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Grex > Coop11 > #187: Top of the Park: Promoting Grex on July 9th |  |
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ea
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response 79 of 124:
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Jul 12 01:35 UTC 2000 |
I sit corrected. It was in the rehearsal room when I left.
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krj
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response 80 of 124:
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Jul 12 02:37 UTC 2000 |
*** Y'all gave away approximately 600 magnets? ***
Wow. I'm *impressed.* I'm so sorry I couldn't be there to see
it, but I had a date with a beach chair in Cape May...
anyway, *wowowowowow*....
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tsty
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response 81 of 124:
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Jul 12 02:52 UTC 2000 |
600 is an astonishing number! fanTAStik! my hunch was wrong,
500 max. i like being wroing like this.
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other
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response 82 of 124:
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Jul 12 03:58 UTC 2000 |
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ebassey/pics/tower.jpg
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ebassey/pics/before.jpg
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ebassey/pics/after.jpg
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gelinas
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response 83 of 124:
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Jul 12 04:04 UTC 2000 |
Nice pictures, Eric.
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otaking
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response 84 of 124:
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Jul 12 04:16 UTC 2000 |
I wish I could've made it to the TOP that night, but I didn't get back from
Sterling Heights until 10PM.
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mdw
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response 85 of 124:
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Jul 12 05:37 UTC 2000 |
I showed up for a bit during GQ. I saw omni, *very* briefly, as I was
scurrying away, and also saw gregc. Didn't see any magnets, anywhere.
When I showed up a few days ago, a cute girl tried very hard, but
unsuccessfully, to sell me a pencil.
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tpryan
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response 86 of 124:
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Jul 12 11:23 UTC 2000 |
Now we will have to see if we do gain any more local users, via
the URL or via the phone number.
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mooncat
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response 87 of 124:
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Jul 12 12:54 UTC 2000 |
(Marcus- you also saw Gypsi, Jiffer and myself as we were leaving. ;) )
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gypsi
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response 88 of 124:
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Jul 12 16:33 UTC 2000 |
Yup...I waved and said, "Hi Marcus!" Wasn't sure if you recognized us, though.
=)
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srw
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response 89 of 124:
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Jul 13 05:27 UTC 2000 |
I totally missed the whole production, but I am very glad that the folks
who worked so hard to promote Grex had so much success with this
project. Now I am wondering whether I can obtain any of those "extra"
magnets.
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mdw
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response 90 of 124:
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Jul 13 06:22 UTC 2000 |
Oops. Yes, I remember seeing an attractive lady I thought might be
birdlady, with a collection of friends heading rapidly the other way.
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glenda
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response 91 of 124:
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Jul 13 11:57 UTC 2000 |
The extra magnets are at our house, arrangements can probably be made.
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ea
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response 92 of 124:
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Jul 13 22:13 UTC 2000 |
We might want to think about giving away some magnets during Art Fair.
I could probably convince the CTN powers that be to let me hand out
magnets from their booth when I'm there, espicially since they took
AALINC (and it's Grex ad) down.
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eeyore
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response 93 of 124:
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Jul 14 04:52 UTC 2000 |
How many magnets do we have left?
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glenda
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response 94 of 124:
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Jul 14 12:04 UTC 2000 |
STeve guesstimates about 170.
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tsty
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response 95 of 124:
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Jul 14 13:31 UTC 2000 |
out of a thousand??????
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krj
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response 96 of 124:
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Jul 14 14:50 UTC 2000 |
I'm holding perhaps another 150-200 magnets.
I have some distribution obligations to cover with that stock --
making sure all those who gave money to the project get some,
and also sending some to some active users who have asked nicely.
There's no way I will get that completed before Art Fair.
I'm in no hurry to move out the rest of the magnets. Unless
some other people are feeling extra-generous, there won't be
more of them. Since we don't have a presence
in a booth at art fair, I guess I feel like giving the magnets out
there would be sort of like throwing them up in the air in a
crowd of 100,000. My inclination would be to hoard the remaining
stock for some future Grex-ish event.
(It would be nice to do a non-profit booth at Art Fair like M-net
used to do. However, it is a major volunteer commitment
to build, transport, assemble and disassemble the booth;
and to keep it staffed through the three work days of the fair.
I'm not clear that we have the resources to do this.)
If we could get flyers at art fair that would be great;
flyers are cheap and we can get more easily.
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jep
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response 97 of 124:
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Jul 14 18:30 UTC 2000 |
A few of us built the M-Net Art Fair booth in a couple of hours. M-Net
isn't using it any more; it may still be around somewhere, and if it is,
I'd be shocked if Arbornet wouldn't let Grex borrow it. It's no good
for this year, obviously; you have to reserve Art Fair space months in
advance. There's plenty of time for next year, probably.
Arbornet took in a lot of money from selling manuals and "Internet
accounts" in the early days when Internet access was expensive and rare
and new.
We also had a terminal connected to M-Net for several years. This was
kind of interesting to a few people; they'd come down and log in and
hang around in party. I don't think we gained any new users from this,
because the ones who logged in from the Art Fair booth were almost
always existing users. We didn't benefit from publicity, there were
dozens of non-profits with brochures, and people just plain didn't want
them. They got scattered all over the area, and were a nuisance.
What they wanted was to buy something. Anything. People who'd never
heard of M-Net wanted to buy t-shirts, sweatshirts, any kind of
souvenir, and in a few cases, the terminal. We could have sold the
users who were hanging around, as slaves. (I wish I'd thought of
this 5 years ago.) Sell cans of pop, bottled water, coffee, doughnuts,
the Grex stock of t-shirts and sweatshirts, those magnets, tours of the
Pumpkin, autographs from luminaries like mdw and katie. Print out some
ASCII pictures, frame them, and sell them as art (you could do worse),
or glue together computer components and sell them as "cyber-sculpture".
But don't run a booth if you're not selling something. People get
annoyed and stomp off and look for the next booth.
I don't think anyone really wanted Internet connectivity through M-Net,
they just wanted to spend their money. We had something cheap they
could buy.
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gypsi
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response 98 of 124:
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Jul 14 18:41 UTC 2000 |
Heh...that sums up Art Fair *perfectly*. =)
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gelinas
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response 99 of 124:
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Jul 14 19:50 UTC 2000 |
As of last night, Washtenaw Non-profits still had two booths available. I
was going to register for one of them today, but the gang decided they didn't
have enough volunteers to staff the thing. John would probably be quite happy
to get a few more groups in.
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krj
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response 100 of 124:
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Jul 14 20:08 UTC 2000 |
Heh, perhaps this is what we should do with the remaining Grex Store
slow moving T-shirts and mugs. :)
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jiffer
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response 101 of 124:
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Jul 14 20:37 UTC 2000 |
Well, i plan to post what is available still with our Grex Shop this weekend.
So... get our your wallets kids, the Grex Store is opening!
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danr
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response 102 of 124:
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Jul 14 20:38 UTC 2000 |
No need to hang on to any magnets for me, Ken. I got a couple of them at TOP.
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aruba
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response 103 of 124:
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Jul 14 21:14 UTC 2000 |
Mee too.
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