LAMALUG

Join us this Thursday, February 21st, as Jonathan Stars interviews Constance Conklin about her work with Federal and state officials as a documents specialist on investigations such as the Oklahoma City bombing, counterfeit money scams and digital documents fraud. We’ll also focus on how you can protect yourself from identity theft. Constance is an LCC Art professor and a member of the Midwestern Association of Forensic Scientists. Do not miss what should prove to be one of our most fascinating presentations!

Please note that we have been assigned room 165 this month. If 161 does not have a class in it, we’ll move back there—so look for the signs, then look to see who is in the room. The rooms are next door to each other.

NOTE: new meeting format:

6:30 – General Announcements & Main Presentation

7:15 – Presentation Q&A

7:30 – Raffle drawing

7:35 – General Q&A

Topic: Archive your video tapes with iMovie 9

WHERE: MSU’s Comm Arts building (WKAR), room 165 (look for our LAMALUG signs). See map links below.

Join us this Thursday, January 17, as Jonathan Stars shows us how to archive your home movies and other video tapes using iMovie 9. Those old tapes are deteriorating as you read this. But besides that, iMovie 9 may be different from the version you’ve been using. Get the up-to-date skinny on how to use its features.

Please note that we have been assigned room 165 this month. If 161 does not have a class in it, we’ll move back there—so look for the signs, then look to see who is in the room.

AND: Everyone is welcome to come to the afterglow at the Pizza House restaurant in the Hannah Plaza on Hagedorn Road following the meeting.

6:30 Q & A – This is our regular session open to everybody.

RAFFLE
You must be a paid up member to pick up your free ticket at the door. Just one more reason to be a member! (Bring your cash or checkbooks.) The raffle is always held at the end of the meeting.

LOCATION & PARKING INFO. Here are two links to maps:

http://bit.ly/CommArts

http://maps.msu.edu/interactive/index.php?location=com

If you use the first map, it’s the balloon marked with the letter “A” over on the right side (you may have to scroll the map a little). If you expand and zoom in on the map you’ll see the parking ramp just to the south where we have free parking starting at 6:00. (There are meters, but you don’t have to feed them after 6 PM.) Come in the doors closest to the parking ramp. Room 161 is on the north side of the building (far from the parking ramp). Look for the LAMALUG signs.

Notice: New Room – Comm Arts (WKAR) – at MSU.

Topic: TBA: To be announced / MacGurus / Raffle, This Thursday, January 19, 6:30 PM (main meeting Q&A)

WHERE: MSU Communications Arts Building, room 155. It’s on the north side of the building.

AND: Everyone is welcome to come to the afterglow at the Pizza House restaurant in the Hannah Plaza on Hagedorn Road following the meeting.

MACGURUs
Take advantage of our MacGurus, where paid up members can get one-on-one help for a few minutes with knowledgeable members of our group. MacGurus starts at 6:00. Your turn will be on a first-come, first-served basis, so get there early. Organize your question because if others are waiting, we will limit your session to 10 minutes. (You may be able to arrange an outside meeting if you need more time.) MacGurus is limited to a half hour total (three 10-minutes sessions) since we don’t want our gurus to miss the main meeting. And besides, we need them to answer questions during the Q & A!

6:30 Q & A – This is our regular session open to everyone.

RAFFLE
You must be a paid up member to pick up your free ticket at the door. Just one more reason to be a member! (Bring your cash or checkbooks.) The raffle is always held at the end of the meeting.

LOCATION & PARKING INFO. Here are two links to maps:

If you use the first map, it’s the balloon marked with the letter “A” over on the right side (you may have to scroll the map a little). If you expand and zoom in on the map you’ll see the parking ramp just to the south where we have free parking starting at 6:00. (There are meters, but you don’t have to feed them after 6 PM.) Come in the doors closest to the parking ramp. Room 161 is on the north side of the building (far from the parking ramp). Look for the LAMALUG signs.

Do you have a favorite application that you just can’t wait to share with others?  This Thursday night, we’ll be giving you the chance to demonstrate your software or hardware.  If you have a laptop, iPad or iPhone that you can use to demonstrate from, then you are all set – just come to the meeting and sign up on the sheet at the front of the room when you get there.  But if you will need to borrow a laptop to demonstrate software that is on your home desktop computer, please let us know (by email) before Thursday.  (Of course, if you want to bring your two-ton desktop machine, the monitor, and all the cables and “stuff,” well, I guess that’s fine.  We’ll help as we can.)

Rules:

• Don’t demonstrate anything that is obscene or illegal
• Sign up for each demonstration when you get to the meeting (the order will be determined when we start)
• We want to encourage many people to demonstrate, so if you have more than one demonstration, please understand we’ll rotate through all the other people first, then come back for seconds. (And be sure to save room for dessert at the After Glow following the meeting!)

Check back here to see the details of the demo’s after the meeting.