The Nork Creations For The Create96 Show-And-Tell #FF @wordmason @jkubarych @create96 #NHV #SWCT

I love how my good friend Aldon Hynes always puts up Follow Friday posts on his blog. 

I want to do a Create96 themed Follow Friday (#FF).

Tonight Friday 1/27/2012 is the Create96 show-and-tell - 6:30 at The Grove.

#FF Create96 Masterminds:

@wordmason - Mason Rabinowitz 

@jkubarych - Jeff Kubarych

@create96  - Create96.com

The Norks will be there in full force!

Evan will be unavailing the latest music video from his side-project band Synchron.

Hayden will be showing the slide show he made for the 2011 Robotics season to a rockin Led Zeppelin soundtrack.

Liam will be showing his Harry Potter Lego creation. (pictures to follow)

Ali and I will be announcing the launch of GiveLaptops.org

 

Give Laptops collects donated laptops less than 5 years old, refurbishes them in partnership with City Wide Youth Coalition

and distributes them through teacher partners directly to the children who could most benefit from a laptop.

Goal for 2012 is to distribute 24 laptops. For our pilot year, two schools have signed on:

• Amity High School in Woodbridge
• New Horizons High School in New Haven

We handed out our first laptop (donated by a fellow Grover) and have 3 more ready to be given to students.

If you would like to donate a laptop to the cause, please fill out the form here: http://givelaptops.org/donate-a-laptop

Create 96 Idea List.pdf Download this file

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Amity Teen Center Coats For Kids - 1,002 coats to give away!

Hello All;
The Amity Teen Center has acquired 1,002 brand new winter coats from Operation Warm in Pennsylvania.  Joyce Van Lines has graciously offered to pick up the coats in Pennsylvania and deliver them to the Amity Teen Center.  Joyce and Operation Warm are still working out the timing and logistics. In the mean time the teen center wanted to get the word out to organizations in the greater New Haven area that have children and teens in need. They would like to have all organizations fill out a coat request form to identify the number of coats in each size that their community could use this winter. Once the coats arrive they will coordinate with a representative from each organization come to the teen center to pick up all of their coats to distribute to their community.

Please have an organization representative fill out this form indicating the number of coats needed:
http://bit.ly/coats2012

The teen center would also like your help in identifying all organizations that could use new winter coats. Please share this message with any other organizations in the greater New Haven area that you think may have a need for brand new children's coats.

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Evan's English Report

Evan had to do an English report over Christmas Break so he decided to do it using Xtranormal Desktop. 

Kino_and_Doug_english_-_Final.mov Watch on Posterous

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Video Of The BMAD Solstice Bonfire 12/22/2011

Happy Solstice everyone!

I hope you enjoy this snippet of video as much as I do. My favorite part is at 1:10 when Bill is stoking the fire and causing sparks to fly up into the night sky!

 

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My Collaborative Consumption Wish List

As a techie geek I get asked for help from my friends all the time with setting up computers, recovering lost files and just about anything else you can think up.

I run a consulting business and charge a decent rate for my time but I always feel awkward charging friends.  I wrote a blog post about this back in October that's worth a read:

http://jcnork.posterous.com/creative-consumption-in-action

Since that time I have don't several collaborative deals and people have been asking me what they can trade so I made a quick list:

If you want to barter for service there are a few things I can think of off the top of my head that we could pick from:

• Watch people's kids at the Lakeview Lodge Concerts (www.lakeviewlodgemusic.org)
• Watch my kids so Ali and I can have a date night
• Clean my gutters
• Install a new mailbox
  
• Prepare dinner for the family
• Clean garage 
  
• Mount and frame 3  8x10 photos
• Fix the ceiling in my kitchen
• Put more insulation in my attic
• Purchase and install 4 guitar wall mounts
• Clean our windows
• Cut the dead branches out of the oak tree in my back yard

Some of these jobs are small and some are not but all things I would most likely need to pay someone to do for me.

With collaborative consumption everyone wins!

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Happy Thanksgiving! Meet the Parents - Saying Grace

Hope you have a wonderful day! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DlNF_ukr0I

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Music Video - "Electron City" by Synchron

I love this video by Synchron. My favorite part Is 0:39 to 0:49 :) I want a video of just that playing over and over. I have a request into Synchron to make it :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twA7fT67r8s

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Our First Letterbox - Naugatuck Forest Stonewall Letterbox

We stumbled across a letter box completely by accident last Sunday. The boys were so excited that they wanted to place their own in the woods. Our goal starting out this morning was to make it to Beacon Cap but I think we took a wrong turn somewhere along the way so we decided to leave our box in an old stone wall.

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Nork's Stonewall Letterbox Location:
	Latitude:	41.453997º N
	Longitude:	73.014420º W
	Altitude:	712 ft

View Norks Letterbox in a larger map

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Ricardo Montelfish is in the house!

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'Oh Yes We Did' - The Movie Trailer

The boys have been very productive with the iPad today. I laughed so hard when I watched this that I was crying :-D

Oh_Yes_We_Did_-_Movie_Trailer.m4v Watch on Posterous

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New Song From Jaco Flavorwax And Ricardo Montelfish - 'Don't Forget To Scrub Captain B'

Don't Forget To Scrub Captain B by Jaco Flavorwax & Ricardo Montelfish Listen on Posterous

New experimental rock from Jaco Flavorwax And Ricardo Montelfish
:-)

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Axel F iPad Symphony Video

My son was very inspired by the Amity Music In Motion performance of the Axel F iPad Symphony that he woke up early to work in Garage Band in Ali's iPad

http://qik.ly/IkeIj

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Derek Sivers Talks About What's Important For Entrepreneurs

I have been sharing this great video series by Derek Sivers, founder of CDBaby and author of the book Anything You Want and I thought it would be helpful to post these on my blog. Derek talks about his career and what he feels are the important aspects of entrepreneurship and life.

I encourage you to watch all 8 clips. It's totally worth your time!

 

 

Derek Sivers. Uncommon Sense. 1-of-8. Background.

Derek Sivers. Uncommon Sense. 2-of-8. Why are you doing?

Derek Sivers. Uncommon Sense. 3-of-8. Nobody knows the future.

Derek Sivers. Uncommon Sense. 4-of-8. Revolution.

Derek Sivers. Uncommon Sense. 5-of-8. Hit or switch.

Derek Sivers. Uncommon Sense. 6-of-8. Version 0.1

Derek Sivers. Uncommon Sense. 7-of-8. Ideas X Execution

Derek Sivers. Uncommon Sense. 8-of-8. CDBaby

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"Mickey come ovva for a potty!" Mickey Mouse Talking Phone

I have no idea why... But this commercial popped into my head just now...
My brother and I used to laugh at this every time it came on thinking the girl was asking Micky to use the potty :-D

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Camera Rifle

Got an extra $100k? 

You can bid on this rare Leica 'rifle' camera. I've never seen anything like it!

The Tamarkin Photographica Fall Auction will be held on Sunday, October 30, 2011 in Woodbridge, Connecticut.

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