Hitchgathering 2011 Artwork

Only 36 days away... Who knows if I make it this year. I am sure it's gonna be a great festival!

And the one in North-America is due even sooner... in a couple of weeks.

Artwork is by artymori

Back for a bit... And everything is just fine

I am absolutely stunned. There are moments I stimply can't believe that I have been “doing” this Casa experience for more than three years now. Where is this leading to, I ask myself regularly. Are we "there" already, or what are the other directions that haven't been followed yet? Is this going to close one day or are we simply moving further?

Super Massive Vegan Pancake Sunday

3 Jul 2011 11:01
Europe/Amsterdam
Location: 
Te Casa
Post CHCHEQ2011

SUNDAY MORNING.
Wake up!
Get near to the kitchen sometime around the morning.
Bring with you a vegan topping of some kind. I like sweet stuff so maybe lots of maple syrup.
I, Richard "the pancake king" will make some pancakes, just going to go crazy and probably make a whole 35cent packet of flour worth of pancakes....
You, the rest of the world, will bring stuff to put on top, or maybe some coffee or maybe some donation especially for the soon to arrive gas stove knobs...
BRING ONLY VEGAN PRODUCTS. AND PREFERABLY LOCALLY PRODUCED/FAIRTRADE PRODUCTS

Thursday Open Dinner

16 Jun 2011 20:48
Europe/Amsterdam
Location: 
El Casa
Thursday Open Dinner

Come join in on the most sustainable dinner in amsterdam. Saving the food we'll eat before it goes to its early grave from the local markets, then bringing it back and sharing ideas with one another about how we can turn our findings into an amazing culinary delight.

Turn up to the casa around 4pm and we'll go to the market, or later and we'll go to a few other dumpsters.

Cooking will probably start around 8pm and eating at some time beyond that.

Bring some thing to share if you feel like it.

Surfing on Abundance

Two months ago already a journalist approached me in response to the dumpster dive tour we organised in Den Haag in March. He was working on an article on freeganism and was looking for some people who could help him out.

memcache for sustainable web serving?

MySQL was just down again. I've checked the slow query logs and it's casa casa casa.

Now, my friend Marcus is finishing a new video for the Gathering and this server shouldn't go down after release so I hope memcache will make the casa site a bit more sustainable ;)

I also disabled the recent changes module - it was also appearing in the logs a couple of times and I don't think it's that necessary.

Thursday Night Open Dinner

11 Aug 2011 16:29
11 Aug 2011 23:29
Europe/Amsterdam
Location: 
casa robino
Thursday Night Open Dinner

Come over for the weekly open dinner/potluck on Thursday night. Come before 4.30 if you also would like to go D-diving with us or take your own initiative (check http://trashwiki.org).

Come early enough to cook, to talk and to eat. Dinner usually served between 9 and 11.

Do you want to come but don't have directions? Reply or contact us with some heavenly wrong guidance's ;)

giveaway sites - things for free

these 2 sites can be very useful if the Casa needs something:
http://www.gratisaftehalen.nl
http://www.gratisoptehalen.nl
people post there if they have something they dont need, and want to get rid of it. You go for it and it's yours.
Although it's in dutch, but google translator is magic.

Thursday Night Open Dinner

2 Jun 2011 16:29
Europe/Amsterdam
Location: 
casa robino
Thursday Night Open Dinner

Come over for the weekly open dinner on Thursday night. Come before 4.30 if you also would like to go diving with us or take your own initiative (check http://trashwiki.org).

Come early enough to cook, to talk and to eat. Dinner usually served between 9 and 11.

Do you want to come but don't have directions? Reply or give one of the hosts a mail and we'll mail you some heavenly wrong direction's ;)

Social media changes our way of communicating, but for better or worse?

Zeynep Tufecki writes on his blog "Technosociology": "What we are seeing with social media is the public sphere, hitherto dominated by written culture, has been more opened up to oral psychodynamics."