Lindsey:
– 8 work days left before summer vacation
– - down to 6 things on The Todo List That Refused To Die
– found an apartment in Bloomington!
– *still* chipping away at SICP

Martin:
- working on apparent (http://apparentaa.appspot.com/)
- that’s about it

Ashok:
- working on study guide flash-card app
- on own server
- lots of reading to understand algorithms: general techniques to optimize people’s retention

Alex:
- looked "A Fast Algorithm for Learning a Ranking Function from Large-Scale Data Sets"
- it’s got a lot of math
- started working on online course: http://www.stats202.com
- little bit of Scheme with Lindsey
- dithering around on the internets

Mark:
- hiking the AT

Humza:
- lots of rock climbing, hands are tired
- thinking about getting into Python

Drew:
– trying to get on the network
– getting into AMQP
– - similar to JMS (which he uses at work)
Lindsey:
– 13 work days left before summer vacation
– - down to 8 things on The Todo List That Refused To Die
– looking for an apartment in Bloomington!
– still chipping away at SICP
– - trying to finish chapter 1 exercises by the end of the month
Martin:
– working on Tyrus’s “flipping coasts” app
– - for keeping in touch with people after he moves
Erik:
– wrote code for adding negative captchas to rails apps
– not as excited by phusion passenger as tejus is
Rob:
– configuring his (thinkpad-mac) to do japanese (kotoeri) input
– ã?Œã‚“ã?°ã?£ã?¦ï¼?
Alex:
– reading Graham’s DAFX paper
– can’t do classloading (which jython needs) in an applet
– - wrote a blog post about it
– - to which Frank W. (big Jython guy at Sun)
– wrote some schema
– thinking metrics for how good a regression fit is
Ashok:
– says that Knuth doesn’t believe in unit-tests
Mike:
– researching how to get high-speed internet to his rural small-town
– - so that his younger brother can be part of internetdom
Mark:
– reading Graham’s DAFX paper
– chattering

Zach
– working on a reading aid for ADD folks
– displays a file and highlights groups of words at a time
– - to prevent distraction
– - it’s written in swing
– - based on ideas from a speed-reading app
Tejus
– worked on server config for choices-quilts
– installed ruby on centos 4
Sonali
– working on the new rails version of choices-quilts
– having trouble with the “will_paginate” plugin
Lindsey
 - went to my college reunion in Iowa
– - saw family, saw friends, saw Alex, video blogged about it
 - learned about the law of “conservation of ream” from my Harvey Mudd
alum housemate
 - won NaRoRuMo 2008
 - finally making headway on SICP again; end of chapter 1 in sight
Rob
– being quiet
Martin
– working on apparent (the apartment finder)
– going to keep the birthdate of the craigslist posts
– - rather than repull listings from the database at each step
Mark
– researching datetime formatting and parsing
– - found a bunch of libraries in python/perl/javascript
– is going to write some code for parsing English text
– - representing repeated date events (like, every Tuesday from 8 to midnight)
Erik
– maintaining code, yay?
Alex
– working on the jython-in-an-applet-talking-to-javascript project
– - can call from js to applet, and back
– - but keeps getting security exceptions

Other people at Octane: Humza, Ashok, Ashok’s brother (Alok), Samir, Alice, Mike, Dan
Alok is taking the JES class with Monica Sweat
Discovered that Ashok (and Alok) are not Indian, but Nepali

Scott Driscoll (previously)
– writing Matlab code for a freelance project
– has been selling robotics kits to Make magazine
Lindsey
– work: daily insane perl refactoring sprees
– running: daily
– - on track to hit 100 miles for the month
– should perhaps consider occasionally doing things other than work and running
Alex
– stretch goal: put a python REPL into a browser using jython and an applet
– - talked with Lex Spoon about this
– talking with Zach about compilers and byte-code interpreters
– running daily
Rob
– wrote an outline of making the wiibow
– - with glovepie + puredata
– organizing his workflow paradigm desktop
Martin
– hacking on apparent
– - improving query performance by indexing apartments geohash (not the xkcd geohash)
Mark
– trying to make Processing allow Java 1.5 syntax
– - getting segfaults
– should have stuck to playing with geomerative
– biked to Stone Mountain yesterday
– made tiny animations in Flash and Photoshop

http://code.google.com/p/narorumo/wiki/ReallyBigFibonacciNumbers

– can’t stop thinking about integer sequences
Martin:
– started posting the “apparent” housing finder to appengine,
– made it all ajaxy
– started designing an icon (to rule the world)
Lauryn:
– catching up on work
– reading “do androids dream of electric sheep”
– got a bicycle and a haircut
Alex:
– sudoku solver
– gearsing, going to use svn revision number instead of md5
– hung out in portland with lindsey
– did math together, from sicp
Erik:
– got rid of appcelerator from skribit
– widget went from 300Kb to 6Kb
Mark:
– using geomerative to render fonts,
– found and fixed a geomerative/mac issue,
– is going to “materialize” fonts: make them melt like wax, inflate like ballons, etc

What we’ve been doing
Megan:
– translating blogs
– writing midterms
Anna Marie:
– midterms
Erik:
– tried five things, ended up reverting all of them
– - “i guess my head’s not very clear”
– added a calendar to aloe
– - for bills and invoices
Martin:
– recentering the apartment-finder map
Mark:
– released a new version of the Eclipse plugin at work
– writing pseudocode for an asynchronous language for building interfaces
Alex:
– sudoku solver in python
– - his python is better than two years ago
– gears-ing his app at work