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)

Happy new year… sure, it’s not based on a true lunar calendar, but ah, it’s periodic. Anyways, new year, and another meeting. Despite the mall closing early (6:00), Jody and myself did show up, thus upholding the existence of this edition of As The Nerds Tur (yes, I just applied verbage to Alan Turing’s last name and concept of Turing Machine). We chatted about stuff and then moved the meeting, temporarily, to B&N where we could browse some magazines, kill time, and hang.

FOSS for all!

-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)

Zoiks Shaggy! Nice turn-out out tonight, rather, last night. But time… can I impose some kind of restriction on a dimension I have seemingly little control over. Time is a human definition of some, pretty abstract, thing. So the order of sitting, while it does mutate during the course of the meeting, was at one time:
Tele, Remad, Paul’s girl, Paul, RD, Sunpuke, and myself.

And what was the topic of choice……… sensitive dependence on initial conditions (a definition of Chaos Theory). In other words, we had no planned topics, but we found enough order to communicate as a group. Also, the Bat Phone is no more, a Blackberry was dissected, pill-containers can hold lots of Torx, and corn own3s us.

-Matt (enferex)

Prime number off attendees. Of course, all meetings start like that, 1, 2, 3, ….. 5. 5 attendees ahhh hah hah (Count from Sesame Street). Those attendees being Remad, Tele, Wallybert, MarkG, and myself. It was a good meeting, with little if any cross-talk. Some discussion on previous Shmoos and HOPEs, along with some mention of this upcoming years Shmoo and HOPE. No need to elaborate any further, but did any one-catch what those illuminated jelly-looking things were at the Last HOPE?

-Matt (enferex)

Nice, chill, meeting this week. Lots of great talk and there was really little contention for talking. In attendance was Mark G, Paul, a brieeeefff appearance by Paul’s wife, the Spawn of Jody, Jody, Sunpuke, Remad, and myself. Some interesting discussions came up, such as music, queuing theory and its relation to real life, and table-to-chair-hight ratios. Short summary, however that factor should not be a testament to the meeting and its content. We stayed ’till kicked out. Ok, so “kicking-out” is a tad rough, we were nicely advised that the mall was closed.

-Matt (enferex)

Yeah, nice turn out. So this month, we had a really good attendance. But attendance does not matter so much, it is not like we are a cult and seek some kind of monetary profit from attendance. Rather, we seek intellectual contributions as a profit, thus mere attendance is not a function of output. However, attendance does provide a greater probability that unique discussions will surface. Even though we now center along-side a linear table, as opposed to a circular design, we can still have a great meeting. The turnout was quite interesting, we had, assuming the table is a graph and starting from the back edge, the nodes of communications were: Ninja Gumby, Ian, Jody, Skhisma, Mr Geeeeeee (with his eeeeEeeEeee) or at least a netbook of some form, cdated, Tom, RD, Grey, Dave, Tele, Remad, and myself. For some reason I feel like I’m missing a node, so if that is the case, just drop a comment. Aside from attendance, Tele was workin’ his stereo, that tried to eject itself earlier in the day; and Remad brought a great magazine that, some of us Conspiracy nuts *cough*me*cough*, really enjoyed. And no Sunpuke? Most of us figured he was probably either hanging out with Slayer, or at a metal show.

-Matt (enferex)

Quite a nice gathering this month, and that does not include the Twitter meetup, whom planed their meeting to coincide with ours. We still had a nice turn out. of our own. In attendance was Poseidon, Dave, Jody, the Spawn of Jody, Mark, Paul, Tele, Sunpuke, Remad, Derez, and myself. One of the people from the other meetup decided to hang with us for a while.

All in all, the meeting accomplished the dissemination of information in various forms. Information? Surely as we communicate, not all information is meaningful. Some might consider that if we try to reverse the Second Law of Thermodynamics (reverse entropy), and obtain meaning out of nothing, we might find a result of rather comical and potentially useful ideas. So how does that even pertain to what we talked about? No clue, but if we change our view of the discourse, we might arrive at neat conclusions. As you might have noticed, I tend not to actually elude much to our discussions here. So much is communicated, that creating a summary would be rather exhausting. So, really, we have no agenda, aside from just hanging out and being human.

-Matt (enferex)

Allright! May 1, and we still had a crowd. In attendance (initial seating order, no we are not sheeple) was RD, Dane, Dane’s Wife’s Eeeeeeeee, Dave, Sunpuke, Beck, and myself. Okokok, so an Eee does not really constitute as a living being, or does it? Since we only have a vague idea of what constitutes life…. probably has some carbon in there too.

The meeting was great, mall was quiet, and only a handful of people had their protective respiration masks on (ok actually no one had a mask on afaik). There was lots of talk. And talk of? Ahh many topics, I balk at providing actual topic data since. Anyways, even though we were not at a single round-table, our linear table arrangement worked well by leaving a gap between the tables. A linear configuration does not necessarily strengthen communication between nodes, as if we were some graph; However, our graph morphs by letting the nodes move around, and we can control the ordering and amplitude of our voices to accomplish the goals of expressing thoughts. This assumes that words really are a medium that is sufficient for exposing all data in a thought.

Where was tele? He caught up with the Raleigh 2600 crew, so hopefully they had a cool time too.

-Matt (enferex)