[09:37] <JonathanD> Morning.
[10:06] <rmg51> Morning JonathanD
[10:07] <JonathanD> hi
[10:07] <rmg51> hey
[11:39] <waltman> Morning
[11:40] <JonathanD> hi waltman
[11:40] <JonathanD> waltman: no mac programmers group today?
[11:44] <waltman> I've got a lame excuse. I'm in Austin.
[11:44] <waltman> I'm out of the country in Texas.
[11:45] <waltman> But good luck today!
[11:47] <JonathanD> lame ecxcuse.
[11:47] <JonathanD> come anyway.
[11:48] <JonathanD> I hate lag.
[12:12] <waltman> If I can get online at 10:30, I'll try to heckle you :)
[12:12]  * waltman checks the schedule...
[12:12] <waltman> There's a keynote from 9-10 cdt.
[12:14] <JonathanD> waltman: you're assuming I can get on irc.
[12:14] <waltman> I was going to try to hit one of the pages John linked to yesterday.
[12:14] <JonathanD> waltman: I suppose you could modify the pres on etherpad
[12:15] <JonathanD> waltman: well, the "notes" page is readonly :)
[12:15] <waltman> boo
[12:15] <JonathanD> one of the features of etherpad you would have learned about, if you came to one of my talks
[12:15] <waltman> Well, I'll be surrounded by the Republic of Texas's finest Linux minds. We'll have to hack our way in!
[12:16] <waltman> High of 96 in Austin today
[12:17] <waltman> I'm off to find some breakfast. Later.
[13:52] <rmg51> stupid kernel updates
[13:52]  * waltman waves from Texas Linux Fest
[13:53] <rmg51> that's two days in a row
[13:53]  * rmg51 waves from his desk
[13:56]  * rmg51 waves again as he leaves to go to the bank
[14:44] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples
[14:45]  * teddy-dbear grumbles about two kernel updates in two days
[14:45] <teddy-dbear> only two more laptops to go
[14:45] <teddy-dbear> see ya
[14:45] <waltman> Bootup time is perfect chocolate munching time.
[14:48] <rmg51> waltman: any time is chocolate munching time
[16:51] <JonathanD> waltman: you were apparently the MPSIGs first ever remote participant.
[16:51] <waltman> woot!
[16:51] <JonathanD> I think John wants to use etherpad for future talk notes.
[16:52] <JonathanD> so everyone can contrib.
[16:52] <waltman> nice
[16:53] <waltman> The talk I'm sitting in now is by a guy who put a wifi router on a weather balloon and put it up to the edge of space while keeping a connection.
[16:54] <waltman> They usually go their launches in August because that's when the jet stream over South Texas is the best. But this time it didn't cooperate. "It took off like a howlin' cat!"
[16:54] <waltman> s/go their launches/do their launches/
[16:54] <JonathanD> cool
[16:54] <JonathanD> directed wifi?
[16:55] <waltman> they pointed the antenna down, so they had some issues with it taking off
[16:55] <waltman> tighter beam for best gain
[16:56] <JonathanD> nice.
[16:56] <JonathanD> I did 3 miles once, but thats it.
[16:56] <waltman> but they were also broadcasting a video signal over fm, and that was wide enough that he could use that to direct his wifi antenna.
[16:56] <waltman> http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org/content/howto-first-wifi-edge-space
[16:58] <JonathanD> meh, just run a really long ethernet cable.
[16:58] <waltman> that might cause weight issues.
[16:58] <JonathanD> string of smaller balloons to hold the cable.
[16:59] <JonathanD> you launch new ones as you spin it out.
[16:59] <waltman> I should point out that this gentleman pronounces wifi as "wah fah" :)
[17:02] <waltman> "There are 3 seasons in South Texas: Summer, July and August"
[17:02] <JonathanD> I should have given you flyers :P
[17:03] <waltman> you should have!
[17:03] <waltman> there are a LOT of tables here
[17:04] <waltman> maybe 20-30 strewn all over the floor
[17:04] <JonathanD> Invite them all :P
[17:04] <waltman> maybe 15-20
[17:04] <JonathanD> bring me back some biz cards.
[17:04] <waltman> for what?
[17:05] <JonathanD> so I can hound people for sponsorships of course :)
[17:05] <waltman> ah
[17:05] <waltman> the only ground I haven't found here is Ubuntu!
[17:05] <waltman> group
[17:05] <JonathanD> right now I'm trying to figure out how to get tastycakes to england.
[18:52] <waltman> pleia2: Do you know Philip Ballew?
[18:52] <waltman> He's talking about ubuntu at txlf right now.
[19:02] <pleia2> yeah (just had lunch with him s few days ago actually)
[19:02] <pleia2> he is very enthusiastic :)
[19:02] <waltman> I'm sitting 10 feet in front of him right now :)
[19:03] <waltman> He's a big fan of orange and purple.
[19:03] <pleia2> :)
[19:03] <pleia2> hehe
[19:04] <waltman> I only say that because he just described them as the world's two greatest colors.
[19:08] <waltman> "The last thing Ubuntu wants to do is alienate its user." <the entire room laughs<
[19:59] <waltman> JonathanD: http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org/sponsors
[20:56] <JonathanD> Thanksies.
[21:14] <waltman> JonathanD: I gathered some swag for you, too
[21:15] <JonathanD> Cool :)
[21:15] <JonathanD> Good event?
[21:16] <JonathanD> waltman: mpsig needs a speaker for august.
[21:16] <JonathanD> would you like to volunteer.
[21:16] <waltman> It was great until this afternoon.
[21:17] <JonathanD> Something happen?
[21:17] <waltman> Second session after lunch and I was getting drowsy. I went out to the hallway to get some more coffee, and discovered that all the urns had been replaced by bartenders.
[21:18] <waltman> In theory there's a Starbucks 2 blocks away, but in practice it's 4 blocks away and is closed for summer break.
[21:19] <JonathanD> oops
[21:19] <waltman> But I think the walk revived me better than the coffee anyway. :)
[21:19] <JonathanD> we'll have to get you a coffee flask, for when you're trapped in a bar and no coffee is ot be found.
[21:22] <waltman> I didn't get enough sleep last night, and I had a big lunch, and the speaker had a really soothing voice
[21:25] <JonathanD> mmm
[21:25] <JonathanD> John said he would do his invisibility talk at fosscon.
[21:25] <JonathanD> It'd kinda be offtopic, but it also sounds very interesting.
[21:25] <waltman> I'd go!
[21:25] <JonathanD> Someone from nasa asked him to do it.
[21:25] <JonathanD> for them.
[21:25] <waltman> open source invisibility cloak!
[21:25] <JonathanD> (or something along those lines)
[21:26] <waltman> there was someone from nasa at the meeting today?
[21:26] <JonathanD> the talk would really be on the math/science of it, with pointers on where to go do it
[21:26] <JonathanD> no... wherever it was he gave his talk
[21:26] <waltman> Oh, Balticon
[21:26] <waltman> NASA people go to that.
[21:26] <JonathanD> balitcon
[21:27] <JonathanD> yeah
[21:27] <JonathanD> I think I'd go to it too.
[21:28] <JonathanD> one of the guys (I don't know everyones name) was talking about using etherpad in a classroom or such.
[21:28] <JonathanD> I honestly think this is a great idea.
[21:28] <JonathanD> collaborative notetaking?
[21:28] <waltman> Deivy?
[21:28] <JonathanD> Russianish accent?
[21:28] <JonathanD> or east europeish, anyway.
[21:29] <waltman> The crazy Brazilian guy who wants to do scientific programming in Applescript?
[21:29] <JonathanD> I don't recall if it's the same guy.
[21:29] <JonathanD> But really scientific programming should be done in qbasic.
[21:29] <JonathanD> I'm not sure why anyone would do anything else.
[21:29] <waltman> There's another guy with an accent. Older guy.
[21:29] <JonathanD> This was the older guy, then. I think :)