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WarthogsRUs2015

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WarthogsRUs2015

 


 

Introduction/Definition/etc

 

Having little to do with anything, Warthogs are African animals with small tusks or similar,that were on shirts from a now defunct Britches of Georgetown, back in the day... ..

 

Body

 

The cool kids had either polo shirts at great expense, or Warthogs, a local like brand.

 

This is more about technology, a Symposium on STEM that I crashed the other day.

 

As a traffic geek, preferring not to play Frogger, I used multimodal transportation and ventured to Reston, without looking up the directions.  Having snowed and severe cabin fever, I and many others apparently decided to go to school on a Saturday.

 

Parking lots were occupied, people were rushing but friendly enough.  One lady talking on a cell phone while doing a turn through salty windshields almost hit me in the crosswalk, admittedly further in the intersection than I should have been, somewhere near Eden and Arkansas, after three busses and meeting some transplanted locals going to work at Target, not liking the weather.

 

RIBS 5, 3, Connector 928 or so, the whole 950 series and schedules were out of whack, as were the wild goose chase that might have gotten me there, but likely not, so I went multi modal and just plugged along a slow busy street, considering holding onto a four by four snow plowie type vehicle, to get up a hill, you see I've gotten old and out of shape, so going for a ride in the snow was fun by local standards, crazy by many people's standards, I should just stay indoors and use and exercise bike and simulate a trip instead, likely watching fast food stores and convenience stores sell ETOH and other find goods to people and be annoyed by staff...

 

Instead I annoyed everyone possible, likely amusing a few as well.

 

Nyquist School for the Gifted hosted a Symposium on STEM.  Aside from corporate interests a government official, former governor Tim Kaine was scheduled to appear and probably did, I'd left by then, having accomplished my goal for the day, getting out, finding it, shearly by luck, not being run over by the garbage truck following me, and other possibly good fortune.  (reference a ghost bike in Dupont Circle for a young lady biker where someone from a local cafe, a secret service agent, IIRC, tried reviving her...)

 

Anyways, it was crowded, extremely, and they might not have wanted to let me in, but they did, after not finding me on the list, some likely highly classified list of donors for the political party of Ross Perot, or Kaine, or some wannabe, future politician financed by the illustrious list of exhibitors, not showing locations for them, maybe next year.  Second Annual, so thirt try and maybe it gets better.

 

Diversity was present, not that it should matter,   Three young ladies with nun headgear, commonly referred to as hajibs, were walking with their mom also in semi formal ware.    Someone said there kid was not going there because I was there, others might have been happy about it.  Private school must be better, instead of gangs, they might have snobbish parents, IDK.

 

A controlled environment is not always what you can get ins school.  Even the relatively affluent school I went to, someone pulled a gun on me, in the late afternoon as I was walking around, likely after sports or something.  I laughed, later thinking I might have been killed, but as an early depressive, probably didn't matter to me much.  I could have ended up in a wheelchair or dead, but it wasn't worth it to them, AFAIK, no one was killed in the incident.  I probably didn't report the weapon, the kids, visiting or not, likely suffered no real consequences.

 

So, a suited gentleman kindly locked up my bike in nearby office, no kickstand getting in the way, leaning against the rolling chairs, and someone complaining they would have to get their office fumigated....

 

Meltdowns and other problems exist.  Going blind, after being told to leave is a problem.  I played Rosa Parks again, having registered and the snobbish like frond desk overgrown kids, one running to find a booth I wanted to visit, another standing and watching me, no name tags, for the likes of me, no bag for my type, I obviously had enough bags, a large duffel and a chrome messenger bag plus some cheap panniers and a trunk bag, with lock, but not enough to secure it well, when offered to leave my inline accessibility device outside. 

 

Some events are in the Gym, but athletics are likely too expensive, I'd been thinking of kinesthetic knowledge and intelligence, even of Cosby's doing exercise and chucking through education after practice.  Learning my be easier after working out, and your mind and body works better when you are not a lump on a couch the whole time. playing video games entirely, for example.

 

The building was actually like a drone, arms going out, narrowish hallways, overwhelmed by people, a few quiet sections, I stopped at one and talked to what looked like a parent, in a Labs t shirt and mentioned RobotFest, asking if he was going, he said yes, we had something in common, and all was well.

 

Wandering the halls, somebody was in a locker, I was amazed, I've forgotten lockers and school, thinking there weren't any anymore.  My locker at the shelter didn't even work.  Door wouldn't stay closed, as the minority person, not a token, just an odd one, I got what was left over, I guess.  One other albino like person got upset with me for recycling his shoes he threw out, I guess donating them was out of the question.  I had a cheap luggable machine at the time, a dual floppy? DOS type machine I journalled on, and mostly used as a paperweight.  Emacs or similar, was likely on it, chucking away trying to load all that in memory, the kitchen sink version of the operating system, just for word process, text processing or a program editor, IIRC.  Versions exist on most machines, it's been around forever, and a day.  See DarwinPlusOne2015  for reference to meaninglessness.

 

Anyways, visiting a drone booth I didn't RSVP to, but doing teh eventbrite?  registration, I was not found, and just wandered around the school.   Adults only bathroom seemed like a good idea, the fixtures likely higher than for kids, maybe each wing, like the West Wing were sized to the intended audience.  Stepstools not required, little people, not dwarfs, meybe gnomes, IDK, could have likely used them.  As a host, the facility was charming, and even had a penguin board, of various varieties which I impusively gigled at.  Maybe it was the linux lab, or just a special interest of one of the teachers and s tudents.   Instead of a college stamp, you must get approval to post, like public schools, college or whatever community center, one can nnot just graphitti any old wall.  Other kids might run along with crayons, but this was much more civilized, even Harrity was likely visiting, walking thru, as a resident republican county board member, could have just looked like him, whatever.

 

A few suits were present, likely a VP administrator hid the bike.  Not sure what a wheelchaired person would have done.  Probaly trampled.   Power chair like Stephen Hawkins might have helped, maybe a chirstopher reeves and an iBot chair could have hwlped...

 

Fire regulations aside, they said they got a waiver, getting nasty later in the event, after talking bikes and advocacy with a civil engineer hearing about a lock turned the wrong way, later thinking it segmented the area, you see locking people into the converence area, semi Gym would have been bad, so station an engineer to keep it open, or open as needed, kind of like carleton the doorman, jokes about drunki driving likely not appreciated.  I was wearing BikeDC attire and a chesty GoPro harness, the 3D camera setup makes lots of people nervous.   And after years of biking the chrome bag likely smells, the rest of me rather fresh, afaict, not a log o exercise, but too much weight, my purse, or back 40 as I sometimes call it was heavy, and my tweaked back bothering me.  One snap, clasp or similar broke earlier that day, likely not liking  the cold, maybe time to buy annother messenger bag.

 

For clothing aside, my headgear and old bell helmet with a niterider light, most think it's a camera, wings of the straps holding it, but flying in the breeze, like a Sheldon Brown Eagle or similar but less class...

 

Bought some food, subway turkey sandwich disappeared right before my, someone knew to get the meat, MeatForVegetarians  aside, it would make me sleepy, I think I said.  $6.5 for a $4.50 veggie sub, cheese I later discover is veggie, could be cheese free cheese, like The Bid Cheese, one of the humous events I think from the WhiteHouse.   Goverment Cheese jokes aside, we don't get much of that at the food panty, AFAICT.  ThePracticalitiesOfFoodDistribution2012  has transfered me to a guverment site, and entertaining the kids has become a pasttime.

 

Upon attack, I'm not sure by whom, you can probably attack anyone after you tell them to leave, but not seeing them, not knowing if they have real authority, or just South Park Authority, Eric Cartman playing cop on a big wheel, sunglasses and all, pulling over a vehicle, and acting tough...

 

Someone likely set me up, my reputation preceedes me, somehow as a biker, and talking forrest gump like ahead of time in transit systems, gets me knonn, mor thatn I can care to be.  Forgeting what I was typing as the typos and difficulty seeing has gotten in the way.  Must shceudle an eye doctor appointment, and journalling like it matters to others, doesn't seem to help...

 

Anyways, rumor has it this website is used as a learning tool in schools, maaybe a disability class.   OK by me, but I pity the people who have to read it, not really intended as that, maybe Network of Care, or the Regional Recovery Office newsletter is better suited to it, the Part 7 or whatever, website part of the old grant from the state might have helped that.  Had other writers gotten involved in contributing, before my death, maybe it would have been better.  Some time ago, I think I mentioned people are welcome to print it out and mark it up in red ink, or whatver, gold stars, OK, GoldStarts, the typos declare are also good, whatever those are...  Start Again, each day, learn and do something intereseting, like fighting depression in the winter time, now almost spring, Spring Forward, Fall BAck, the clocks changed on the WeekEnd and Endz is all people care about.  What Do I Get For Doing That?  Honorable Mention for Finding Typos?  An OCD sticker, like AdaFruit badges, or girl Scout badges for sales? 

 

Whatever, waiting for pizza was not my thing, I could have, the person and the price list, one kid grabbing stuff, and running off, I was blocking the price sign, they probably went out to eat instead, the kid returning the food, it's probably usually free to students, the others just pay as you go, like cell phone time.   How you control your food intake in an eat all you can type of environment, IDK, kind of open  bar, for food.  Like Weddings for Governors and Former Governors, marrying off your daughter must be one of the most difficult things a man must do, and my sympathies for how it went for Bob, even if I did meat hime at a market, farmer's market in South County one time, before he went to the Country Club.  Nice neough to stop by, and say hi to a guy sitting on the curb, about the time my dad was dying and I was too busy to go see him, take him to his parents town, not likely a toxic waste dump like most mining and fracking areas.  I couldn't deal with his loss, and now 5 years later or so, still can't.  I didn't get the master's degreee as I had hoped and talked to him, that Audacity is Gone.  Like what they want from me, Gone for Paperwork or whatever.  Emergency CPR, is not what spraying people is about.   Tag them with an invisible spray, to show that that animal has been seen by law enforcement recently.  Maybe in the back of the head or something, washing ehir hair might get rid of it eventuyally.   But there are other spraysl ikely in use, one that do all sorts of bad things, maybe a form of liquid crack, heroin or similar, maybe even an inseticide that kills people.  But without the trace amounts of odorous stufff like added to natural gas to know you have a leak.... 

 

What is the substance that causes people to act the way I likely did?  Was I set up?  Someone complained and attacked me while I was out again?   After Tuesday's three attacks I was in for days.  Maybe it's in my head?  Create a problem, likely by someone else to get rid of me?  Maybe Gang like?  Kids report people and maybe get rid of them?   Might work on Wilson, like the white cop people probably want to kill, after Furgeson shooting.   Whitmore, the comedy central comedian and others dumped on it before the weekend, just another kid, I guess.  Like shootings in DC?  Trevor? or similar, my bad about names?

 

Bike Share is not working for me, it's a tourist type function and would not have helped, afaict.  Storms approaching and repair people or theives, I Could Not Tell, were busy and annoyed I had pulled up the the Ballston stop, going counter to traffic, in the bik late, wondering about where to park.  I could have gone on the sidewalk, where all cars, maybe all, maybe most, think we shold be.  I checked the wather, and seemed to be verbally attacked, maybe early release of kids, or detention kids from up north, getting out of school early in DC, playing hookie, and attack some white guys with bikes, two working on the cute red bikes, too heavy and expensive for a lot of pople to use.  Kids are excluded from them, you have to be an adult, last I knew to ride.  A safety contract of get home wihtout the bus, and parents will pay, say preteen ages, and a helmet required, maybe they wanted to release all the bikes, or in paris or somewhre, throw them in the river, in protest, kind of like a bike tea party, IDK.  East of the River it seemed kids were bringing the worst bike they could find and make fun of the free bike help, donations accepted, no stores, and obviously a boundary between biking for some and others in the other Wards, 8 and so, getting less food desserts, and more exercise.  Mom's over the Bridge, Market, or whatever, I ahven't seen the snow piles, maybe 6 feet like paring lots in malls, pile it up, seeing a shovel in a big pile of snow, shovel out the drains so it will not freeze back up, that mgith help.  Or deliver the shovel for the net  volunteer to get, or signify that we are near out graves, and just buty us in the sand, the cold white sand.

 

XEmacs, has this nice transpose type keystroke, control T, like Token, to switch letters, typed it wrong, ControlT and it flips back, this tool, just underlines anything it cannot find, think again, save now, before loosing all this drivel.  Save and Continue...

 

Whey, saved it, and get back to the stream of consciousness that is my life now.  Dump it on paper, or the new form of paper, bits in the sky, and hope I feel better later.  I can then rest, having purged my thoughts, or whatever words per minute i can do, on the screen, and dump what is going on, or what of it I can say.  Out Loud, in the early AM. before doing something else, likely having problems later today, wtih GamesPublicHousingPlays2010  or whatever the current ScheduleAbuse is...  ScheduleAndOtherAbuse  there it is, create my phrases and hope no one else is using them.  Warthogs are trademarked but one linke on the search said it is expired...

 

Find Linds and Publish?

 

Links

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

 

Summary of experience or similar

 

Discussion

 

A place for feedback on the page presented

 

Public or Private?

 

Public Private Partnership?

 

Talented or Gifted?

 

Don't we all have Gifts?

 

Only Difficult to Find?

 

How about talents?

 

RobotFest and other geeky events are upcoming, so should we plan ahead?

 

Or just muddle through?

 

GeekingOutWithRaspberryPi2012 , now Raspberry Pi 2 B is a quad core Broadcomm based ARM processor, upgraded for memory, CPU and form factor a little bit, more USB ports and more available locally, I'd like another one, the one I have tried is OK, snappy be comparison in speed, but used my micro SD card, that I could have flown with instead....

 

GeeksRule2014  was represented, they said I would not be volunteering I would have to pay for a shirt, and the Nyquiet event didn't have shirts available to the masses, just a bright blue type event shirt, like bike staff shirts, change color for staff and mirely plebes....

 

Yep, Symposium has drinking, the rafe or whatever the greek and roman names are, how many bottles for how many people?  By the later bottles, they are getting obnoxious, and have differnt titles, look  it up.

 

I was melting down, and wanted to leave, my bell wasn ot well recived, was I more important than everone else? the nasty mother , likely stressed out at the expense of the summer camps or early admission or whatever she was dealing with, why take it out on the baggy biker?  I'm wide but not Angry Bird Black Woman impersonator mad, Tyler Perry, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, don't mess with her, she might be angry....

 

 

Or just Add Art to STEM and get creative.  STEAM, not the video game platform, open sourced to run on linux, and other games available for those that buy license, just STEAM Pumk, get there by huffing and puffing, and blow the howse down?

 

Pedaling, not the only one, some others seen later, biking on the trail, they had polowed to south arlington, just not as well as North Arlington.  Takes some practice to bike in it, had joggers following me, fun, like wet leaves it is risky, and I could go fater, maybe they stopped for a latte at the senoir center, not that was a while back...

 

Anyways, activites for kids, less boring lectures, I didn't bother to sttay, less public cameras, and maybe we can geet geeky with guberment, allow flying on NPS lands, a Fly Passport approval process, and I might pay to do that.  About like bicycling for short people, seeing above the trees, not bothering the birds, penguins, Hawks, Doves, etc...

 

 

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