- Location
- Retired in Minneapolis
Back in the spring of 1996 I logged onto the Internet for the first time. The first place that I logged in was the ISA website. Those were some Wild West times! The first person that I could identify by cyber personality was a fellow with the screen name "Doublebraid" He and I shared a couple of other firsts. The first person I chatted with off the forum and the first person that I met face to face. True to his writing, he was pretty much what I expected in person, just a little shorter 
In late September of 2001 I spent an evening with him at his house. Got to have dinner and see that he was the same person the whole time. Know who this is? Glen Riggs
Since those days I've met many other people in the forums and had the great pleasure of becoming personal friends with lots of them. The ISA forum had a couple of lives and now has flat-lined it seems. Still, I had a great time during the arcs of existence. Doug Mellor's site was almost other-wordly. Lots of tree talk but it was more heady and etherial. It's too bad that there isn't a record of those discussions.
These days there seems to be some of the same group participating on Tree Buzz and Arboristsite. There is definetly a different feeling at the two sites I think. Or, is my view skewed? This is a value judgement or meant to be competitive at all.
For a long time I've envisioned Tree Buzz as a Cafe. Mark asked if I'd like to get together and hang out a shingle. Seems like a great idea. Since we opened the Cafe has expanded. That's great, we're happy to have a place for our new and old friends to get together.
In my head I have a vision of what the Tree Buzz Cafe looks like. How about a game of design the Cafe? Taking up where the picture game has gone, I'll add a piece and then add what you'd like to see or maybe others have an idea of what the place would look like if we actually were a "bricks" entity instead of just "clicks"
Out front, I see a sign hanging, swinging in the breeze. Made from some quarter sawn burr oak from a tree that I had to remove. The words "Tree Buzz Cafe" are cut into both sides using a chainsaw. The sign hangs from a couple of j-lags that have retired biners clipped to the brackets that are bolted to the front of the Cafe building.
Anything else outside? Is it time to decorate the inside?
Tom
http://www.isa-arbor.com/archives/isa/treeclimbers/1997/
In late September of 2001 I spent an evening with him at his house. Got to have dinner and see that he was the same person the whole time. Know who this is? Glen Riggs Since those days I've met many other people in the forums and had the great pleasure of becoming personal friends with lots of them. The ISA forum had a couple of lives and now has flat-lined it seems. Still, I had a great time during the arcs of existence. Doug Mellor's site was almost other-wordly. Lots of tree talk but it was more heady and etherial. It's too bad that there isn't a record of those discussions.
These days there seems to be some of the same group participating on Tree Buzz and Arboristsite. There is definetly a different feeling at the two sites I think. Or, is my view skewed? This is a value judgement or meant to be competitive at all.
For a long time I've envisioned Tree Buzz as a Cafe. Mark asked if I'd like to get together and hang out a shingle. Seems like a great idea. Since we opened the Cafe has expanded. That's great, we're happy to have a place for our new and old friends to get together.
In my head I have a vision of what the Tree Buzz Cafe looks like. How about a game of design the Cafe? Taking up where the picture game has gone, I'll add a piece and then add what you'd like to see or maybe others have an idea of what the place would look like if we actually were a "bricks" entity instead of just "clicks"
Out front, I see a sign hanging, swinging in the breeze. Made from some quarter sawn burr oak from a tree that I had to remove. The words "Tree Buzz Cafe" are cut into both sides using a chainsaw. The sign hangs from a couple of j-lags that have retired biners clipped to the brackets that are bolted to the front of the Cafe building.
Anything else outside? Is it time to decorate the inside?
Tom
http://www.isa-arbor.com/archives/isa/treeclimbers/1997/
