HR Geeks

Well, one great thing about the hacker community is the idea that no matter where you go (in the civilized world), you’re never toooo far from a 2600 meeting, e.g. friends. Well, as I bounced back from Melbourne to come here in Norfolk for a break, I decided to meet up with some friends and venture back to the ole’ 2600 at Pembroke. None-the-less some new faces were there.

We (Dave, Tele, and myself) arrived there and met up with John. Soon after, two new peeps showed up, followed by Jameson. I must say, we had some really cool discussions on the mind-twisting Derren Brown, quantum mechanics, fractals, etc. Afterwards, we took a nice stroll around Town Center.

It’s great to see the meeting is still kicking. A prime number is the word count for this very post.

-Matt (enferex)

I (Ethan) arrived at 6pm. One person was already at the table (will hold back name since I’m not sure if he cares about it being posted here,) a newcomer that decided to visit thanks to the recent letter that made it into 2600 regarding the local meeting! Way cool! We talked a while about various subjects, all over the place. Networking, programming, current events. We were then joined by TheRock who was back in town visiting from Richmond. Discussion carried onto mall closing. Total attendance was 3 people.

Also, Count updated the HRGeeks calendar to reflect the proper location for the meetings.

See you next month!

Hmm. I think there was a meeting. Hope it was fun!

Excuse the lack of useful information in this post. I do believe one can calculate the relevant_word_count to total word_count ratio, essentially obtaining a value that would generate the bullcrap-factor of a post. The closer to 1.0, the more relevant the post (i.e. less BS).

-Matt (enferex)

Sweet packed colon of digital transfer!  What a meeting!  Great turn out.  Could it possibly be the hinting of July 4th right around the corner, aka blow-crap-up day?  So, I’ll cut to the chase, the meeting attendance from my left.  Remember, seating isn’t mandatory, it’s just a means of recalling information spatially.   So yeah, attendance to my recollection: X17, Misfit, Erik, Remad, Tele, TJ, Kristin, Sam, Trost, Rock (down from Richmond), and myself.   And Sunpuke?  Where was he?  No clue, but the consensus is that he was probably bashing his brains out at a metal show.  So an agenda?  Hah yea, it’s free-form, so nothing specific.  However, HOPE is just around the corner, and I know some of the guys (Misfit, Erik, and Tele) are responsible for part of the network/video-streaming portion of the upcoming HOPE.  So my forecast is that the system will be stellar, once again, and also be constructed on site; and partially on the auto ride up, and in the midst of non-nonsensical ramblings resulting from zero sleep.  

Oh, and while it hits me, there was no mega-sexxyness this meetup.  No donuts were distributed for free, so apparently no one had their sexxy-hat on for the free donuts; which apparently is nifty if you like fried bread. So the information-to-bs-ratio in this post is starting to approach 0, i.e. not much information being expelled, but quite a bit of filler.  Sweetness!  The word count for this post is ummm Tesla with respect to word count: divisible by three (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla).

:wq

-Matt (enferex)

Wow, one of the largest meets we’ve had. Due to much re-ordering of our seats, trying to recall the attendees in a fixed order is somewhat moot; either way here goes: Maria (Carnegie Mellon student), Posiedon, Wallybert, BSD Bandit, Tom Araya, Jody, Remad, IncideAgent, Telemnstr, TJ, Eric…. wait… did I just type IncideAgent!? Yeah! It’s been like probably 5 years, or just about, since he last graced our presence. And he wasn’t distracted by WoW either! Oh yeah, and I did lie, the lead singer from Slayer didn’t attend, but still, kinda fun to entertain the thought. I probably missed a few others, if so, my apologies.

So no specific topic of discussion, just geeking-out, at the mall post-high-school-years. Well, post-high-school for most of us. And the word count, I’m assuming WordPress just space-delimits text and tokenizes it as a “word,” is prime. Assuming WordPress has some kind of lexing functionality. Of mention was a foot-pedal powered netbook, and the word of the month “Monkey Sh**” Yeah, so I intentionally censored the latter sentence, *see mention of high-school above.

-Matt (enferex)

The 7th huh? Well, that is the last possible day of the month for a potential 2600 meeting. And yes, one was had. Like quantum mechanics, it takes an observer to crash the wave out of superposition and into a single point of defined state. Like Schrödinger and a cat, we cracked the lid and got our result. In attendance was Trost, whom was one of the original founders of this meeting, long returned from his journeys; also embarking upon this quest was TJ with his case of briefs, telemnstr, Remad, wallybert, Jody, and myself.

As always, Tele, with his brain full of projects, enlightens us with his concepts. Trying to quantify the data exchanged during such a meeting, that of the free form style, can be rather difficult. The word count for this post is memory aligned for an x86_64 architecture, of course the word count is a completely incorrect way of detecting byte size, but for numerical purposes.

-Matt (enferex)

First Friday of the month and we had a meeting. That, I’m sure sounds really intriguing. So, yay to ye 2600ers, who kept the meeting going. Yep, the monthly meeting went down, and as in the past, had a rather nice turn out. But, one must note that turnout does not equate to quality of conversation, it can increase the probability that more variety in discussion will arise. But, I’m just blabbering, the meeting was very nice, kind of like show and tell, but with more tell. In attendance this episode was Jody, Sunpuke, Tele, Eric, TJ, Rick, and myself. It had been a while since Rick last showed-up, back in the Lynnhaven days, but he decided to drop in while in town. We had some interesting talks, from metal to speed-pass, to…. whatever. The number of words counted by Word Press, in this post, is a prime value. I think words are just space-delimited values.

-Matt (enferex)

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)