Likemind.orl and Drupal June 19, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Drupal, Events, Coffee, floridacreatives, Likemind.orl, Teaching, open source , 2 commentsIn about 10 hours a group of likeminded folks will get together for good coffee and conversations with friends and strangers. We do this once a month at the Lake Eola Panera Bread.
Likemind Orlando is part of a larger group of events which started in New York with two guys who were having good conversations online, and decided to move them to the coffee shop. Their friends in other cities liked the idea, and now, Likemind groups meet in more than 50 cities around the world on the same day every month.
Chris Scott will now be officiating over Likemind with me, since Alex left and got himself a house and a life on the East Coast (of Florida). Congrats and best of luck to Alex and Kathryn.
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Also coming up in the next few days is the 3rd installment of he Florida Drupal User’s Group. Myself and Mike Anello will be teaching classes on CCK and Views, respectively. You are all certainly invited to check out this event and ask tons of questions - we have left ourselves 4 hours to cover these topics, as each of them is kind of a big deal on its own.
You can get information and directions about how to get to the MindComet offices on groups.drupal.org/florida - the office is in Maitland.
Florida Drupal Group
Saturday, June 21st
1pm - 4pm
MindComet - Maitland
Coffee Pr0n with your morning Blogroll December 10, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Podcasts, Links, HowTo, Video, Coffee, TV , add a comment
Boing Boing TV is an utterly amazing show. Watch it. Daily.
Coffee aficionado Mark Frauenfelder demonstrates his favorite portable coffee maker, the Aeropress, and makes a delicious cup of methamphetamine-free espresso (Intelligentsia Coffee’s “Black Cat” variety, to be precise). While you’re enjoying that first cup, watch this mesmerizing gogo dancer, Miss Foxie Moxie.
Florida Creatives Happy Hour 6/18 June 15, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Site News, Markteting, Podcasts, Orlando, Events, Beer, Coworking, Coffee, Trends, MySpace, Liberatr, floridacreatives, Likemind.orl, Facebook, Virb , add a commentThird week of the month, the two events we host come around, and I blog/email/post the hell out of it! First of all is likemind.orl at Lake Eola Panera Bread, that happened already this morning, but it happens every month. Alex Rudloff and Ryan Price (that’s me) host this event for… well… anyone in Orlando! The likemind.us fellas in New York got a very nice company named Anomaly to send us some coffee/bagel money, so come for free coffee and good conversation.
Now, for the big news - Florida Creatives Happy Hour is turning 7 months old! Officially our baby is 27 weeks along in its development (but been drinking since day 1? ouch!). I’m really hoping we will be able to get some presence in the local schools once the next year gets started, so I’d like to have a short directed discussion about that, maybe record it, when we feel like we’ve got “quorum” (enough people to make decisions). John Rife is supposed to be returning from his trip this week, so I’m sure he’ll have stories to share. I’ve also spent the last 2 months on a big recruiting push, and just sent a couple of fresh emails today to local illustrators/podcasters. Not to mention the social networking groups and doing lots of outreach there too. If you’re on Upcoming (meaning you have a Yahoo ID), Facebook, VIRB or MySpace, join the groups. Don’t forget the mailing list.
Event Page & RSVP
Monday, June 18, 2007
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
crooked bayou
50 E Central Blvd # D
Orlando, Florida 32801
If you’ve never been to a happy hour, all you need to know is BE YOURSELF. We have a very casual atmosphere at Florida Creatives, and we are mostly made up of people who want to make some friends who are passionate about the same things they are. In addition to likeminded friends, we are most of us interested in learning about other disciplines, so we are here to learn as well. Last but not least, there are some of us who want to see this community thrive, and what we can accomplish by getting organized. Admission is free, business cards are plentiful, discussion is honest and friendly. Check us out.
Mr. A for Effort 3/27: 1938 Media March 27, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Site News, Blogging, Podcasts, Orlando, Links, Quotes, Events, Video, Coffee, Reviews, Trends, MySpace, Web Sites, Mr. A for Effort, floridacreatives, podtech, Revver, Likemind.orl , 4 commentsRyan Price with a Beard gives a shout out to Loren Feldman from 1938Media.com and a handful of people on my personal A-List. I also reveal my discovery of Likemind.us and therefore part of the inspiration to start my own group is thanks to Loren. How crazy is that?
I thought about using R*vv*r to post this video, but when you even post their URL in MySpace it comes out like … instead of what it should be, and I occasionally re-post to MySpace. For Orlando Scene TV it is worth the effort, but not for these.
For the uninitiated, here are the Alex and Gavin I name check in the video - they do cool stuff like Emurse and the pop-ification of Twitter. If you don’t know Josh Hallet yet, just go subscribe to his blog - don’t think twice. He put on the BlogOrlando UnConerence, which was a huge pot-stirring event here in town.
Loren and I also have another very obvious thing in common: “Media.com” — 1938Media.com, RyanPriceMedia.com, eh? Keep up the good work, man
likemind.orl - because drinking good coffee with likeminded people is fun February 9, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Site News, Career, Markteting, Blogging, Podcasts, Orlando, Links, Events, Coworking, Coffee, Web Sites, floridacreatives , add a commentlikemind is a syndicated networking event, a bit like Florida Creatives on a national scale, one might say. Whatever it is, Noah has been very helpful and dedicated to making sure their (he and Piers’) vision is realized in other cities around the world.
likemind.us Hosted on ZooomrAlex has kindly agreed to be my co-organizer for this Orlando Enthusiasts flavor of Likemind. We hope to see you there!
Temporary Insanity February 7, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Site News, Career, Markteting, Blogging, Podcasts, Orlando, Cervo, SEO, Music, Links, Drupal, Events, Video, Film, Coffee, Reviews, Trends, Standards, Design, Earth, Travel, MySpace, Liberatr, Web Sites, floridacreatives , add a commentDon’t ask me why, but I just wrote a song. I don’t write songs, but this one just kind of got stuck in my head and I didn’t know who to share it with, so i wrote it down - with chords and everything.
It’s about evil Starbuck’s Coffee and (partly) how it makes me run to the toilet.
I used my little Casio keyboard from like 20 years ago — if that doesn’t date me, what will? It still has all the stickers on the white keys with the little
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There are also brand new episodes of Shrink your Ecological Footprint and You can’t spell crapface without PFA from this weekend posted. Those are two podcast talkshows I record with my friends, the first over Skype to Arizona, and the second locally in my living room with a sweet echo. (really)
On Sunday, I am getting jazzed up about having our #3 installment of Florida Creatives Happy Hour at the Copper Rocket starting after 3PM. Immediately before that is the Enzian’s #2 installment of the Indie Film Slam revival.
Tomorrow John Rife and I are getting together at Dandelion to talk about refreshing his videoblog a bit in anticipation of a major road trip (he will be phoning home every few days with a new video). We are planning on doing some Google Maps mashup stuff as well as the standard blogging/feeds thing. I am hoping to be able to get some microformats in there as well. I would like for John to be discoverable by people outside of Orlando who might happen by. I know YouTube has (some imitation of) geo-identification, but I don’t think it gets included in the search results. Tagging and research will help, and reciprocal links (as many as we can get). I hope John meets some bloggers along the way, and makes plenty of MySpace friends.
This will be a fun 3 months of online marketing blitz, especially considering that the location (not virtually, but physically) and focus of the content will be changing almost every day.
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Last but not least, the very talented Damien McKenna has been acting as my second set of hands this week, doing some work on a Drupal 5 site for a client. He just got this very spiffy and finally bug-free system going where you add an image (or several images) to your node (this one’s for a single project in a portfolio). Once you save the form, a module called imagecache auto-generates thumbnails for you. Last but not least, these images are munged into links to one of those spiffy AJAX image boxes, like lightbox or in this case thickbox.
The payoff? Instant photo gallery. Pats on the back for Damien.
If you’re still reading, thanks for enduring. I haven’t written many posts like this since my LiveJournal days. The last two I’ve done have been videos.
Finally Using My French Press for Coffee October 25, 2006
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Coffee, Wikipedia, Reviews , add a commentReally, this blog post is an experiment to see how many Gevalia Coffee ads I pull and how much comment spam I get by tomorrow, but just for fun:
Wikipedia answers the age-old question: What is a French Press?
I used my French Press (Webster Flea Market, $4) for the first time today and I must say I am pleased. Now I have one method of obtaining hot water for all my beverages, and that’s the tea pot. Instead of having to load grounds in the Mr. Coffee, measure out the water, wash the carafe, load the beans in the filter, pour the water, all that junk, I just have one vessel for my coffee, and one way to heat it. My roommate has been talking about getting a single-cup or pod coffee maker like a Senseo, but I remembered my French Press and I must say I like it. Now I’m not wasting money on a fancy machine.
If you are in town, come over and I’ll make you a cup. Decaf or regular? I even have hazelnut CoffeeMate in the fridge.
