HR Geeks

Gather round ye nerds
Coasters, Coupons, were Conversed
Many attended

So, last night produced quite a reasonable turnout, however not prime in magnitude. As in the past, I’ll try to recall the attendance: Jody, BSD Bandit, Sunpuke, Tele, Mark G, TJ, Andrew, Dave, Bill, and myself (enferex). This is not a static association of people to chairs (e.g. order), as we are human and exemplify dynamic properties. Thus, people move around and change sitting order. Phrase of the evening “grind-core.”

-Matt (enferex)

It seems that some of us will be attending Shmoocon in DC this year. So, if anyone happens to show up at the meeting, drop a comment or write a post to let us attending Shmoocon know whats up!

Also, this upcoming meeting will mark the 7th anniversary of HR 2600, as February 2003 was the first gathering.

-Matt (enferex)

As in the past, we converged upon a table, or two, within the food court of the mall. As I arrived the meeting was already rocking, in attendance was Sunpuke, Jody, Tele, Remad, Dave, and myself. (Order derived from where I was sitting and iterating in a clockwise fashion). Fun meeting, as we did become like a pack of nomads in search of collaboration and variety, we decided to move the meeting to Kelly’s (also in the mall), which is open late, and allowed people with a penchant for the distilled beverage to imbibe. The meeting continued until midnight, and then disbanded.

Overall, the meeting was great, and I think the moving from the food-court was a great decision, and just goes to show that pseudo-random variety can enhance the social efforts of a group, as was seen by this possibly being the longest running HR-2600 episode. So… a buttload, yes, is a unit of measure. But, is there a platinum SI unit for this?

-Matt (enferex)

I’ve added 2 new users groups to the side bar:

• Hampton Roads Solid Works User Group (run by Jason McCrory)
• 757 Objective C / Cocoa-heads (run by Ken Collins)

Be sure to give them a look, and go to the meetings if they’re in your area of interest!

Things lined up right, and I was headed to DC for a data center visit for work so I made the most of my trip. I had lunch with Curt, a DC local I know from the diving forum (who also has computer skills) and then broke for the DC 2600. They start later, due to the traffic. I visited the old mall, and it looks so much smaller now that we have MacArthur center.

Having heard that the prior meeting had 17 or so, I looked forward to it. At first there was 2 folks, and then it turns out 4 others were in a different part of the restaurant. Everyone moved outside, and a few others joined. Overall it was pretty cool, but attendance was low due to the holiday. I told them I’d return in the future and perhaps bring more locals. Their meeting moved from the Pentagon City Fashion Center mall to a food place (similar to our HRGeeks meetings really). There seemed to be confusion on the location as the magazine just updated the info.

I’ll drop in again, but next trip it’s back to Raleigh unless I’m in DC already.