<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>I'll be there at 4 today. please send me the number to call.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Raul Suarez
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<br>An eclectic collection of random thoughts</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 3:21 AM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none">As I mentioned during the meeting, after getting 10 or so people<br clear="none">expressing initial interest in fixing some laptops, I have received a<br clear="none">total of two (now maybe four?) expressions of interest in actually<br clear="none">showing up. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">As the message below indicates, we are
holding two evening sessions to<br clear="none">try this out: <br clear="none"><br clear="none">- Saturday, Nov 8, 4pm-8pm or so.<br clear="none">- Monday, Nov 10, 5pm-9pm or so. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you are able to help during one of these sessions, please email me<br clear="none">offlist and I will give you a cellphone number so that you can get<br clear="none">into the building. If you cannot make either of these sessions (and<br clear="none">cannot come during the day when Computer Recycling is open) that would<br clear="none">be helpful to know as well.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- Paul<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 02:43:23AM -0400, Paul Nijjar wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Okay, let's fix some laptops. <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Some people want to help fix laptops during Computer Recycling<br clear="none">> operating hours (Tuesday-Friday
10am-5pm). Those people can contact<br clear="none">> Charles directly: charlesm at theworkingcentre.org (or the address he<br clear="none">> uses on this list, I guess.) CC me on the email if you want. <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Some people have distractions like employment or schooling which<br clear="none">> prevents them from fixing laptops during Computer Recycling hours. Of<br clear="none">> this group, a subset would like to fix laptops in the evening on a<br clear="none">> weekday and a subset would like to fix laptops on a weekend. To<br clear="none">> accomodate these subsets, we are going to experiment with holding<br clear="none">> laptop-fixing sessions after hours: <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> - Saturday, Nov 8, 4pm-8pm or so.<br clear="none">> - Monday, Nov 10, 5pm-9pm or so. <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Both of these sessions will be held at the SECRET COMPUTER
RECYCLING<br clear="none">> LAIR at 66 Queen Street South, Kitchener. Getting into the SECRET LAIR<br clear="none">> after hours is going to be challenging, so if you would like to<br clear="none">> volunteer during one of these sessions please send me an email and I<br clear="none">> will send you the SECRET PHONE NUMBER to call and get in. (And for you<br clear="none">> Luddites who don't own phones, bring $0.50, because one of the few<br clear="none">> remaining pay phones in Kitchener is across the street. Or just make<br clear="none">> arrangements with me and we will figure something out.)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> There is a subset of you which would like to volunteer to fix laptops,<br clear="none">> but for which none of these times work. Let me know this offlist, and<br clear="none">> let me know what kinds of days would work better. <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> If these sessions work
well maybe we will make them a regular thing.<br clear="none">> If they turn out like all of the other futile and unfun volunteer<br clear="none">> obligations I have been taking on, then not so much.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> There is also a subset of you who wants to take some laptops to the<br clear="none">> SECRET KWARTZLAB LAIR and fix them there. If possible, I recommend<br clear="none">> that some of you attend one of the initial sessions to scope out the<br clear="none">> situation. If you then want to take some laptops away to fix them, we<br clear="none">> can make arrangements. <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> People associated with Computer Recycling, Kwartzlab, KWLUG, or other<br clear="none">> organizations beginning with hard-k sounds are welcome to participate.<br clear="none">> You do not need to be a laptop refurbishing expert to participate, but<br
clear="none">> I am not sure how appropriate these sessions will be for people who<br clear="none">> are completely unfamiliar with computers.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> - Paul <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 10:21:18PM -0400, Paul Nijjar wrote:<br clear="none">> > <br clear="none">> > This is a quick note thanking everybody who volunteered to help out.<br clear="none">> > We are still trying to figure out how to organize this. If I do not<br clear="none">> > get back to you folks within a week then kick me. <br clear="none">> > <br clear="none">> > We do have regular hours when we are open to volunteers a little<br clear="none">> > later: Wednesdays from 5-7pm. CR is also open 10am-5pm from Tuesdays<br clear="none">> > to Fridays, but those hours do not work for a lot of people who
have<br clear="none">> > to go to school or work for a living. We may be able to do something<br clear="none">> > on 1-2 Saturday afternoons a week, or maybe we could arrange for an<br clear="none">> > after-hours day some other time (maybe a Monday when there is no KWLUG<br clear="none">> > or WWITPro?)<br clear="none">> > <br clear="none">> > - Paul <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> -- <br clear="none">> Want election info? Don't have Rogers? Look here: <br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/showthread.php?tid=149" target="_blank">http://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/showthread.php?tid=149</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://pnijjar.freeshell.org/" target="_blank">http://pnijjar.freeshell.org</a><div class="yqt9745172089" id="yqtfd42487"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br
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