HR Geeks

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)

Wow, probably one of the shortest 2600 meetings ever. That was not a bad thing per-se, as many of us had plans that occurred around the same time. What this does suggest is the dedication of people coming out. Even though some had plans, people still tucked away the meeting in their agenda. This month, the attendance was, in clock-wise order from where I sat: tele, cdated derez, x17root, Justin, Dave, remad, and myself.

Sunpuke did not make it out, as he was scoring some most-leet seats at the Jewish Mother, for a concert, to which a few of us attended. “Most-leet seats you say Bill?” … “That’s right Ted!” … “wiggly wiggly weeewwww!” (Bill and Ted reference), and their most non-bodacious dudical vernacular. Till next month?, keep it out of the middle endian.

-Matt (enferex).

Appears that the Pembroke location is the spot for the meets! Chill atmosphere. Plus, I think it is more central for people. I should also mention, while we did have one attendee last month (Shmoo month) he could not find the meeting. We will not preclude him from attendance, as he was there in effort. That situation was possibly because most attendees were at Shmoo. Aside from that, last meeting was the 6 year anniversary, so we did have attendance, in some state of searching.

In attendance (in seating order) this month was Remad, Charles, Dane, Andrew, Tele, Dave, Erik, Sunpuke, Justin, and myself. Lots of talk. Once the mall closed, which they don’t seem to mind us staying there after closing, we decided, on our own decision, to move things outside some more.

-Matt (enferex)

6 years old! This month adds another ring to the tree of HR 2600. I have yet to really get much feedback from this month’s meeting, as some of us did not attend due to being at Shmoocon. If anyone has feedback pertaining to the meeting (if it even was held) please post a comment.

-Matt (enferex)

Like a fresh pair of underpants, the new meeting location is great!  It was quieter and seems more chill.  However, the 4 TV’s surrounding the food court can be quite distracting.  With that said, our attendance was great!  Sharing the experience this month was Jon (the lockpick/crypto Jon), Tele, Dave, Wallybert, Andrew, Cdated, Remad, Derez, Sunpuke, and myself.  So the memo must have gotten out, I have a feeling either the next mag, or a succeding edition will reflect the meeting change.  None-the-less for those with fidgeting problems, Jon solved such latent energy by dumping out his set of locksmi… err lockpicking utilities.

Also, the HRGeeks have a few Shmoocon tickets floating around, so inquire on the forum if you are in need.

-Matt (enferex)

Happy (almost New Year in USA).  With that said, even though the 2600 Magazine reflects the meeting at Lynnhaven Mall, it seems that the consensus is to shift the meeting to Pembroke.   A tad more central to people, while also supporting a probably more “quiet” environment.  So this next upcoming January meeting will be the first at Pembroke (just down the road from Lynnhaven): http://www.pembrokemall.com/info/directions.cfm

-Matt (enferex)

Last meeting of 2008, and it was a good one.  We stayed until the mall closed,and we also had some new attendees join, to generate a three table construction similar to that of an Euler Diagram.  In attendance was Wallybert, Steven, Andrew, Dave, Tele, Remad, Sunpuke, and myself.  Dave brought his lappy and Tele brought to our attention the whole world of cramming as much visual and audio information into limited blocks of memory.  The aforementioned is from the “demo” scene, where contests are conducted that require participants  to make the most insane collaboration of audio and visual information into very small (size constrained) packages.  We also talked about moving the meeting location to Pembroke Mall.  It seems that will happen by January, even though the latest edition of the magazine will probably still reflect Lynnahven.  Please chime-in with your thoughts regarding this meeting change,  I cannot say with 100% confidence that the change will occur, but the likelyhood seems strong.

-Matt (enferex)