Short-notice Geek Lunch

Grok Headline matches for Short-notice Geek Lunch

Short Notice Music Metadata Summit

Short Notice Music Metadata Summit 04/12/2004 06:08 PM

We're hosting a very short notice music metadata summit tomorrow 3-6PM (Pacific) on the Stanford campus and online (IRC).

We hope to come to decisions on several concrete issues, including metadata for tipjars, license buyouts, purchasing, and "remix ready" content as well as discuss how various music metadata-related projects can better collaborate and encourage adoption by others.

Thanks to Christopher Allen and Magnatune for the idea, and a visit by Rob Kaye of MusicBrainz for a reason to do it now.

See you there, or in the ether.

Yahoo! News - Iraq Governor Bremer Heads
to U.S. at Short Notice

Yahoo! News - Iraq Governor Bremer Heads
to U.S. at Short Notice 11/12/2003 01:17 PM
abruptly called to Washington .. left the building .. Shit-canning him

news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&u=/nm/20031111/ts_nm/ira q_bremer_dc_1&printer=1
track this site | 6 links

78% of US audio conferencing minutes to
go to short-notice conferencing

78% of US audio conferencing minutes to
go to short-notice conferencing 03/14/2005 06:24 PM
ZDNet Mar 14 2005 9:48PM GMT

BugMe! Notepad for Palm OS Earns Highest
Rating 5 "Geek Heads" from Geek.com

BugMe! Notepad for Palm OS Earns Highest
Rating 5 "Geek Heads" from Geek.com 07/22/2004 02:33 AM
Geek.com, a popular Web site for computing and gadgetry enthusiasts, has published a review of Electric Pocket’s BugMe! Notepad for Palm OS 5.x—with the reviewer hailing it as “an application that I absolutely cannot do without.” [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

Replay Radio geek solutions to geek
problems

Replay Radio geek solutions to geek
problems 09/21/2004 06:38 AM

The building I work in does not receive Radio receptions real good. The guys and I in the office like to listen to a particular radio show and we knocked our heads together for a while trying to figure out how to improve the reception. Fixing the reception problem proved to be impossible but we did find a geeks way to fix the problem.

I purchased Replay Radio and set it up at home to record the network stream of the program. It saves the recorded stream in MP3 format every 30 minutes and dumps it in a directory that I have mapped to a FTP server. I have a standard FTP client running on my desktop that downloads the MP3 to my laptop which is connected to the network and we load the MP3 up and listen to the program time delay.

My work does not allow for streaming audio. So to avoid confusion I asked permission to do this via our IT department and promised to keep the file sizes under control. They thought it was cool and gave the thumbs up. It worked out so well that several departments do the same thing and we have 2-3 national talk radio programs to listen to each day. Albeit time delay but it works. [Replay Radio]

" Replay Radio is an incredibly easy way to record radio broadcasts. It's like a "TiVo™ DVR" for the radio. Just pick your favorite radio show, or select a station and a time range, and Replay Radio records it for you. Hundreds of shows and stations are pre-programmed, making recording as easy as point and click."

Cow for lunch?

Cow for lunch? 12/30/2004 06:51 AM
USA Today Dec 30 2004 10:59AM GMT

Doing Lunch

Doing Lunch 10/31/2003 12:35 AM
Well, due to other circumstances, I was not able to get to the exhibit hall at TenCon, but Tom did...

Lunch: $25,000 Per Person

Lunch: $25,000 Per Person 07/09/2004 03:09 PM
Warren Buffett helps the needy in San Francisco.

Mmm lunch [Flickr]

Mmm lunch [Flickr] 12/27/2004 08:01 PM

mathowie posted a photo:

Mmm lunch

Lunch at Buck's

Lunch at Buck's 05/06/2004 05:36 PM

I had lunch at Buck's today.  Believe it or not, it was my first time.  Despite countless lunches with VCs, I somehow never had lunch there.  Joining me were Bill Harris and Louie Gasparini, respectively Chairman and CTO of PassMark Security.  Although I didn't eat much as usual, I really enjoyed the lunch.

Bill, who was CEO of PayPal and Intuit, had great stories to tell.  The ability to tell stories well is a valuable skill I wish I had but don't.  All I can manage is react intelligently or project voice to forcefully pound in a message or two.  That's second class IMHO compared to the ability to paint and animate a picture with voice.

Anyhow, I am happy that I'll be working closely with two of the nicest people in the Silicon Valley.  I'll have to try that artichoke next time when I am hungrier.  Robert, remember that lunch you owed me?

What do you do on your lunch break?

What do you do on your lunch break? 07/15/2004 01:44 PM
A report on lunchtime eating in the UK reveals a change in workers' habits. Are you one of the 20% who never take a break?

Lethal Lunch

Lethal Lunch 03/14/2005 06:01 PM

« A pair of snowmen in the park. Is it just me or did there seem to be a lot fewer snowmen around town this year? »

There is one detail in the structure of the Finnish workday that remains a bit strange; lunch. In the US, few workplaces have a cafeteria and most folks either eat at their desk or drive to the nearest Taco Hell and make a run for the border in their car. Lunch is an unceremonious affair if people take a lunch at all. I spent years either working instead of lunch or eating a sandwich at my desk somewhere around 2pm. Here, lunchtime is 11am and it seems, with rare exception, that everyone heads to the cafeteria and has a hearty, hot lunch. I presume that since few people have cars that driving off the rez for eatz just isn't possible, so a large majority just eat in. Lunch still feels like a guilty pleasure even though I've grown used to the 11am schedule, but the food....well, no.

My weight hadn't changed by more than a kilogram or two in 10 years until I started eating lunch at the cafeteria at work and I'm starting to suspect that the Finnish lunch is, in fact, deadly. Actually, I don't think my diet has really changed at all, except for the work cafeteria food, for the past 3 months so it must be responsible for my expanding landscape. I had heard rumous about the Finnish cafeteria food, but the scathing reviews didn't come close to the reality. It's not an all-you-can-eat buffet and I'm not snarfing heaping globs of the grey, unidentified goo that the cook feels compelled to stand next to and reassure the diners that it really is edible and does taste good in spite of the colour. The cook also seems to love curry for those days where the leftovers are 'repurposed' by putting them into a bright yellow curry goo and served with rice. When the entree isn't grey or curry yellow, it's brown. Rice, pasta and au gratin potatoes of some variety are a fixture. It's all the food that the videos in health class warned you not to eat. I keep imagining that we'll watch someone keel over from a massive heart attack in the middle of a mound of pyttipannu topped with 2 or 3 fried eggs. You know it's a bad day when most tables have salt, pepper and/or HP sauce being passed around as they did today. I never take the dessert, often a vat of an unknown gloop, since I generally prefer a dessert with texture even if the stuff happens to taste good. And water is the only beverage since Finnish cafeterias haven't been bought by the soft drink conglomerates which leaves a variety of milk products and a slightly alcoholic beer called kotikalja that, even at 1% ABV, I just can't bring myself to drink during working hours. Perhaps Martha Stewart's next book could be on mess hall/cafeteria/prison cooking in an attempt to help prisoners everywhere get a decent meal. We can only hope.

I really must stop eating lunch in the cafeteria every day and start riding my bike to work again soon instead of sitting on the bus so that I'll hopefully be able to avoid what really terrifies me most: shopping for new clothes. In Finland.

$200,000 for Buffett Lunch (Reuters)

$200,000 for Buffett Lunch (Reuters) 07/09/2004 10:25 AM
Reuters - For about $200,000, you can buy two shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s stock, or you can have lunch with its chairman -- Warren Buffett.

A free lunch with Microsoft

A free lunch with Microsoft 08/04/2004 04:34 AM
I chatted with Microsoft's Jason Matusow last week. That, in itself, isn't unusual as most weeks I talk to someone from the Redmond Empire. But this was a bit more interesting because it took place at the Open Source Conference, and Matusow was wearing a badge identifying him as a Microsoftie.

Plan Jason's lunch

Plan Jason's lunch 03/06/2004 01:52 AM
Today is one of those days when I don't feel like eating. All my favorite foods from my favorite lunch spots seem boring and unappealing to me. If I had access to an IV, I'd skip lunch, hook myself up, and get my midday sustenance that way. But as that's not an option, what should I have to eat today for lunch? Options around Grand Central appreciated. Update: I'm back... (with comments)

After the lunch hour, we'll help you
relax a bit

After the lunch hour, we'll help you
relax a bit 01/26/2004 06:35 AM
After the lunch hour, we'll help you relax a bit. Mood lit, time of day sensitive programming comes to your favorite local newspaper web portal. Will something like this fly? Has it been done before? Is this being done elsewhere now?

No such thing as a free lunch?

No such thing as a free lunch? 09/24/2004 02:11 PM
It's the latest buzz to sweep the internet--free iPods for signing up and referring five of your friend. There was plenty of skepticism at first, but when positive reports started coming in, the popularity of the site took off. But like any pyramid scheme, the people who are only signing up now are getting burned. And of course, won't someone think of the children?

Short Men with Short Dreams

Short Men with Short Dreams 03/14/2005 05:39 PM
This will just be a quickie. New iPod photos and iPod minis were released today. Cheaper, bigger, whatever. The thing...

Oscar nominees meet up for lunch

Oscar nominees meet up for lunch 02/10/2004 05:19 AM
Oscar nominees including Keisha Castle-Hughes meet for the traditional pre-Academy Awards lunch.

HP does lunch with DreamWorks, Warner
Bros

HP does lunch with DreamWorks, Warner
Bros 04/19/2004 12:13 AM
CNET Apr 19 2004 4:15AM GMT

419ers get God, distribute millions,
then do lunch

419ers get God, distribute millions,
then do lunch 02/11/2004 10:56 AM
Busy times for the lads from Lagos

There's No Such Thing as a Free
(Software) Lunch.

There's No Such Thing as a Free
(Software) Lunch. 06/18/2004 08:36 PM
Jay Michaelson: There's No Such Thing as a Free (Software) Lunch. This is perhaps the only article I've seen that so clearly distinguishes between freedom for software and freedom for programmers. Software isn't alive; why should it have freedom?

Dear Ben and Mena, Thanks for lunch!
[Flickr]

Dear Ben and Mena, Thanks for lunch!
[Flickr] 02/05/2005 10:08 PM

HP does lunch with DreamWorks, Warner
Bros.

HP does lunch with DreamWorks, Warner
Bros. 04/19/2004 12:19 AM
Hewlett-Packard is tightening its partnership with DreamWorks SKG and beginning a new one with Warner Bros. Studios, part of HP's efforts in utility computing and digital entertainment.

Lunch with Buffett comes at a price
(Reuters)

Lunch with Buffett comes at a price
(Reuters) 07/09/2004 12:05 AM
Reuters - For about $200,000 (108,000 pounds), you can buy two shares of Berkshire Hathaway's stock, or you can have lunch with its chairman -- Warren Buffett.

5 Ways to Eat Your Competition for Lunch
Using Google

5 Ways to Eat Your Competition for Lunch
Using Google 09/23/2004 09:21 PM
WebProNews Sep 24 2004 0:53AM GMT

There Ain't No Such Thing As A
Carbohydrate-Free Lunch

There Ain't No Such Thing As A
Carbohydrate-Free Lunch 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
The Los Angeles CBS affiliate has just released a damning report on low-carb foodstuffs, in which its lab determines that many low-carb foodstuffs have far more carbohydrate content than claimed by the manufacturers ("Low-Carb Emporium claims 15 grams of carbs per bagel. Our lab found... 55").

At Subway we tested the Turkey Bacon Melt Wrap. Subway claims that it has 22 grams of carbs, while our lab results showed it at 28 grams...

At Carl's Jr., we tested the low-carb Six Dollar Burger, which the company claims has six grams of carbohydrates. Our lab results: 9 grams...

We tested TGIF's Sizzling New York Strip with Blue Cheese. TGIF claims 6 net carbs and 11 total carbs. Our lab found 20 total carbs...

Low-Carb Emporium claims 15 grams of carbs per bagel. Our lab found triple the carbs -- 55. Low-carb Emporium says they just re-did the formulas and will be getting lab reports on new formulas soon.

Link (Thanks, saiyuk!)

Market Takes Educate's Lunch Money

Market Takes Educate's Lunch Money 09/24/2004 01:16 PM
Sylvan Learning Systems' owner goes public.

Lawyer's Request Denied on Bologna Lunch
(AP)

Lawyer's Request Denied on Bologna Lunch
(AP) 05/05/2004 07:41 PM
AP - A lawyer's complaints about his client's lunches are baloney, a Superior Court judge ruled. Attorney John Williams asked the judge if he could bring lunches for his client, arguing that the prison-issued bologna sandwiches are not nutritious.

Ex-U.S. Sgt. on Agenda at Bush-Koizumi
Lunch (Reuters)

Ex-U.S. Sgt. on Agenda at Bush-Koizumi
Lunch (Reuters) 06/07/2004 10:37 AM
Reuters - The diplomatically delicate fate of a former U.S. army sergeant will be on the agenda when Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dines with President Bush at a world leaders' summit in the United States Tuesday.

Concerning Naked Lunch Part 4: Drugs and
Addicts

Concerning Naked Lunch Part 4: Drugs and
Addicts 06/22/2005 01:58 AM
This is the 4th in a series of essays about the novel Naked Lunch.  This essay will deal with the issue of Drugs and their portrayal in the novel.

The New Computer Lifecycle: No Free
Lunch (NewsFactor)

The New Computer Lifecycle: No Free
Lunch (NewsFactor) 02/19/2004 04:48 PM
NewsFactor - Enterprise managers looking to economize by extending computer-replacement cycles should know that recent research upholds the axiom: There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Concerning Naked Lunch: Part 2 - Nausea
and Irony

Concerning Naked Lunch: Part 2 - Nausea
and Irony 06/05/2005 10:54 PM
 This is the second in a series of essays about the book Naked Lunch, designed to introduce the book properly to new readers. Generally, people hear about the life of William Burroughs before they read any of his work. The goal of these essays is to point out the more important aspects of the work, rather than the man. This essay will deal with the use of irony and satire in Burroughs' work, and the way he uses them to highlight the hypocrisy of his time.

A Lance, a Lunch or a Mate, All for the
Price of a Horn

A Lance, a Lunch or a Mate, All for the
Price of a Horn 04/26/2004 06:53 PM
Honrs are largely confined to a small and modern slice of mammals, hoofed ungulates, and some unusual reptiles and insects.

SAD 54 Working Out Kinks In New School
Lunch System

SAD 54 Working Out Kinks In New School
Lunch System 09/08/2004 11:39 PM
The debut of a new "PowerLunch" system, in which students use debit cards to pay for their food, did not impress. By Alan Crowell, Morning Sentinel (via MyAppleMenu)

In Praise Of Exuberant Growth: Finding
That Free Lunch

In Praise Of Exuberant Growth: Finding
That Free Lunch 05/28/2004 05:10 PM
Business Week is running a long excerpt from a new book about the economics of innovation (tragically, Business Week believes that they need to make people click through a ridiculous number of screens to read the whole thing, when having a "single page view" would make much more sense for those of us who hate clicking over and over again and just want to read the damn article). The book is called < i>Rational Exuberance : Silencing the Enemies of Growth and Why the Future Is Better Than You Think and it talks about how risk taking and exuberant growth from innovation helps expand the economy and help so many people increase their standard of living. Considering the focus these days on people who seem more worried about how growth can destroy their jobs, this is a refreshing change. It's a reminder that the economy is not a zero sum game - and innovation helps to expand the overall pie, rather than just shift the pieces around. One of the most interesting ideas in the excerpt is to just look around at how many jobs there are today that were completely unavailable (or even unimaginable) 100 years ago. In fact, you could even make the same argument for ten years ago as compared to today. Even more important is realizing that not all of the job creation is directly attributable to the innovation, but often indirectly. For example, the article points out that massive amusement parks like Disney World in Orlando, Florida wouldn't have made sense without the innovation of commercial airline travel. When people today insist that their can be no new types of jobs in the future if our jobs are offshored or automated, just think how many jobs were created over the last hundred years for people who felt the same way, and realize that the pace of innovation, our "rational exuberance" hasn't slowed down.

Crash Spills Lunch Meat, Closes
Interstate (AP)

Crash Spills Lunch Meat, Closes
Interstate (AP) 04/05/2005 05:00 PM
AP - Talk about fried baloney. A truck hauling lunch meat hit a barricade and careened out of control Tuesday on a Syracuse highway, causing its trailer to catch fire.

The Cranky User: Electronic publishing,
Usability, and a Free Lunch

The Cranky User: Electronic publishing,
Usability, and a Free Lunch 09/13/2002 03:25 AM

BBC NEWS Programmes Working Lunch Google
changes anger web businesses

BBC NEWS Programmes Working Lunch Google
changes anger web businesses 12/05/2003 07:51 AM
report criticising Google's update .. overhauled

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/3290277.stm< br />track this site | 6 links

Grok Description matches for Short-notice Geek Lunch
GrokA matches for Short-notice Geek Lunch

Short-notice Geek Lunch

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: