- A proposal for an in-person “transhumanist bootcamp” was floated, with participants debating whether it should be free, online, or a paid, high-touch program; kanzure estimated that a serious residential version would cost “thousands of bucks per person.”  
- The idea of a “transhumanist fight-camp” was jokingly suggested as an alternative funding model—mutual combat training instead of tuition.  
- DIYbio was invoked as a tongue-in-cheek revenue source: engineering bacteria to convert waste into cocaine to finance the bootcamp.  
- Backbone.js emerged as the recommended front-end framework for a new project; kanzure advised studying its example apps and learning about JavaScript “futures and promises,” while klafka wrestled with Crockford’s admonition to avoid the new keyword.  
- Practical Backbone questions included how to populate a Collection directly from a REST endpoint that returns simple JSON arrays like [{foo:1,bar:2}, …].  
- Juul requested pointers to open 3-D model repositories for printable musical instruments; kanzure pointed primarily to Thingiverse and secondarily to commercial libraries such as 3dpartsstream and traceparts.  
- eudoxia announced that the “XFF videos” (presumably Extreme Futurist Festival talks) had been posted online, reacting with simultaneous laughter and tears at their content.