<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Thanks, Rubin. That’s worked out well for you, given the context of the remarks about Noisebridge here. Don’t you have people to go threaten to punch in the face now?</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Luckily, my hackerspace is hitting its fourth year this month and isn’t a running joke or an object lesson in how not to do things. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div> <div style="color:black"><br>From: <span style="color:black">Rubin Abdi</span> <a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net">rubin@starset.net</a><br>Reply: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Date: <span style="color:black">April 4, 2014 at 2:04:20 PM</span><br>To: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> Re: [hackerspaces] Failing/failed hackerspaces <br></span></div><br> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">On Apr 4, 2014 2:00 PM, "Al Billings" <<a href="mailto:albill@openbuddha.com">albill@openbuddha.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Why do the doors have to be “wide open?"</p><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">To keep folks like you out.</p></div></span></blockquote> <div id="bloop_sign_1396645590279193856" class="bloop_sign"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"></span>-- <br>Al Billings<br>http://makehacklearn.org<div><br></div></div></body></html>