Agenda

  • Order beer
  • Open discussion; bring the ideas you’re passionate about

Minutes

  • house purchasing discussion
  • pirate radio

Asked three members what things they carried on them without warning in advance:

windows ce device 8 keys (car house condo condo-common laptop) keyfob - building access wallet - reduced from 20 to 3 cards recently, if not often used bluetooth headset

business card carrier wallet card wallet notepad passport phone (pda) pager keys - in wallet (3 wallets in total) 2 usb fobs pens lighter multitool eye contact holder mininun! knife bag with laptop

keys cell wallet watch camera emergency cd

  • two members no longer wear watches now that they have alternative devices that carry the time

Then we discussed what a good geek should carry:

ham radio camera wire copper, stiff flashlight

Then we moved on to what we should have in case we go into a state of emergency:

9mm/weapon ham radio generator (multi fuel) helium balloon chair zodiac/pull chain boat tsunami zones? wood fire starter water purification locator beacon flashlight bank records

6.25 volt 400 amp 50 amp hours 312.5 watt hours life cycle - indefinite

70-75 dollars in material cost

Should take 7-10 days for materials to integrate before it can be fully tested. Member will present in two weeks time on results and details.

  • gas spectrometer - Where to buy?
  • "Thats the trouble wth chemicals, they all do different things"
  • Where to get certain chemicals
  • How to grind monel, or find monel powder?

  • danger/safety with batteries - chance to explode

  • For importing use DHL, then USPS, never UPS

  • What fun things do you do outside of work? how much time?
    1. all of it
    2. a lot - 20 hours on projects - information gathering
    3. 20-40 hours
  1. need a life
  2. not happy, but have to eat
  3. have a life - it takes a lot of time (5-10 if wife is in town) - lower priority

financial expectations (and others) of our partners is the male expected to provide (in full) during maternity

  • Members discussed business venture greedywalrus.com. and financial models
    1. monthly/yearly (cosco)
    2. offer the cheapest one that makes me money option
    3. advertising model (froogle)
    4. sell the ip

  • futureshop model

  • Will try to organize a Yashy Idea Society online chat