like San Francisco and Chicago’s Hyde Park park have their parrots; why shouldn’t we have some too?
Harold and Dick and the Famous 91 year old Fort Collins Trolley #21
The Fort Collins Trolley runs along Mountain Street and it crosses the area of the infamous turkey vultures. I asked Harold and Dick about the vultures and they didn’t know what I was talking about! (I thought for sure these guys would be able to point out the vultures for the delight of passengers as they had to have crossed that area thousands of times!) But they do exist and have been blogged about in the past, so I wanted to make sure our fellow FCMRR conductors and motorman knew about them. I talked to some of the passengers on the trolley and found a few who know about the vultures but seemed to think that they were no longer in the area “because they couldn’t smell them.” Oh, but they ARE there!
Turkey Vultures!
I got out of the trolley and saw them flying around and I took a few pictures. OK, not as pleasant as parrots, but still much underrated. Life.com (as in LIFE magazine) voted FoCo one of the most underrated cities in the west. What, are they nuts?
UBUNTU UTNUBU !
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010and they say some things never change:
These are some cartoons adapted from Bob Johnson
As found in the second edition of “UNIX Primer Plus”
If you are a UNIX geek you will understand…
Geeks have advanced to three syllables!
Did you know that Ubuntu 10.04 is Here! It’s time for a change. Your computer can be faster- it can be fast, fun and easier to use! It’s a distribution of Linux which is free Unix which ain’t anything like MS-DOS, or CP/M. I had to see what FRPCUG had to say!
FRPCUG
They were giving a demo of some of the new Linux distributions for FRPCUG members and some non-members (like me). The FRPCUG stands for Front Range Pee Cee User’s Group; Note: Some iMAC users are members!
Some Sort of LINUX
You know those damn digital projectors? I used to do presentations all the time. While I would follow these instructions or similar for connecting laptops to projectors, I have found it most important to COME IN 30 MINUTES EARLY AND MAKE SURE THE EQUIPMENT WORKS! That didn’t happen here; The projector only worked for 3 or 4 minutes out of a 60 minute discussion on Linux. It was total crap!
I see this kind of thing happen and I watch them try to get the projector to work at various meetings around town. Sure, it’s not rocket science, but I don’t know what it is! Some things never change. Ha! …and that iMAC user member in the group?: he had a hard time trying not to laugh!