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Jason Ho is back in town from Taipei, will be moving to Silicon Valley in a few months.
Puyan Lotfi is back from Microsoft/Seattle, doing a Master’s Degree in CS at GT.
The Reverend Emily Case is hanging out and writing a sermon.
Sonali had eye surgery and Tejus will soon. Their company is having trouble.

Puyan also brought along fellow Master’s students, who are hacking on a Knowledge-Base AI detective problem.
And the usual suspects, Mark and Rob are hanging out and maybe writing some interactive fiction.

Rob
– hacking interactive fiction with Inform
– going to make a game where you fall asleep to go back in time

Mark
– writing some Processing code for school
– went to the Freeside meeting and got my keycard

Alex’s going-away-hack.

Rob
– doing CSS with Kelly
– going to karaoke
Kelly
– searching for jobs
– updating her online resume
– using Firebug!
Erik
– didn’t install Ruby 1.9.1
– playing WoW
Sonali
– fixing production issues for work
– survived layoffs
Tejus
– working on CSS refactoring
– survived layoffs
Emily
– learning HAML
– finding her way around a Sinatra session
Molly
– reading her RSS on Emily’s computer
– finished knitting her tank top
Alex
– working on passive-voice-detector with NLTK
– has it mostly working
Mark
– trying out new Mac software
– working on a processing sketch for Corkbird

We discussed exercise, CouchDB & MongoDB & Lucene, that bridge at Marietta St and Jones Ave, shooting lasers from your hips, Encyclopedia Brown fan-fic.

Alex Rae:
– doing some software engineering management planning things
Bill:
– wrote some lyrics
– wrote a thing which is almost an essay and posted on the internet
Erik:
– fixed his RSpec’s
– prepared for a conference call on Monday that didn’t happen
John:
– started a new project “meal-o-rific”
– meal-planning-grocery-shopping-recipe-tracking app
– almost got it talking with google calendar
Alex Rudnick:
– reviewing more CIKM papers
Lindsey:
– learning about monads from a category theory perspective
– is the co-author on a paper, so now she has to help edit it
Rob:
– playing with OSC, frustration
– drew a diagram on how to play a film on several screens at once
Mark:
– reading about pattern formation
– switching to Firefox from Safari so that he can use Zotero

This hack was on Tuesday 7 July 2009, right when you might imagine it would have been! Pardon for the delay in posting the notes.

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Rob:
– write a Technique article about Michael Jackson
– reading about the Dreamcast, for unknown reasons
– OK, really reading about games that feature MJ
– headed off to sing karaoke

Bill:
– tried to write some lyrics
– came up with some about being creative, and also Neil Armstrong and how reclusive he is.
– installed Chrome for Linux

Emily:
– read rss
– looked at stackoverflow

John:
– wrote tests for his webgame
– also read stackoverflow

Tripp:
– showed up!
– chatted with Alex
– discussing REST (etc) with John

Mark:
– made a sketch with Processing
– added notifications to Corkbird so he knows when somebody signs up

Alex:
– looking at a paper for CIKM
– excited about reviewing papers (woo!)
– talking about GWT with Tripp

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Rob:
– making art.
– made a four-color picture of Ric Flair, Warhol style!!
– We’ll put a link soon.

Mark:
– sent in a logo to the Freeside people
– tried to figure out Google Calendar API to integrate with an IRC bot

Lindsey and Alex:
– this week: competed in ICFP Contest 2009!!
– will blog about it soon
– maybe found a house
– tonight: Alex chilled out and read blogs, thought about typos

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Bill:
– Chatted with Alex about netbooks, work, GIS systems, programming languages
– played some nethack

Emily:
– Tried to figure out why mongodb hates twitter (maybe having issues with the Twitpocalypse)
– Read some RSSs

Alex:
– worked on detecting some typos, found a pretty serious bug in the typo detect-o-matic
– so close to being done with this part of the detect-o-matic
– drank a lot of coffee

Lindsey (remote):
– yesterday, gave a talk at Beer ‘n’ Algorithms about Turing Machines with oracles and relativization. Notes here!

Alternating fits of intense concentration and socializing hack!

Rob:
– made a chiptune (“a chip-ette tune”)
– looked at stuff for school

Alex:
– detecting some typos: finishing up the feature generator, appreciating the parser setup
– 2009 Alex is a much better software engineer than 2006-2007 Alex
– chatted with Zach G and Lindsey

Lindsey:
– furious paper-writing session with Dave B; sudden inspiration struck
– triangular substitutions are awesome for implementing logical programming for Scheme

Sonali:
– working on javascript stuff for dayjob

Tejus:
– setting up development tools on the Ubuntu Netbook Remix install on his netbook
– chatting with Alex about Linux, Ubuntu, and netbooks

Mark:
– working on CorkBird!
– adding comments and ajax paging

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Met Lauren and Kyle (new members who don’t know it yet):
– getting into twitter, trying to get lots of twitter followers (they’re @LAliciaKeyz and @KYeasley).
– Cewebrity status imminent.

Rob
– Started setting up a wordpress blog
– LOAD THE SPACESHIP WITH THE ROCKET FUEL. Chopping up wrestling promo videos with Ableton.
– finding cs1315 really easy, thinking about Technology of Representation and open standards in history

Mark
– Building a processing sketch to make randomized maps of suburban neighborhoods. With the Voronoi algorithm.
– had dinner with his brother Paul

Alex
– setting up the adorable new laptop (Dell Mini 12 with Ubuntu 9.04), made a script to turn off touchpad so he doesn’t accidentally click on things while typing
– set up wiki pages to study for quals
– worked a little bit on typo detection

Lindsey
– finishing reading The Reasoned Schemer, which is proving to be illuminating about logic programming with Scheme
– starting in on Modern Operating Systems tonight!