Meeting Notes 2012-05-01

Setup

Rafe renames the Moore Business Office the "Department of Money and Verisimilitude."
Levine 307 is already occupied by grading-people.
- TAs: Don't mind us, we're just sitting in the corner.
- Andrew: Using vim.
Rafe: Vermin Supreme is running for president.
Rafe drops food.
- Rafe: You didn't see that.
Which package manager is best?
- ELPA is for hardcore Lisp hackers.
- Mish: The Ruby kids post to Marmalade.
- John: So ELPA.
Mish: Did you get the dongle working?
- Rafe: I don't have a dongle. I am dongleless.
Andrew recites the ABCs of Unix.
- Mish: You should tweet that.
- Andrew: It's way more than 140 characters.
- Mish: No, the link.
- Andrew: It came up as a fortune.
John: Does anyone want to develop Mimecraft with me?
- John mimes exploring.

Adam Aviv arrives, bearing donuts and [embargoed until after publication of Adam's paper - ed.], to hijack our meeting. He wants test subjects for his research.
- Andrew: What are we doing?
- Specifically, what do we have to do to get donuts?
- Adam: You'll be [embargoed] a large number of times.
Adam tells John his user number. John now needs to keep track of it.
- John: I'll open up an org file.
- Adam: No, just remember it.
You have to use your dominant hand for the experiment. It doesn't matter what hand you use for the donut-eating.
Meanwhile, we also zoom in on fractals. The video goes on for 10 minutes.
- Rafe: Error, maximum recursion depth exceeded.
Adam needs more volunteers.
- Adam: Wasserman! You're next.
- Zach: Ok.
- John: Zach, you're never going to beat my high score!
Rafe proposes Fractal Night in Wu and Chen. It's like DMD Movie Night, but with fractals.
A familiar [embargoed] is a friendly sight.
- Zach: That was my social security number. What's going on here?
There is much complaining about the [embargoed] keyboard.
Adam gets a phone call.
- Adam: I'd love to join you for dinner! I'm collecting data right now though.
- Everyone: It's a date!
Zach: Am I done?
- Adam: Come with me.
- Mish: Come with me if you want to live.
Mish keeps missing the sevens.
- John: PhD defense: Sevens are tough.

Everyone M-100's Rafe's silly asdfasdfdsa macro. Emacs crashes.
- John: Moral of the story, you guys are idiots.
Rafe picked up the Grand Unified Theory of keyboard macros from a book.
Rafe: C-x C-k C-n and C-x C-k C-p take you forward and backward in the macro kill ring, respect.
- The two shortcuts are given forward respect and backward respect, respectively.
Rafe's macro is straight outta Compton.

We watch the clock.
- Mish: They're moving pretty slow. Broadway musicals do this faster.

Author: Matthew Croop

Date: 2012-11-14 17:49:53 EST

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