It had been a while since I’d been to a hockey game. Decided it was time to take in a Thrashers game at Philips Arena. Got a couple of $10 seats way up in the nosebleed section. Surprisingly, the view wasn’t bad at all. Hey, at least we could see the puck flying around, so I can’t complain.
Frankly, it would have been more fun if the Thrashers didn’t get shut out by Toronto.
At least there was sumo hockey!
We went to JapanFest Saturday. Lots of vendors hawking their wares, a few food vendors, but we missed the good stuff and some of the lines were too long.
All the pictures can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/boredandblogging/tags/japanfest/
While preparation for the Gutsy installfest has begun, the Georgia US Team will be holding a Gutsy release party in the metro Atlanta area in a few weeks:
Meehan’s has wifi, so bring along your laptops.
Just like the installfest, Joshua Chase did a great job finding a place to hold the release party.
So, if you are in the Atlanta metro area and would like to be notified of the details as the date gets closer, please join the mailing list, keep an eye on the wiki, or drop by #ubuntu-georgia on irc.freenode.net.
The RoboCup 2007 competition is being held this week at the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta.
What is RoboCup? From the main site:
RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related field. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries. The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is ‘By 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer.’
Nearly 1700 students and faculty from 300 teams and 117 countries will be competing in events ranging from four-legged and humanoid robotic soccer games to search-and-rescue competitions. Here are some images from RoboCup 2006:
More pictures from RoboCup 2006 can be found here. There is a Flickr pool for pictures from RoboCup 2007 here.
Finals for the various competitions will be July 7th and 8th. Stop by if you are in the area.
Web Worker Daily has a post about the city of Atlanta hooking up with Earthlink to provide a city-wide wifi service. Check out the Earthlink press release here. It probably won’t be cheap, but its better than nothing.
