Language Geekery

[mattp]

One of the projects I've been involved in over the past year or so is London Hackspace. Basically,a load of geek have grouped together and formed a social club with lots of cool kit - laser cutters, lathes, pillar drills, electronics stuff, etc.

Last night, one other member and I gave a series of talks on speech and language: etymology, forensic linguistics, conlangs, speech synthesis, BSL and IPA. It was awesome, awesome fun. For those of you who missed it but might like to have seen any of these topics then they were recorded and put online at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hackspace-london-talks . I'm hoping to get them edited and cut into topic segments, but for the impatient feel free to dive right in.

My mum (a fellow polyglot and linguaphile) and my sister (who took photos) both came along, and after we went out for a wonderful Vietnamese meal. I got in around 1am, not able to sleep due to buzzing with adrenaline and enthusiasm.

A++ would do again.

Comments

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

Hackspace sounds awesome.

[mattp.livejournal.com]

It totally is. I've updated the entry to contain a link to the place; I was a bit trigger happy with the "post" button.

[hannah-honey.livejournal.com]

mattp, you're actually my favourite geek ever. :D

x

[mattp.livejournal.com]

I am most humbled.

[ludy]

that is very cool

And a Mechanised Woodlouse Maze is the coolest piece of lab equipment ever!

[mattp.livejournal.com]

I had no idea we had one of those! I've seen the mouse-maze though. (The walls aren't especially high, and the mice just climbed over)

[lovingboth]

I keep meaning to do this, thanks for the reminder.

[bethanthepurple.livejournal.com]

Sounds awesome. They doing anything over the next week?

[mattp.livejournal.com]

Tuesdays are the weekly social meet. This coming Thursday there'll be an Esperanto lesson. There might be other stuff planned, but I don't know off-hand. It's both a good and a bad thing that so much happens that it's too much to keep track of.

[hughe.livejournal.com]

i really should start coming along to these.

[mattp.livejournal.com]

Tuesdays are the weekly social meet, but you can turn up any time so long as someone is around to let you in. (Check on IRC or on the webcams)

[hughe.livejournal.com]

ooh there's tools! what's the big red machine?

[mattp.livejournal.com]

A laser cutter. It's *awesome*.

[mattp.livejournal.com]

There's also an open day on Sunday 7th from 1pm until 11pm.

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