[03:59] <azend|vps> wha
[03:59] <azend|vps> conference at Conestoga College?
[03:59] <azend|vps> :D
[04:14] <6A4ABPLMC> Hey everyone! Linux Conference at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario on 30 January 2016 from 9:00am to 4:00pm: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?eid=ZGdndjVyYnA1aXNraWNsajlxMjRocW9zc28gbmxrYzM5anQ0cDBuYmM0cGs5cGo3cDVmaDBAZw&ctz=America/New_York
[04:20] <azend|vps> [22:59:06] <azend|vps> wha
[04:20] <azend|vps> [22:59:19] <azend|vps> conference at Conestoga College?
[04:20] <azend|vps> [22:59:20] <azend|vps> :D
[04:20] <azend|vps> 6A4ABPLMC:
[04:21] <azend|vps> with a name like 6A4ABPLMC, I think Bob has turned into a robot
[04:21]  * BobJonkman1 wonders what happened to the nick database
[04:21] <BobJonkman1> Yeh, it's something Colin Mills has been wanting to do for a long time
[04:21] <azend|vps> Seems like a good guy to meet
[04:22] <BobJonkman1> He approached KWLUG in the summer, and we thought we might have it concurrent with Software Freedom Day (September), but something fell through at his end
[04:22] <azend|vps> I personally know all of the lecturers at his conference other than Colin :P
[04:22] <BobJonkman1> I've never met Colin either
[04:22] <azend|vps> Have you met Randy or Ed?
[04:23] <BobJonkman1> Nope!
[04:23] <BobJonkman1> Or maybe I have, and I've forgotten their names.
[04:23] <azend|vps> They're both good guys!
[04:23] <BobJonkman1> I'm getting really bad like that
[04:24] <azend|vps> Last time I talked to Randy, he was developing graphing modules for Drupal
[04:24] <BobJonkman1> So, you up for doing a talk on Arduino Shields For The Uncommonly Large Hacker?
[04:25] <azend|vps> and Ed is one of my teachers
[04:25] <azend|vps> heh
[04:25] <BobJonkman1> Cool! Hope I live up to their standards...
[04:25] <azend|vps> I'd like to but I'm pretty overworked right now
[04:25] <BobJonkman1> But you'll be there for the conference, right?
[04:26] <azend|vps> It would be pretty funny to show up on the day and present next to my teacher though :P
[04:26] <azend|vps> BobJonkman1: well I did just find out about it but I think so
[04:26] <BobJonkman1> Can't hurt!
[04:26] <azend|vps> I won't be there in the morning though :(
[04:26] <BobJonkman1> Too bad.
[04:26] <azend|vps> I've developed some health issues that mean I can't do mornings :/
[04:27] <BobJonkman1> Yeh, I was e-mailing with Colin, he didn't want to post anything until everything was finalized
[04:27] <BobJonkman1> Oh, sorry to hear (health issues).
[04:27] <BobJonkman1> How's the housing situation?
[04:27] <azend|vps> bad
[04:27] <BobJonkman1> Sorry to hear that too...
[04:27] <azend|vps> My family doesn't have the best luck recently
[04:27] <azend|vps> It's kind of astronomical how many things have gone wrong
[04:27] <azend|vps> but I'm still trying to be chipper
[04:28] <BobJonkman1> Good.
[04:28] <azend|vps> How've you been?
[04:28] <BobJonkman1> Not too bad.
[04:28] <BobJonkman1> Contract finished at the end of June
[04:29] <BobJonkman1> Tried a career change -- ran for the Green Party here in Kitchener-Conestoga.  Fun, but draining. And I lost :((
[04:29] <azend|vps> :(
[04:29] <BobJonkman1> Looking for another long-term contract, but haven't looked that hard.
[04:30] <BobJonkman1> Election loss wasn't unexpected -- Harold Albrecht has a stranglehold on this area. And deep down he's a decent guy, even if he does run for the wrong party.
[04:30] <azend|vps> Sounds pretty rough
[04:30] <azend|vps> Politics are pretty hard for everyone involved
[04:30] <BobJonkman1> Nah. it was a great learning experience.
[04:31] <azend|vps> My grandmother is in politics and it's hard to get her to talk about anything else
[04:31] <BobJonkman1> I'll probably run again, finances permitting.  Provincial election in 2018, and if that's not successful, the next Federal election in 2019
[04:31] <BobJonkman1> I know, politician's disease, eh?
[04:33] <azend|vps> Well having it be 20ish years of your life doesn't help either
[04:37] <azend|vps> BobJonkman1: you still doing the irc thing?
[04:37] <BobJonkman1> I keep forgetting to turn on Pidgin, but otherwise, yes
[04:38] <BobJonkman1> Oh, you mean the regular Ubuntu-ca meetings on IRC? No...
[04:38] <azend|vps> no
[04:38] <azend|vps> lul
[04:38] <azend|vps> I just meant IRC in general
[04:39] <BobJonkman1> The last few meetings were mostly just me talking to myself.  So when the LoCo had to be renewed (again!) we sort of took a back seat.
[04:39] <BobJonkman1> Yeh, if I remember to turn on my client then it'll be on an idling even when I'm AFK
[04:40] <BobJonkman1> I've got a dedicated comm server for XMPP, and I should really learn to use IRSSI
[04:41] <BobJonkman1> That way I can just keep IRSSI running and either shell into the server or use the IRSSI relay function to connect Pidgin to it
[04:43] <azend|vps> yeah
[04:43] <azend|vps> having irssi + ssh/mosh + mobile ssh client is pretty sweet
[04:43] <azend|vps> like on your android phone or whatever
[04:44] <azend|vps> I use quassel though so I've already go that covered
[04:48] <BobJonkman1> Don't know quassel. I use YAIC on my phone, but it doesn't auto-start. So I never remember to turn it on.
[04:49] <azend|vps> it's a pretty cool one
[04:49] <azend|vps> BobJonkman1: pm?
[04:49] <BobJonkman2> O hai!
[04:49] <azend|vps> hai!