[13:44] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys and everything else
[16:40] <HowdyDoody> morning bears and who ever else is awake
[16:43] <ChinnoDog> bark
[17:37] <waltman> I'd think that bears would still be hibernating.
[17:37] <MutantTurkey> home sweet home
[17:37] <pleia2> there are a lot of animals in here
[17:37] <waltman> roost sweet roost?
[17:43] <pleia2> there, not an animal
[17:43] <pleia2> a robot!
[17:49] <MutantTurkey> so went on my first conference this weekend!
[17:52] <waltman> a robot NUMBER
[17:53] <waltman> MutantTurkey: cool! which conference?
[17:54] <MutantTurkey> DoE yearly contractors meeting
[17:54] <MutantTurkey> just a bunch of different projects
[17:55] <MutantTurkey> the cool one is KBase, it's an attempt to combine all this data and resources into one giant service
[17:55] <MutantTurkey> they have something like 2Pb of data, the whole thing is managed via the same software as amazon's cloud services
[17:55] <MutantTurkey> overall pretty cool
[17:55] <MutantTurkey> so the tech stuff was cool
[17:55] <MutantTurkey> the bio stuff mostly flew over my head
[19:00] <waltman> E == Energy?
[19:00] <waltman> or Education?
[19:05] <MutantTurkey> Energy
[19:07] <waltman> Why does Energy care about your bioinformatics stuff?
[19:10] <MutantTurkey> It's part of the larger microbial community I think
[19:10] <MutantTurkey> DoE just gets a large group of people together yearly who the give money too and talk about whats happened
[19:10] <MutantTurkey> so it's a lot of stuff about things I don't really understand!
[19:27] <waltman> MutantTurkey: welcome to academia!
[19:28] <MutantTurkey> heh
[19:28] <MutantTurkey> thank you
[20:29] <Sadin> JUst ordered a raspberry pi from MCM electronics with a case :) time to tinker away!!!!
[20:29] <Sadin> itll be here in 2 days
[20:30] <TheLordOfTime> cool?
[20:32] <Sadin> TheLordOfTime ive been trying to get my hands on one forever!