Re: heretics meeting
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:15:20PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: anyone fancy going early to this - i'm pretty exhausted with work and wouldn't mind getting an early pint in I'll probably leave work in an hour or so. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Breeding memes since 1973 ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature
Re: heretics meeting
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --neYutvxvOLaeuPCA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:15:20PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: anyone fancy going early to this - i'm pretty exhausted with work and wouldn't mind getting an early pint in I'll probably leave work in an hour or so. Would it be Bad Voodoo to start drinking in Soho? ;-) Dave // Has to get a train home tonight :-/ -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -
Re: Heretics' meeting
Greg McCarroll wrote: i then partitioned for this change, but dave held valiantly against myself and the other usual suspects (JS,DC,) - i was also at some stage called `the heretic' philip newton even gimped something up about this http://newton.digitalspace.net/grep-heretic.jpg , for the curious. A modification of the picture I took of grep at yapc::Europe::19100. The original is at http://newton.digitalspace.net/064821/02a.jpg . Compare and contrast. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Heretics' meeting
Just to confirm there will be Heretic's fire side chat at the Anchor on the 8th of the month again, for those who were not at the last one we basically embrace and extend one of the side rooms of the anchor and gather around an open fire for some good beer and the usual old rubbish chat. There will be no meal this time, as that was a bit crap compared to the excellent open fire and beer. Although I appreciate that fire and heretic do seem a bit too connected here ;-) - Forwarded message from David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:25:14 + From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Heretics' meeting User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-public-key-is-at: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/public-key.txt yup, there will be a Heretic's ``fire side chat'' Good-oh! I've invited Eric van Buggenhaut, a Belgian LBWer who's in London that week. I've insisted that he needs some proper beer whilst over here, and none of that fancy foreign muck he gets at home. - End forwarded message - -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Heretics' meeting
Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting? Perhaps some links. I've never heard of the group. Thanks, _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Heretics' meeting
* at 28/02 15:09 - Hamlet D'Arcy said: Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting? Perhaps some links. I've never heard of the group. if only we had a faq :) struan
Re: Heretics' meeting
* at 23/02 06:57 -0500 Dave Cross said: At Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:40:19 +, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q. When are social meetings? A. On the day after the first wednesday of the month. Please stop confusing the newcomers. London.pm social meetings are _always_ on the first Thursday of the month. Some sad individuals have a problem with that and insist on using other arcane calculations for the meeting date. This only results in problems when the _official_ meetings are on the 1st of the month. On months like this (and March will be one such month) you may well see talk of a 'heretics meeting' on the 8th. Hope this is clearer now. Dave... * at 28/02 15:09 - Hamlet D'Arcy said: Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting? Perhaps some links. I've never heard of the group. to be more helpful see above[1]. struan [1]: wondering how to make mutt do things in the right order when replying to multiple posts.
Re: Heretics' meeting
At Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:12:59 +, Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * at 28/02 15:09 - Hamlet D'Arcy said: Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting? Perhaps some links. I've never heard of the group. if only we had a faq :) I know, I know. I'll work on it some time this week... or over the weekend... or something! Dave...
Re: Heretics' meeting
On or about Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:16:17PM +, Struan Donald typed: to be more helpful see above[1]. [1]: wondering how to make mutt do things in the right order when replying to multiple posts. Tag the posts you want, then reverse the sort order (shift-o whatsit). Roger
Re: Heretics' meeting
* Hamlet D'Arcy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting?
Perhaps some links.
I've never heard of the group.
I have no ability to handle dates (ok, we can also include names,
phone numbers and addresses (non computer) into this if we want) and
hence always have a problem when the meeting occurs on the first of
the month - i simply haven't came to terms with the fact that it
is a new month yet. hence i proposed that the we'd meet on the 8th
when this happens, so my logic was ...
if (meeting date = 1st of mth) {
meet on 8th
} else {
meet on 1st thursday of mth
}
someone simplified this to ...
meetings are held on the day after the first wednesday of
the month
i then partitioned for this change, but dave held valiantly against
myself and the other usual suspects (JS,DC,) - i was also at
some stage called `the heretic'
philip newton even gimped something up about this
however i then ``refused'' to recognise the real meetings if they
occured on the 1st, even though i may attend them
so it was decided whenever the meeting _should_ of been held on
the 8th we would have an additional meeting, named ``the heretics
meeting'', we had our first last month at the very fine anchor pub
last month we had a meal that was ok, but a bit pricey, however in
the anchor we found a nice open fire that was roaring away hapilly
and coupled with some really quite good beer we sat by the fire
talking and joking as usual
a good time was had by all by the fire, and so heretics meetings
from now on are going to be the same sort of cozy fireside chats
there will only be another 2 this year - this year has been a
very heretical year (3 meetings!)
ok, that makes everything crystal
are you sorry you asked?
Greg
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Re: Heretics' meeting
On or about Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:44:31PM +, Greg McCarroll typed: someone simplified this to ... meetings are held on the day after the first wednesday of the month Guilty. What can I say, it was my first meeting. Roger
Re: Heretics' meeting
At 17:44 28/02/01 +, you wrote:
* Hamlet D'Arcy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting?
Perhaps some links.
I've never heard of the group.
I have no ability to handle dates (ok, we can also include names,
phone numbers and addresses (non computer) into this if we want) and
hence always have a problem when the meeting occurs on the first of
the month - i simply haven't came to terms with the fact that it
is a new month yet. hence i proposed that the we'd meet on the 8th
when this happens, so my logic was ...
if (meeting date = 1st of mth) {
meet on 8th
} else {
meet on 1st thursday of mth
}
someone simplified this to ...
meetings are held on the day after the first wednesday of
the month
i then partitioned for this change, but dave held valiantly against
myself and the other usual suspects (JS,DC,) - i was also at
some stage called `the heretic'
philip newton even gimped something up about this
however i then ``refused'' to recognise the real meetings if they
occured on the 1st, even though i may attend them
so it was decided whenever the meeting _should_ of been held on
the 8th we would have an additional meeting, named ``the heretics
meeting'', we had our first last month at the very fine anchor pub
last month we had a meal that was ok, but a bit pricey, however in
the anchor we found a nice open fire that was roaring away hapilly
and coupled with some really quite good beer we sat by the fire
talking and joking as usual
a good time was had by all by the fire, and so heretics meetings
from now on are going to be the same sort of cozy fireside chats
there will only be another 2 this year - this year has been a
very heretical year (3 meetings!)
ok, that makes everything crystal
Sorry, still don't get it! Can I have it as a perl script?
are you sorry you asked?
Greg
RE: Heretics' meeting
Sorry, still don't get it! Can I have it as a perl script? err... #!/usr/local/bin/perl # find heretics meetings my @ary = localtime(); print "meeting today!" if ($ary[6] ==4 $ary[3] 1 $ary[3] 9); Possibly
RE: Heretics' meeting
At 17:23 28/02/01 -, you wrote: Sorry, still don't get it! Can I have it as a perl script? err... #!/usr/local/bin/perl # find heretics meetings my @ary = localtime(); print "meeting today!" if ($ary[6] ==4 $ary[3] 1 $ary[3] 9); Possibly OK, its 'meetings are held on the day after the first wednesday of the month'. That makes perfect sense now, Matt
Re: Heretics' meeting
* at 28/02 17:37 + Michael Stevens said: On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:33:34PM +, Matthew Robinson wrote: OK, its 'meetings are held on the day after the first wednesday of the month'. That makes perfect sense now, I work on the "meetings are held whenever more than half the people on irc mention a pub" theory. now i don't hang about on irc but if it's like the list then that's a lot of meetings struan
heretics meeting
"Kids let me tell you about another so-called ``wicked'' guy. He had long hair and some wild ideas. He didn't always do what other people thought was right. And that man's name was ... I forget. But the point is I forget that, too. Marge you know who I'm talking about. He used to drive that blue car?" Homer J. Simpson Episode : Homer the Heretic i've booked a table at the anchor for 12 people on thursday night at 6:30 - its a booked for a meal but we can stay and have a lot of beers afterwards, i'm getting a menu faxed over later if someone can make sure spurkis knows about this - it would be a good thing. the full name of the pub is not the wanchor as people who have worked at FT.com would recognise, but in fact is `the anchor at bankside', its in SE1 very near to London Bridge more info can be found at http://www.cockney.co.uk/anchor.htm i think we might have the table in a private room and the food is reasonable and good, and a good night should be had by all there is also an outside area and if it is above 0 degrees C, we may go out for a quick sorting dance where we measure the cost of the algorithm by having a gulp of beer everytime you are involved in a compare or swap operation (the sorting algorithm will be bubble sort and the list will initially be in reverse order ;-) ) we may be entertaining Davydka Cross, Dave Cross' long lost russian twin brother at the meeting, Dave will of course not be attending this meeting as it would be an act of recognition of the validity of the ``first day after the first wednesday of the month'' aka heretics algorithm for the calculation of london.pm meetings if people mail me off list to let me know if they are coming or not i can increase/decrease the booking size on wednesday Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
