Here are the notes from the May meeting of the Atlanta Perl Mongers. I make no claims as to completion or accuracy. Updates welcome.

Pre-Meeting

• SouthEast Linux Fest is coming up on Friday June 10th in Charlotte, NC.
• Show off my USB foot witch.
  • Not super practical but has a “it’s neat” factor (at least for me)
  • I’ll have to put a link to my repo of the arduino code.
  • I plan on writing up a full post about the whole thing just to have some better documentation out there.
  • We discussed using voice commands for vi instead of a foot pedal.
• Discussion of the Harry Potter Theme Park

• Util had to plug “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”

• Util Book Plugs
  • Perl Best Practices useful as always
  • Number Theory - A well written and different approach to teaching Number Theory
  • Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking - picked up cause it looked interesting
  • A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind - also picked up like above

Util YAPC talk - REDACTED

• You had to be here for this totally complete and well put together talk.

• Go see him talk at YAPC

• Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats
• The Camel has Two Humps
  • The draft of the paper is funny

• Learning to Program

• Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • Reddit Thread
    • This caught my eye: the futile art of programming by coincidence
• God has a Github account: https://github.com/god?tab=repositories
  • I don’t see any LISP though
  • 

Dinner Chat

• Got talking about different bits of comedy:
  • Alton Browns Eat Your Science! was a blast at the Fox Theature.
  • Funny bit of one-liners
  • Brian Regan - Hearing Test
  • Brian Regan - Black Coffee
  • Bill Cosby - Parenting/Grandparents
  • Modern Seinfeld
• Talked a little about goal tracking.
  • Don’t Break the Chain
  • A creation of Jerry Seinfelds.
    • Least that’s what most people believe. Util shared that someone finally got around to asking Seinfeld about it and he hadn’t heard of it before but thought it sounded like a good idea.
• In case you were looking for something to listen to: Software Engineering Podcasts Review
  • Reddit Post that lead me to the above.
• Guess there is an O’Reilly Book Cover generator out there as there have been a lot of posts on /r/ProgrammerHumor with different covers. It’s been a bit run in to the ground but there are some funny ones like below: