[KLUG Members] KLUG Meeting Notes for 10/28/2003

[Adam Williams]

>>> Or in utter disbelief at the speed of Mr. Buxton's button finger.  Holy
>>> Cow!
>OMYGOAWD, a Phil Rizzuto impression!

Impressive that I can do an impression of Phil Rizzuto when I have no idea 
who that is.

>>"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
>>It is by the beans of Javaa that thoughts acquire speed,
>>The hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
>>It is by will alone I set my mind in motion." <slurp!>
>> -- Frank Herbert, _Baristas of Dune_.

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a quote from Dune on this list before 
(or a parody of Dune anyway).

>English translation: Peter was guzzling coffee, which, coupled with the
>bite of an obscure penguin, gaving him immense powers and reflexes.

He was knockin' 'em down pretty good.

>>Yeah, it does kinda lead you to a few mistakes: but what was everyone
>>ELSE's excuse?! ;-)
>Hey, over at Table A We didn't *NEED* any Steekin' excuses!
>We had explanations. They were bad enough, as things turned out.
>>> Peter rocks!!!
>>Hey, Bill knew so much SQL, and Jon knew Niobe and Sandra Bullock (not
>>Julia Roberts). Those helped a lot.
>Well, I know a lot of SQL, but I was slow on the trigger, and Dirk knew
>many of those answers. I recall this, we conferred, and consolidated 
>our great knowledge.

A vulcan mind meld might have been a good idea.  I think they have fast 
reflexes too.

>In the meantime, others were pressing buttons and getting points. Being
>right and late doesn't count.

Nope.

>Niobe? I never heard of that.. but Hollett was on his buzzer before me for
>stuff like "delete". There's no excuse for that. I'm going to have more
>coffee next time....maybe take Bill out for a few drinks, first...no thanks,
>I'll pass....
>And C++.. the last time I saw a ;; was when Bush was President... the FIRST

Geesh, it's "::" not ";;".  And you call yourself a programmer!

>one....and Andrew Thompson was faster them I on the buzzer there...
>I remeber KNOWING that the question was "Who is Sandra Bullock?" At that
>moment I was shocked that anyone had asked a Geek Cinema question that did
>not involve one of the Matrix or LOTR films. I was so happy I knew the right
>question that pus --- well, Jon said it.

Basically we haven't had alot of Geek movies in the last couple years;  
Star Wars; LOTR; and Matrix have dominated the fare.  I try to make the 
movie questions relate to movies opened in the last year.  Rereleasing 
"Aliens" gave us the Weaver question.  And we've had a question about the 
"Fifth Element" every year since someone the first year said it was their 
all time favorite movie (don't remember who it was now, they might not 
even be around anymore).  Sandra Bullock is just gorgeous.

And we've had an answer that was "What is the Coleco Adam" every year too.  
I thought the "random access tape drives" would give that one away;  that 
was a very cool feature,  I know people who used them for just that 
reason - it was like a really slow disk drive.  Only bad thing was you had 
the send the tapes to Coleco for formatting.

>>>That darn button again. Or maybe onrushing senility. >
>>> If someone else wants to help make questions it is fine with me.  But
>>> then thats one less person who can participate.  If your interested in
>>> bieng the program directors lackey, just e-mail
>>> programdirector@kalamazoolinux.org :)  Always willing to glance at your
>>> resume.
>>That is a problem. But I also have some ideas about catagories and
>>scoring I'd like to suggest and help with next year.
>Agreed, opening it up, distributing it a bit would be interesting.

Excellent!

>And just wait 'til next year!

I actually decide on the categories, etc... in ~June.  Then have lots of 
time to work through them,  I try to verify all the answers from two 
sources,  which I guess didn't help matters for the NASA site.