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WE’RE ALL READY TO GO FOR SUNDAY!!!

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We’ve been making some great progress on the Lumbering Contraption. We’ve only got a few more days to finish before bringing her out to Santa Rosa for the Handcar Regatta.
You can see Pictures of her in progress on my Flickr page,
http://flickr.com/photos/tomsepe/sets/72157607076970947/
\as well as some wonderfull photos and a bit of video by Nick Winterhalter on his Flickr page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/winterhalter/sets/72157607016106105/
I also posted a dark and mysterious video on YouTube of last night’s test run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxQ8I4818-w
Come on out this Sunday Sept 28th to us pit our invention against the other fabulous railcars at the Santa Rosa Handcar Regatta: http://handcar-regatta.com/

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Yeah! We finally got the boat out of the harbor. We don’t have an outboard motor (we’re trying to fix it) So Jeremey brought out his jetski incase we needed a tow. Here’s some more photos taken by Bena.

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I did a little digging now that tribe is up again and here are some info & links to explain what has been going on with Tribe.net

From what I understand, there is a very small crew of people keeping Tribe.net alive right now – I’m talking 2 – 4 people if I understand it correctly. They attempted to move the physical location of tribe.net from one set of computers to another, but a series of hardware and social problems have set in. Tangled wires, faulty equipment, politics, frayed nerves, rabid dogs and who knows what else.

I don’t think they succeeded in moving tribe’s servers, and the process of bringing it back online was anything but smooth, so once they got tribe plugged back in it kept crashing cause everyone was hitting it so hard trying to get back on!

Now apparently Darren Mckeeman – Operations Manager @ Tribe.net has resigned,
(read it here from on Darren’s twitter blog: http://twitter.com/tjcrowley ),

apparently because his co-worker Mark Pincus cursed at him:
http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2008/09/keeping-tribe-a.html

Meanwhile DJ Shatter has been helping put tribe back together,
http://people.tribe.net/the-shatter/blog/3e17d424-1c20-4889-ada4-65fd26403b6d

while also planning an escape route; a ning.com site for tribe refugees:
http://triberefugees.ning.com/

and then Shatter and his dog were attacked by a Pitbull:
http://shatter707.livejournal.com/387498.html

and his hands are all messed up.

So its seems like its a miracle that tribe is working at all, and it is also a very real possibility that unless some brilliant, amazing, dedicated hardworking people step-up to the plate, tribe may eventually collapse under its own weight.

If you want to get in on some discussions and be in contact with Mark Pincus:
http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2008/09/we-have-receive.html

Darren Mckeeman
darren@tribe.net
(and here is the official company blog: http://blog.tribe.net/ but don’t know how useful that is.)

Shatter:
http://twitter.com/Shatter242

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Yes we’re building a railcar – hand powered rail car. Actually ts more of a rail wheel – You can see pictures of in progress here

Wes Brain, from the Brain Labor Report, interviews Tom Sepe on June 3rd, 2008

The Brain Labor Report is live every morning M thru F for 1/2 hour at 7:00 a.m. through the awesome community services of KSKQ, lpfm radio in Southern Oregon. They can be listened to each morning on the internet, via streaming radio is.

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We now have a website devoted to our Tibet video project; digitaldharmafilms.org

Its based on the same Wordpress blogging software as this blog, and will provide a dedicated webspace for update about our film projects. We’ve already posted a few video clips which you can watch and comment on. We’ve also installed a forum which we hope will become a ace for discussion about the film. Please check it out!

Tom

We’ve had another epic couple of days. We have been so blessed.

Here’s some news:

1) Yesterday we interviewed Mr. Urgen Tenzin, the Executive Director
of the Tibetan Center for Human Rights And Democracy http://www.tchrd.org/

2) Today we filmed students singing and playing music at TIPA – the Tibetan Institute for Performing
Arts…

3) AND the big news is that we had an exclusive interview with Sondhum Rinpoche, the head of the Tibetan Governement in Exile! http://www.tibet.com/

The breaking news is that the Chinese Govt. as agreed to meet with the
Tibetan Parliament!

I’ve posted a bunch of photos on my flickr page:

On a more personal note – I shaved my head in solidarity:

Tom Sepe

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