Howdy Y'all,
I just got back from a dry run using the "Something Extra Gather Room" at the Bel Air #502 on Arden and Eastern.
The address is 4320 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 and the gmaps page is:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eBKZdheFGPSeDXFk7
I thought to do a dry run to sus out the AV setup and get a general lay of the land, suffice to say I am VERY impressed. The SEGR is located immediately inside to the left of the left most entrance, right in "THE TAPROOM" area. It's one of those rooms where the walls are made of partially frosted glass panels.
Coffee, beer, desserts and charcuterie are available at the nearby counter,but you can also walk across the store and get something from the deli if you want something more meal shaped. Just remember to actually buy the food before you eat it. :p
The AV setup is a BIG tv with a BIG soundbar attached. The power button for the TV is on the bottom edge in the center,so you have to wedge your fingies between the tv and the soundbar to get at it. Once the TV is on, some inputs can be switched and some sort of cable/broadcast tv box can be controlled via the Crestron tablet thing on top of the media cabinet. The pincode for the Crestron tablet is the store # twice, literally: "502502". HDMI in is on the right side of the media cabinet. If you really really want you can also plug into either HDMI 1 or DVI directly on the tv, but then you only get audio from the crappy TV speakers and not the nice sound bar.
The store wifi *seemed* to be ok, measuring at ~100Mb symmetric, but then I had issues connecting to some ubuntu repos? I fell back to the wifi hotspot on my phone which also worked p well, which tells me the area has good T-Mobile coverage.
From what I can gather the room isn't used much and the staff there seem pretty chill, so no ones gonna yell at us if we show up a little early and leave a little late.
And the best part (aside from the beer) is that the 2hr booking cost $0.
This is absolutely my vote for the December meeting, but let me know what y'all think. Shout out to Gary for the idea, I had *no idea* meeting rooms in Raley's were a thing.
I'll send a follow up email with some photos/videos attached of the venue.
Cheers,
Sen-h.
Here are some photos/videos. Jpegs are straight from my phone camera, but the videos have been re-encoded in AV1/Opus for size. If all else fails, Firefox should know how to open them. Hopefully this email is still small enough to skirt under your providers size limits (fingers crossed) :p.
sen-h.
On 12/1/23 23:08, Sen Hastings wrote:
Howdy Y'all,
I just got back from a dry run using the "Something Extra Gather Room" at the Bel Air #502 on Arden and Eastern.
The address is 4320 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 and the gmaps page is:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eBKZdheFGPSeDXFk7
I thought to do a dry run to sus out the AV setup and get a general lay of the land, suffice to say I am VERY impressed. The SEGR is located immediately inside to the left of the left most entrance, right in "THE TAPROOM" area. It's one of those rooms where the walls are made of partially frosted glass panels.
Coffee, beer, desserts and charcuterie are available at the nearby counter,but you can also walk across the store and get something from the deli if you want something more meal shaped. Just remember to actually buy the food before you eat it. :p
The AV setup is a BIG tv with a BIG soundbar attached. The power button for the TV is on the bottom edge in the center,so you have to wedge your fingies between the tv and the soundbar to get at it. Once the TV is on, some inputs can be switched and some sort of cable/broadcast tv box can be controlled via the Crestron tablet thing on top of the media cabinet. The pincode for the Crestron tablet is the store # twice, literally: "502502". HDMI in is on the right side of the media cabinet. If you really really want you can also plug into either HDMI 1 or DVI directly on the tv, but then you only get audio from the crappy TV speakers and not the nice sound bar.
The store wifi *seemed* to be ok, measuring at ~100Mb symmetric, but then I had issues connecting to some ubuntu repos? I fell back to the wifi hotspot on my phone which also worked p well, which tells me the area has good T-Mobile coverage.
From what I can gather the room isn't used much and the staff there seem pretty chill, so no ones gonna yell at us if we show up a little early and leave a little late.
And the best part (aside from the beer) is that the 2hr booking cost $0.
This is absolutely my vote for the December meeting, but let me know what y'all think. Shout out to Gary for the idea, I had *no idea* meeting rooms in Raley's were a thing.
I'll send a follow up email with some photos/videos attached of the venue.
Cheers,
Sen-h.
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Hmmm, I approved this message. It was stuck in the hold. It is pretty big!
On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 11:17:53PM -0800, Sen Hastings wrote:
Here are some photos/videos. Jpegs are straight from my phone camera, but the videos have been re-encoded in AV1/Opus for size. If all else fails, Firefox should know how to open them. Hopefully this email is still small enough to skirt under your providers size limits (fingers crossed) :p.
sen-h.
On 12/1/23 23:08, Sen Hastings wrote:
Howdy Y'all,
I just got back from a dry run using the "Something Extra Gather Room" at the Bel Air #502 on Arden and Eastern.
The address is 4320 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 and the gmaps page is:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eBKZdheFGPSeDXFk7
I thought to do a dry run to sus out the AV setup and get a general lay of the land, suffice to say I am VERY impressed. The SEGR is located immediately inside to the left of the left most entrance, right in "THE TAPROOM" area. It's one of those rooms where the walls are made of partially frosted glass panels.
Coffee, beer, desserts and charcuterie are available at the nearby counter,but you can also walk across the store and get something from the deli if you want something more meal shaped. Just remember to actually buy the food before you eat it. :p
The AV setup is a BIG tv with a BIG soundbar attached. The power button for the TV is on the bottom edge in the center,so you have to wedge your fingies between the tv and the soundbar to get at it. Once the TV is on, some inputs can be switched and some sort of cable/broadcast tv box can be controlled via the Crestron tablet thing on top of the media cabinet. The pincode for the Crestron tablet is the store # twice, literally: "502502". HDMI in is on the right side of the media cabinet. If you really really want you can also plug into either HDMI 1 or DVI directly on the tv, but then you only get audio from the crappy TV speakers and not the nice sound bar.
The store wifi *seemed* to be ok, measuring at ~100Mb symmetric, but then I had issues connecting to some ubuntu repos? I fell back to the wifi hotspot on my phone which also worked p well, which tells me the area has good T-Mobile coverage.
From what I can gather the room isn't used much and the staff there seem pretty chill, so no ones gonna yell at us if we show up a little early and leave a little late.
And the best part (aside from the beer) is that the 2hr booking cost $0.
This is absolutely my vote for the December meeting, but let me know what y'all think. Shout out to Gary for the idea, I had *no idea* meeting rooms in Raley's were a thing.
I'll send a follow up email with some photos/videos attached of the venue.
Cheers,
Sen-h.
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As I suspected, the mailing list daemon bounced my 23MB of attachments. Here are some wafer thin avifs in the meantime.
sen-h.
On 12/1/23 23:08, Sen Hastings wrote:
Howdy Y'all,
I just got back from a dry run using the "Something Extra Gather Room" at the Bel Air #502 on Arden and Eastern.
The address is 4320 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 and the gmaps page is:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eBKZdheFGPSeDXFk7
I thought to do a dry run to sus out the AV setup and get a general lay of the land, suffice to say I am VERY impressed. The SEGR is located immediately inside to the left of the left most entrance, right in "THE TAPROOM" area. It's one of those rooms where the walls are made of partially frosted glass panels.
Coffee, beer, desserts and charcuterie are available at the nearby counter,but you can also walk across the store and get something from the deli if you want something more meal shaped. Just remember to actually buy the food before you eat it. :p
The AV setup is a BIG tv with a BIG soundbar attached. The power button for the TV is on the bottom edge in the center,so you have to wedge your fingies between the tv and the soundbar to get at it. Once the TV is on, some inputs can be switched and some sort of cable/broadcast tv box can be controlled via the Crestron tablet thing on top of the media cabinet. The pincode for the Crestron tablet is the store # twice, literally: "502502". HDMI in is on the right side of the media cabinet. If you really really want you can also plug into either HDMI 1 or DVI directly on the tv, but then you only get audio from the crappy TV speakers and not the nice sound bar.
The store wifi *seemed* to be ok, measuring at ~100Mb symmetric, but then I had issues connecting to some ubuntu repos? I fell back to the wifi hotspot on my phone which also worked p well, which tells me the area has good T-Mobile coverage.
From what I can gather the room isn't used much and the staff there seem pretty chill, so no ones gonna yell at us if we show up a little early and leave a little late.
And the best part (aside from the beer) is that the 2hr booking cost $0.
This is absolutely my vote for the December meeting, but let me know what y'all think. Shout out to Gary for the idea, I had *no idea* meeting rooms in Raley's were a thing.
I'll send a follow up email with some photos/videos attached of the venue.
Cheers,
Sen-h.
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Ok, I've done some truly unholy things to these images, maybe they will send now?
sen-h.
On 12/1/23 23:08, Sen Hastings wrote:
Howdy Y'all,
I just got back from a dry run using the "Something Extra Gather Room" at the Bel Air #502 on Arden and Eastern.
The address is 4320 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 and the gmaps page is:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eBKZdheFGPSeDXFk7
I thought to do a dry run to sus out the AV setup and get a general lay of the land, suffice to say I am VERY impressed. The SEGR is located immediately inside to the left of the left most entrance, right in "THE TAPROOM" area. It's one of those rooms where the walls are made of partially frosted glass panels.
Coffee, beer, desserts and charcuterie are available at the nearby counter,but you can also walk across the store and get something from the deli if you want something more meal shaped. Just remember to actually buy the food before you eat it. :p
The AV setup is a BIG tv with a BIG soundbar attached. The power button for the TV is on the bottom edge in the center,so you have to wedge your fingies between the tv and the soundbar to get at it. Once the TV is on, some inputs can be switched and some sort of cable/broadcast tv box can be controlled via the Crestron tablet thing on top of the media cabinet. The pincode for the Crestron tablet is the store # twice, literally: "502502". HDMI in is on the right side of the media cabinet. If you really really want you can also plug into either HDMI 1 or DVI directly on the tv, but then you only get audio from the crappy TV speakers and not the nice sound bar.
The store wifi *seemed* to be ok, measuring at ~100Mb symmetric, but then I had issues connecting to some ubuntu repos? I fell back to the wifi hotspot on my phone which also worked p well, which tells me the area has good T-Mobile coverage.
From what I can gather the room isn't used much and the staff there seem pretty chill, so no ones gonna yell at us if we show up a little early and leave a little late.
And the best part (aside from the beer) is that the 2hr booking cost $0.
This is absolutely my vote for the December meeting, but let me know what y'all think. Shout out to Gary for the idea, I had *no idea* meeting rooms in Raley's were a thing.
I'll send a follow up email with some photos/videos attached of the venue.
Cheers,
Sen-h.
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Hi Sen,
I say let's go ahead with the next meeting at Raley's location. Would you like to update the GitHub and I will update the site?
Perhaps an hour presentation and round table social thereafter?
Here is a suggested topic. it just happens to be what I am playing around with!
I have a Raspberry Pi with the Pi hat with a 3 axis acclerometer , gyro, and magnetometer.
Brian
On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 12:39:32AM -0800, Sen Hastings wrote:
Ok, I've done some truly unholy things to these images, maybe they will send now?
sen-h.
On 12/1/23 23:08, Sen Hastings wrote:
Howdy Y'all,
I just got back from a dry run using the "Something Extra Gather Room" at the Bel Air #502 on Arden and Eastern.
The address is 4320 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 and the gmaps page is:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eBKZdheFGPSeDXFk7
I thought to do a dry run to sus out the AV setup and get a general lay of the land, suffice to say I am VERY impressed. The SEGR is located immediately inside to the left of the left most entrance, right in "THE TAPROOM" area. It's one of those rooms where the walls are made of partially frosted glass panels.
Coffee, beer, desserts and charcuterie are available at the nearby counter,but you can also walk across the store and get something from the deli if you want something more meal shaped. Just remember to actually buy the food before you eat it. :p
The AV setup is a BIG tv with a BIG soundbar attached. The power button for the TV is on the bottom edge in the center,so you have to wedge your fingies between the tv and the soundbar to get at it. Once the TV is on, some inputs can be switched and some sort of cable/broadcast tv box can be controlled via the Crestron tablet thing on top of the media cabinet. The pincode for the Crestron tablet is the store # twice, literally: "502502". HDMI in is on the right side of the media cabinet. If you really really want you can also plug into either HDMI 1 or DVI directly on the tv, but then you only get audio from the crappy TV speakers and not the nice sound bar.
The store wifi *seemed* to be ok, measuring at ~100Mb symmetric, but then I had issues connecting to some ubuntu repos? I fell back to the wifi hotspot on my phone which also worked p well, which tells me the area has good T-Mobile coverage.
From what I can gather the room isn't used much and the staff there seem pretty chill, so no ones gonna yell at us if we show up a little early and leave a little late.
And the best part (aside from the beer) is that the 2hr booking cost $0.
This is absolutely my vote for the December meeting, but let me know what y'all think. Shout out to Gary for the idea, I had *no idea* meeting rooms in Raley's were a thing.
I'll send a follow up email with some photos/videos attached of the venue.
Cheers,
Sen-h.
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Rpi is a good topic. I just (as in yesterday) gave up on making a Pi into a wifi access point. Everything works, but the AP keeps shutting down. Well, it drops off the list. I think there are limits to the Pi :)
-Gary
On Sun, Dec 03, 2023 at 01:59:59PM -0800, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
Hi Sen,
I say let's go ahead with the next meeting at Raley's location. Would you like to update the GitHub and I will update the site?
Perhaps an hour presentation and round table social thereafter?
Here is a suggested topic. it just happens to be what I am playing around with!
I have a Raspberry Pi with the Pi hat with a 3 axis acclerometer , gyro, and magnetometer.
Brian
On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 12:39:32AM -0800, Sen Hastings wrote:
Ok, I've done some truly unholy things to these images, maybe they will send now?
sen-h.
On 12/1/23 23:08, Sen Hastings wrote:
Howdy Y'all,
I just got back from a dry run using the "Something Extra Gather Room" at the Bel Air #502 on Arden and Eastern.
The address is 4320 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 and the gmaps page is:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eBKZdheFGPSeDXFk7
I thought to do a dry run to sus out the AV setup and get a general lay of the land, suffice to say I am VERY impressed. The SEGR is located immediately inside to the left of the left most entrance, right in "THE TAPROOM" area. It's one of those rooms where the walls are made of partially frosted glass panels.
Coffee, beer, desserts and charcuterie are available at the nearby counter,but you can also walk across the store and get something from the deli if you want something more meal shaped. Just remember to actually buy the food before you eat it. :p
The AV setup is a BIG tv with a BIG soundbar attached. The power button for the TV is on the bottom edge in the center,so you have to wedge your fingies between the tv and the soundbar to get at it. Once the TV is on, some inputs can be switched and some sort of cable/broadcast tv box can be controlled via the Crestron tablet thing on top of the media cabinet. The pincode for the Crestron tablet is the store # twice, literally: "502502". HDMI in is on the right side of the media cabinet. If you really really want you can also plug into either HDMI 1 or DVI directly on the tv, but then you only get audio from the crappy TV speakers and not the nice sound bar.
The store wifi *seemed* to be ok, measuring at ~100Mb symmetric, but then I had issues connecting to some ubuntu repos? I fell back to the wifi hotspot on my phone which also worked p well, which tells me the area has good T-Mobile coverage.
From what I can gather the room isn't used much and the staff there seem pretty chill, so no ones gonna yell at us if we show up a little early and leave a little late.
And the best part (aside from the beer) is that the 2hr booking cost $0.
This is absolutely my vote for the December meeting, but let me know what y'all think. Shout out to Gary for the idea, I had *no idea* meeting rooms in Raley's were a thing.
I'll send a follow up email with some photos/videos attached of the venue.
Cheers,
Sen-h.
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Thanks for the thorough dry run! That seems like the place to meet
On December 1, 2023 23:08:53 Sen Hastings sen@hastings.org wrote:
Howdy Y'all,
I just got back from a dry run using the "Something Extra Gather Room" at the Bel Air #502 on Arden and Eastern.
The address is 4320 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 and the gmaps page is:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eBKZdheFGPSeDXFk7
I thought to do a dry run to sus out the AV setup and get a general lay of the land, suffice to say I am VERY impressed. The SEGR is located immediately inside to the left of the left most entrance, right in "THE TAPROOM" area. It's one of those rooms where the walls are made of partially frosted glass panels.
Coffee, beer, desserts and charcuterie are available at the nearby counter,but you can also walk across the store and get something from the deli if you want something more meal shaped. Just remember to actually buy the food before you eat it. :p
The AV setup is a BIG tv with a BIG soundbar attached. The power button for the TV is on the bottom edge in the center,so you have to wedge your fingies between the tv and the soundbar to get at it. Once the TV is on, some inputs can be switched and some sort of cable/broadcast tv box can be controlled via the Crestron tablet thing on top of the media cabinet. The pincode for the Crestron tablet is the store # twice, literally: "502502". HDMI in is on the right side of the media cabinet. If you really really want you can also plug into either HDMI 1 or DVI directly on the tv, but then you only get audio from the crappy TV speakers and not the nice sound bar.
The store wifi *seemed* to be ok, measuring at ~100Mb symmetric, but then I had issues connecting to some ubuntu repos? I fell back to the wifi hotspot on my phone which also worked p well, which tells me the area has good T-Mobile coverage.
From what I can gather the room isn't used much and the staff there seem pretty chill, so no ones gonna yell at us if we show up a little early and leave a little late.
And the best part (aside from the beer) is that the 2hr booking cost $0.
This is absolutely my vote for the December meeting, but let me know what y'all think. Shout out to Gary for the idea, I had *no idea* meeting rooms in Raley's were a thing.
I'll send a follow up email with some photos/videos attached of the venue.
Cheers,
Sen-h.
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