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Its late and Graham owes me a punch in the stomach, but I hope this is a case of better late than never!  From 8-17-2006

This Past Week:

Graham:

• Try to use more sample in chuck environment in preparation for a Laptop Battle.
• Started some work towards a collaborative chuck site.

Alex:

• Borrowed a twiddler and had some fun. — Hopefully the arm is much better now?

Luke:

• Some PVR work with mythtv.

That Night…

Alex and Graham:

• A refocus on research.
• Determine some mechanisms to test whether the application is choosing good sequences.

Luke:

• Some webserver configuration to make services accessible from the office. Specifically I installed and started using Anyterm.

14 December 2006 – dj night again!

new member profile:
Jason Ho –
qaboom.com – Question and answer community for colleges
– ie "how to change folder colors in unix terminal, top five roadtrip movies, risks of eating preservatives, lucky buddha on 10th street hit or miss"
Ti calculator community- Alien Invation – Legend of Zelda clone
went to Small Business Administration today for startup advice
They suggest you start with a partnership agreement.

He added admin area to his site this week.
Tonight he’s doing formatting for the tag browsing

Jason learned from working out-
he finds that you plateau for muscle groups- switching activities helps you mitigate this.

Mark-
learned Hirigana- lifted rubberized weights at SAC.
Implemented decision trees.
Will do a flickr photo presentation, and a shapes livecoding at New Year’s Eve.
Playing with idea of physical sorters, decision trees.

Erik-
will build a webapp for ilovesittingonchairs.com
rapid rails prototyping – friend Nick will be doing design
upload pictures of people sitting on chairs
(Seth Godin– internet marketing god according to Erik)

Graham-
Worked on different variation techniques in chuck.
Registered elbowpatch.es for new music project.
Tony liked my CD!

Thursday 7 Dec 2006 – alone with the soul

There were djs here playing soul music and the lights were down low.
Graham was here alone tonight, he worked on a new chapter of his cheesy chuck tutorial.
The new chapter examines variation techniques for livecoding.

30 Nov 2006 – more livecoding evangelism

roster- Mark, Alex, his student Zach, Jason Ho, Puyan, cognitive scientist person
also met Chap (programmerer of PCI cards for small broadcast company) and Ed (web programmerer) and gave Tony a demo

Jason is working on a cool question/answer collaboration site. And wants to do a music collaboration site with inline editing.
Puyan is working on cross-domain authentication in J2EE.
Zach will work on computational algebra systems.