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CmdrTaco And Hemos Speaking At MIT Thurs
Oddly enough, Hemos and I are speaking at MIT tonight, but at different times and places. I'm speaking
at 7pm at the lecture hall about whatever comes to mind (bring questions because my agenda is wide open). Hemos is speaking at Bartos Theater in the MIT Media Laboratory at 20 Ames St. on campus at 5pm as part of their Media In Transition series.
Normally we tend not to plug stuff like this, but this should be fun, so if you happen to be in the area, swing by either talk. I promise to embarrass myself by stuttering and rambling, proving that I speak just as badly as I write!
10= Building 10, under the great dome. Possibly a ground zero in the cold war.
2= Second Floor
50= Room number
10-250 was a nice medium sized lecture hall, a _few_ years back.
I wonder if LSC has started showing 3rd run B movies now too.
Got the latest issue of Linux Magazine in the mail last night and saw Malda and Bates interviewed.
http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-10/toc.html
I can't help you with the petrified bit, but IIRC she goes to that small liberal arts college just up the road from MIT.
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Luckily for Taco, bad spelling is impossible to detect in public speaking. So for once, his incredibly reliable mangling of the word 'weird' will go unnoticed. :)
Good luck with the trolls, Taco. Maybe a certain Natalie P. will make a surprise appearance??
Correction: 10:30 pm tonight, midnight friday and saturday.
Not knowing where the /. crew is, I humbly ask, "which MIT?" The Massachusetts Institute of Tech, or Michigan?
Because it was the MI6 building that got hit.
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Frag limits are meaningless... this is a CounterStrike operation.
I'll do 'im with the AWP.
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Anyone got good sniping skills?
I do, but since it's Taco and Hemos and not Katz, I'll be staying at home.
LK
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Yeah, I can just imagine the B.O.
Actually, I cant.
While you're there, please remind those kids to take a shower once in a while and get some dental work.
The last place anyone who knows better wants to go to is RPI.
You're a suburbanite.
why? from 5am to 7pm it's 14 hours. theres plenty of time to sleep...
greetings, eMBee.
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shut the fuck up, boy.
The real question the Boston /. contingent is asking is, what bar will you be sitting in AFTER the speaking engagement?
/. status into a few freebies :p
I'm sure you can parley your
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This thread is going to devolve into this, or at least some messages will... so here goes. What are the geekiest colleges out there?
I know CMU, MIT and Caltech are pretty high up. My college, Cornell University, seems to have a pretty high geek ratio too. Any other geeky schools?
-Nick
I just moved to RI, I'm at Johnson and Wales. If I were still in Massachusetts (My home town is 45mins from MIT) I'd probably go.
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I don't consider either one of you worthy
ya know, I really genuinely hate attitudes like that.
I'd like to know where you get off judging these guys like that. I mean, what are your criteria for "worthy of podium" speakers? College degree? Wrote a book?
Did you realize that the more educated a person is, the less likely they are to wash their hands?
Just goes to show where your values lie.
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Having attended CmdrTaco's speech, I gotta say it sucked. Seriously. At sometime around his 5th interruption of a question with "Blue!" or "Boxers!", I realized that the proprietor of technophile village's 'town pub' lacks any perspective or insight at all. Most bartenders have a more perspective on life. Folks, your fearless leader is nothing but a guy who had the right Pearl at the right time.
I have to agree..
:)
Gee thanks for giving us a whole 12 hours notice !!
Some of us have Theory of Computation AND Cryptology problem sets due tomorrow too.
So if i walk out early it's not because you guys are boring or nething
Smthng.
Damn! You beat me to it!
It was a pretty amusing piece of irony, though! =)
It's okay CmdrTaco, we understand. =)
And good luck tonight! I wish I could be there, but I'm stuck in picturesque Cleveland (proud polluters of Lake Erie, but at least our river isn't on fire anymore!)
If you do go, I recommend finding the MIT museum as well. It is well worth the time it will take you to find it.
uhh... We are talking about MIT, right?
Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from Gods.
Just out of curiosity, where did you guys go to college?
Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from Gods.
No way. Way, dude! I just filled my butane lighter and bought some toilet paper rolls.
no kidding. me too. DAMN.
there is no thing
what else could you want?
Guys,
This is rather short notice. How about some
earlier announcements next time?
Hari.
Thoroughly blocking Mem Drive to those of us who commute under the overpass to our cubicle rat jobs in Kendall Square.
mit anime, harvard anime, boston u. anime... anime crash, tokyo kid, the brattle, hfa... stuck in new york, it's okay, but i really miss boston and mit!
And I was actually hoping to get a seat in Bartos...damnit!
Hey, come on! You guys can drive a couple hours outside of the Geek Compound to come speak at U-M, cantcha? Huh? HUH?
:)
El riesgo vive siempre!
how many "frist ps0t" geeks will get there early to get "frist question"?
I have no words... (except for these) :)
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damnit, I wish you guys would of said something earlier - I could of actually made it over there to seeone of you guys talk. I mean how often do such famous members of the geek community come near me, oh yeah I'm at MIT - never mind.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb."
Will there be a contingent of ~20 people running into the Auditoruim to try and claim first seat? Funny, I always thought you had to audition for First Chair...
I was waiting for that...
How you see the world is how the world sees you.
Hey, what am I doing reading /, at 5am?
I have truly crossed over to the darkside...
It might be interesting to see you guys talk. I'm in Mass., maybe I'll swing on over there.
How you see the world is how the world sees you.
"Hemos is speaking at Bartos Theater in the MIT Media Laboratory at 20 Ames St. on campus at 5pm as part of their Media In Transition series.. "
:-)
Later, they will both be at the Pine Street Inn, feeding the homeless as part of their community service..
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I saw him speak at the Geek Pride festival in Boston back in April. An appropriate title would have been "CmdrTaco babbles incoherently". There was clearly little to no preparation involved. It was quite slow at first, but he did manage to engage the audience in some discussion after a bit, and then it actually got interesting.
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Dude, MIT had Ralph Nader last May. But, you guys had Mike Nelson. Damn you. He shoulda been Nader's running mate.
Sniping skills? Sure! What's the frag limit?
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And not a fucking chick in sight.
say hello to mr. chomsky for us.
I just got back from the talk, and I have to say that I found Rob to be quite an engaging speaker, even if he wasn't able to be honest with the audience about how 'phyiscally close' he and Jeff Bates were when Slashdot was starting...
100 points if someone is actually injured in a vi/emacs war.
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Will who ever gives the first speech will be modded down as -1 troll ?
while your at it stop by RPI too
Of course, those of us working in the tech office parks of Burlington and Waltham do not have to worry about the Republic of Cambridge.
>Just don't screw up and imagine just yourself in >your underwear (Now you're going to wake up >screaming from a horrible nightmare where you >lecture at MIT in your underwear...)
Hmm..
Actually I always found that it worked better that way...
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Hey! Get outta our lakes! Filthy scumball...
Man I would love to come down and see you guys!
But I got a class in Danvers (to the north about 30 min) from 7pm to 10pm. Maybe I'll skip it and come see you guys.
The class is COMP101 and last week we covered what part of the sentence is the verb and the subject. Due to me attending high school prior to college and a slight understanding of the english language, I was ready to chew my hand off my wrist. So I doubt I'll miss much (Isn't justifying great).
How long do each of the shows run?
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no way, first seat sucks, the thing to aim for is first person to interupt with a good troll question like, "Can you imagine a beowulf of those?" or better yet... just a completely offtopic question involving grits, portman, and linux.
How many moderation points is CmdrTaco giving him self? Will you be moderated out of the lecture for showing up first?
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
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at a minimum, tomorrow you'll get to hear their first-hand accounts of the actually definition of "hack" from their new and unique perspective.
I mean, let's face it - these guys aren't huge thinkers or public activists. They run (ran?) a popular website which is essentially a "gosh-gee-wiz-look-at-this" portal.
I find such comments troubling especially when it comes from a community that supposedly embraces the spirit of open source and the belief that ideas discussed in the open arena can lead to better progress. Being a member of the academic community at a prestigious West Coast university, I see this kind of mentalty all the time. People are pro-DeCSS, pro-Napster, pro-Linux ... but they get offended when members of the general Internet community who "lack" the credentials (e.g. big University diplomas, impressive titles at flashy companies/start-ups) begin spouting out their opinions and rise to prominence.
Give me a break. No one said you had to agree with what people say. But even non-Nobel laureates deserve to be heard (note the other lecturers in the series in recent weeks besides D. Adam are Nobel laureates). Now is the MIT lecture halls the proper medium? I think so. Creating and running an online phenom like /. is much more difficult and beneficial than most people give credit (see previous poster). Cmdr Taco not a social activist? C'mon, you don't think a lot of people get their DeCSS/Napster/Open Source juice from this website?
Good luck Rob. Just remember, that as long as you talk about things you know and believe, you'll do fine. No sense trying to pull off the "Cambridge" trick of trying to sound more intelligent than you actually are ;-P
I'll miss the talks because I have band practice, but these things at MIT are usually good.
Oh, and I second the rec for the MIT museum. The holograms are closed, but the Hall of Hacks and kinetic sculptures are well worth it.
I hope everything is distributed via multicast.
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Well, since that's about all i hear about when you guys talk about geek conventions... ;D I just figured I'd tell you that if you go to see the men talk she'll be less than 3 miles away, p'raps in her dorm room here at h'vard.
Wallow in that proximity, geeks!
Let the universe of discourse be wombats...
How about someone putting up a transcript? Any plans on doing this?
I knew Slashdot was popular but, wow. About how many hits does slashdot get a day? or an hour? hehe.
I work at MIT... I wonder if they'll let me out early enough to catch the 5:00pm talk. Hehe...
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For those who were unable to make it, I took some photos and (to the best of my ability) wrote a quite peice on the event,
come check it out at http://sparecycles.net/stories/slash dot.html
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whats up fellow cmu student?
"Recursive bipartite matching"- try it!
I thought the Potemkin was an Armoured Battle Cruiser rather than a battleship, but in any case the film is worth seeing. Major step forward in its day; the first ever use of jump-cutting to convey action. It will also contribute to your understanding of the Woodie Allen film "Bananas". Potemkin himself, after whom the warship was named, was minister of war for Catherine the Great. When she wanted to tour the country to see how her subjects were living he had fake showpiece villages constructed.
although every college I have ever been to has had parking problems. I think they it may be unforeseeable considering that more businesses than ever require a degree.
As events like these at MIT show, and as slashdot quickly approaches a quarter of a million users, it's time for a slashdot reunion. Below is enclosed a list of the first 50 users, the folks who really know what it means to say, "I remember the good ol' days." How many of these users are still active? Reply, and show your true colors. The who replies with the lowest userid gets a prize! CmdrTaco (1) email: malda@slashdot.org /proc/kcore >> /dev/audio
Hemos (2)
drendite (3) email: reishus@utdallas.edu
CowboyNeal (4) email: pater@slashdot.org
samzenpus (5)
jgoldsch (6)
CLorox (7) email: clorspam@marblehead.com
Emmett Plant (8) email: emmett@slashdot.org
keith (9) email: kcalder at andrew.cmu.edu
ximenes (10) email: sak8@po.cwru.edu
velkro (11) email: root@localhost
RAD Kade 1 (12) email: kmradlof@nospam@colby.edu
TechNoir (13) email: technoir@linux.com
Christopher Bibbs (14)
DeadBeef (15) email: spam@osoal.org.nz
Tom Rothamel (16) email: tom-slashdot@onegeek.org
Rolf W. Rasmussen (17) email: rolfwr+slashdot@ii.uib.no
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Anyway, I'l play RobLimo here -- post the questions you want me to ask Rob and I'll ask the highest moderated ones.
My own questions:
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
"Rocky, watch me pull Douglas Adams out of a hat."
"But that trick never works, Bullwinkle."
"This time for sure!"
Adams has stood up these engagements
many, many times. So keep your fingers
crossed and eyes peeled.
I just heard that the new General Cinema at Landmark Center (former Sears building near Fenway) is having a $2 midnight showing of the Matrix tonight.
Hope you guys can make it!
I'm assuming MIT has roads round it.. Never been there tho...
And I thought CMU was so geek-friendly because we had Mystery Science Theater 3000's MIKE NELSON here on Monday, and Ralph Nader next Tuesday. Come on our, guys! We need you for Geek Week!
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What was the point of that post? To show your distaste for MIT? To imply that you're a super-smart badass who doesn't need a measly school like MIT? Get a life.
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I'm still trying to find the picture of CmdrTaco hoolding a "Taco sucks" sticker that Lion made at the last linuxfest.
Just don't screw up and imagine just yourself in your underwear (Now you're going to wake up screaming from a horrible nightmare where you lecture at MIT in your underwear...)
Another possibility is to look out and think "You will all be enslaved once my Satanic Minions take over the world." I hear that works quite well for Bill Gates. Pity he didn't use it when giving testimony under oath.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Hey, since you'll both be in the same area at the same time, maybe you could get CowboyNeal in the area or just some other random people for a Geeks in Space reunion. This time including Hemos who was absent at the last show. Or you could make your guest the entire crowd that shows up for the talk.
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."
You're speaking at 7 pm, and you're posting this at 5 am. Shouldn't you like get some sleep or something?
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You're giving lectures at the premier technological university and no one has arranged a video feed of the events? Tsk tsk. I don't suppose there's any chance that it will at least be videotaped for posting on a web site later? It would be nice to see what you guys look like. It makes stalking so much easier ... 8-)
"If I have seen further than other men, it is by stepping on their glasses." - Michael Swaine
You've come a long way from Hope College baby! A school whose basketball sked includes Hope vs. Calvin. The theological implications are chilling.
uh.. The US isn't very small.. It'd take me quite a while to get there.
Though I may like my mental version of the talk better. CmdrTaco wanders on stage and says, ``Geez, I'm at MIT, and I know something you don't! Nyah, nyah!!''
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Although, what with fame these days being dictated solely on face time, I guess these guys are celebrities or something.
Nothing personal guys, but I don't consider either one of you worthy of a podium lecture at a major university...
Douglas Adams will be there too.....Later date, though.
proving that speak just as badly as I write
Indeed.
CmrdTaco at 26-100
Hemos at Bartos Theater
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And what about the rest of the world (outside of the US)? Can we follow it too by realvideo or something or is that a bit too much to ask? (on the other hand; media in transvision, the name sounds right for it IMHO).
I haven't been to the Missouri Institute of Trucking in forever! If they roll one of those fake coyotes on rollers out in front of you, just nail it. Takes em hours to glue all the fur back on.
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Will there be a contingent of ~20 people running into the Auditoruim to try and claim first seat?
Oh my god.. /. readers...
I can picture it now... The roads full of geeks cars, and the building overflowing with
Hopefully though, the building won't collapse under the load.
Malk
I hope your claimed lack of preparedness is ironic. Otherwise it is moronic. It is all well and good to know your subject matter thoroughly, but to expect to be able to carry the show by answering questons is a BIG mistake. Without preparation and a good start to your talk, you will not generate enough enthusiasm in the audience for them to ask any questions worth answering. There is still time. Do it!. Write it out verbatim if you have to. At least WRITE down all the points you want to cover, and the order you want to cover them in. Otherwise you will die, even in front of a small audience. Good luck!