Nodes of the Wondergeek Network
Last night, after everyone else had left the Granades’ hosting of the Tuesday Night Gathering (Where We Presumably Watch Angel Every Week, But Not Always)—a/k/a TNG(WWPWAEW,BNA)—Tim, Misty, and I stayed up talking for a while. [Read: Tim and I left at quarter 'til 11.] One of the many subjects we discussed were the nodes of the Huntsville network.
In any network of people, there will be nodes. In some groups, there is a single node–a shared school experience, employer, religion, etc.—and in fewer still, one person who is a node unto all.
Our group of friends isn’t that way at all.
Since this kind of thing interests me, I’m curious about it: how are we all connected? It’s a web, with more than a few nodes:
- The ADTRAN Horde.
- The Alabama Crowd [the school, not the state].
- The Arkansas Experience [which includes Ouachita].
- Discordia [that is the right name, eh?]
- Dragon*Con
- HiWAAY
- Linux.com.
- MSMS
- UAH
- The Wondergeek Apartment [although that's a subset of UAH, in some ways.]
I think that almost every one of the Wondergeeken is attached to the other through one of those nodes. I am attached through two of them–MSMS and UAH. Looking at it, Jeff is probably involved with the most of them: ADTRAN, Alabama, Discordia, Dragon*Con, and UAH. [To think: if Jeff had grown up about thirty miles to the west, he could have gone to MSMS, too. 
]
Are there other nodes that I’m missing? I think a nice little seminal document could come of this–how we’re all related, how we know each other. I think that’s important, because this group is, of course, ever-evolving: Kat and Sean are leaving us, as Heather and Jessica have before them. If you isolate the system to just Huntsville—which is a huge mistake!—you’ll have one of the nodes completely disappear from the network in another couple of weeks.
[N.B.: The longer that I sit here and work on this entry, the more nodes come to mind. I need to stop so that I can ask my question again.]
What other nodes connect the Wondergeek network?
Geof:
If I was really trying for the record, I might also argue that I could claim linux.com as well. I co-wrote an article there with Kat (and did a couple of live chats), and the editor was getting ready to publish a second article of mine (in a series) when the site went evil.
As for other links, you should probably mention ASMS as well. I know our group of friends has at least one connection there (Kat and Jessica).
May 12th, 2004 at 16:43Jeff, I was vaguely remembering
thatyou writing for Linux.com some when I posted, but as I noted, I kept coming up with more of them.I almost added ASMS, too, but … ASMS is for losers.
[Okay, I'm kidding.]
May 12th, 2004 at 16:45Jeff and I actually tie if you add in ASMS as a node. Another node, albeit a small one is XonTech, since both Heather and I worked there, but that one is about to be defunct in about 1 week.
Oh, and no worries. We’re not going to let you guys get rid of us. We’ll be back whenever we can get back.
May 17th, 2004 at 11:30Okay, I wasn’t thinking of that Jeff, and I hadn’t thought of Xontech.
And yes, I know that you two are like a bad STD.
May 17th, 2004 at 11:32