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

[Robert G. Brown]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:57:23 -0500, Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:

>>>> 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.
Rizzuto was a Yankeee shortstop who became an announcer, and used the 
expression "Holy Cow!" so much that other folks picked it up.

>>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.
I also happen to think that awakedness at odd hours and configuring many
different linux systems to do a variety of good things can lead to this
state of mind. Peter being blessed with recent offspring, and his good 
works at CARES have lead to both of the above. Hopefully winng at GJ is
not the only benefit he will reap from all that effort.

>>>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.
I dunno, I was pretty damn slow on some things...like -c and "::", which
have gotten prominant play here in one Bruces messages. Careful study of
that message hints at his belief we're making excuses. Nah, merely some
postgame analysis.

>>In the meantime, others were pressing buttons and getting points. Being
>>right and late doesn't count.
>Nope.
Jeopardy resembles life in this way, among others.

>>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!
Jeez, people,  what's a shift key?? The compiler castches it, anyway! :)

>>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.
Producers ought to know this, they may want to have the KLUG events posted
on their walls... "Yes, Bruce! Look, 'Fifth Element Reloaded' has to roll
out in early October, so those geeks in Michigan can include it!"

>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).
We need to identify this person. If you're reading this, please come forward!

>Sandra Bullock is just gorgeous.
Among other fine qualities, one of which is a good disposition regarding
geekdom in general.

>And we've had an answer that was "What is the Coleco Adam" every year too.
The notion of a question like "What was the Coleco, Adam?" as a variation
would be amusing. If I get it maybe I can redeem myself for ;; instead of ::.

>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.
There are other machines that had tape drives instead of disks, and a 
couple of them were at a recent (like this year) historical (sometimes
hysterical) collection of old computers (and, I understand, old computing
people) in the SF bay area.

>Only bad thing was you had the send the tapes to Coleco for formatting.
I was never blessed with a Coleco, but I dimly recall this, since some
acquaintences had these. Apparently turnaround took weeks.

>>>>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!
More participation is very often better!

>>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.
I was splitting hairs on that one... NASAs site said "fly" when they
meant "launch". Your question (Who was Norm Thaggard?) is RIGHT if we
change the word "fly" to "launch". However, Thomas Stafford was logged
aboard (and therefore flew in) the Soyuz during the one ASTP flight in
1975.
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