HHC 2015: Nashville!

[Jake Schwartz]

(07-08-2015 07:50 PM)Brad Barton Wrote:  

(07-08-2015 03:54 PM)Namir Wrote:  That's not a long drive!


Namir

It's practically in my backyard! Many of the other conferences have been on the coasts. Glad to have one nearby.

I wonder if Chicago might have been close enough for you as well....it was held in the Chicago area six times (1980, 1984, 1989, 1990, 2001, 2005).

Jake

[Brad Barton]

(07-08-2015 08:24 PM)Jake Schwartz Wrote:  

(07-08-2015 07:50 PM)Brad Barton Wrote:  It's practically in my backyard! Many of the other conferences have been on the coasts. Glad to have one nearby.

I wonder if Chicago might have been close enough for you as well....it was held in the Chicago area six times (1980, 1984, 1989, 1990, 2001, 2005).

Jake

That's definitely close enough, only about 3 hours drive. Unfortunately I wasn't aware of the community at the time those conferences were held.

Happy to have discovered it now though.

[Namir]

I noticed the name Mary Woldering in the attendees of HHC2015 and she is giving a talk "Children of Stone". I checked the Internet and Mary seems to be a writer of stories for subjects that have nothing to do with calculators, math, or statistics.

Is her name in the list by error (meaning she registered by mistake)? Did I miss something????

Namir

[Jake Schwartz]

(07-15-2015 12:18 PM)Namir Wrote:  I noticed the name Mary Woldering in the attendees of HHC2015 and she is giving a talk "Children of Stone". I checked the Internet and Mary seems to be a writer of stories for subjects that have nothing to do with calculators, math, or statistics.

Is her name in the list by error (meaning she registered by mistake)? Did I miss something????

Namir

That would be Jackie's better half :-)

Jake

[Namir]

(07-15-2015 05:06 PM)Jake Schwartz Wrote:  

(07-15-2015 12:18 PM)Namir Wrote:  I noticed the name Mary Woldering in the attendees of HHC2015 and she is giving a talk "Children of Stone". I checked the Internet and Mary seems to be a writer of stories for subjects that have nothing to do with calculators, math, or statistics.

Is her name in the list by error (meaning she registered by mistake)? Did I miss something????

Namir

That would be Jackie's better half :-)

Jake

Thanks Jake! I should never read anything when my blood sugar is low!! Sure way to miss the obvious!!

:-)

Namir <--- the NEW "Captain Obvious"

[Joe Horn]

HHC 2015 didn't have a "theme" until yesterday, when the ever-increasing amount of user-community activity in original but HP-related hardware suggested this theme:

EYAWTKATCUCPBWATA!

You can see it spelled out on the conference home page: http://hhuc.us/2015

I wonder how many folks are old enough to catch the tongue-in-cheek reference?

[rprosperi]

(07-18-2015 12:56 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  HHC 2015 didn't have a "theme" until yesterday, when the ever-increasing amount of user-community activity in original but HP-related hardware suggested this theme:

EYAWTKATCUCPBWATA!

You can see it spelled out on the conference home page: http://hhuc.us/2015

I wonder how many folks are old enough to catch the tongue-in-cheek reference?

Proposed new HHC activity: Who can best pronounce the Theme's acronym(after evening meal and beers, to make it more challenging)...

[jjohnson873]

I noticed that Tim Wessman has committed to attend! Way to go, Tim! Also, I am hopeful that Włodek will be able to travel this year and attend HHC in Nashville. Currently he's listed himself at 50% probability.

[Namir]

Yes, I was glad to see Tim's name on the list of attendees.

Namir

[Joe Horn]

(07-18-2015 01:22 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  

(07-18-2015 12:56 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  EYAWTKATCUCPBWATA!

Proposed new HHC activity: Who can best pronounce the Theme's acronym(after evening meal and beers, to make it more challenging)...

It's close to "I ought to catch a cup of water" which would be appropriate after several stiff drinks. Now, what is Włodek Mier-Jędrzejowicz's name close to?

[rprosperi]

(07-18-2015 05:20 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  

(07-18-2015 01:22 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Proposed new HHC activity: Who can best pronounce the Theme's acronym(after evening meal and beers, to make it more challenging)...

It's close to "I ought to catch a cup of water" which would be appropriate after several stiff drinks. Now, what is Włodek Mier-Jędrzejowicz's name close to?

A tongue twister?

[Geoff Quickfall]

Years ago, after a particularly gruelling day, I had to do some reports on how badly things were handled by airport security. All constructive criticism of course, but I did sign off with the following:

WETMAMEHY.

I got a call three weeks later stating that the problem took two days to solve but they (management) did not get back to me earlier as they wanted to solve the acronym first.

Cheers, Geoff

:-)

[Dave Britten]

(07-18-2015 05:20 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  

(07-18-2015 01:22 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Proposed new HHC activity: Who can best pronounce the Theme's acronym(after evening meal and beers, to make it more challenging)...

It's close to "I ought to catch a cup of water" which would be appropriate after several stiff drinks. Now, what is Włodek Mier-Jędrzejowicz's name close to?

It's spelt 'Włodek Mier-Jędrzejowicz', but it's pronounced 'Throat Warbler Mangrove'.

[TASP]

If it helps all the attendees to further appreciate and relish the experience of participating in the conference knowing that others are chafing and wailing and gnashing their teeth over not being able to attend, then I am happy to provide that embellishment.

[rprosperi]

(07-19-2015 01:14 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  

(07-18-2015 05:20 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  It's close to "I ought to catch a cup of water" which would be appropriate after several stiff drinks. Now, what is Włodek Mier-Jędrzejowicz's name close to?

It's spelt 'Włodek Mier-Jędrzejowicz', but it's pronounced 'Throat Warbler Mangrove'.

YES!! Of course, folks that don't recognize this will surely be scratching their heads... Thanks for the flashback Dave!

[rprosperi]

(07-19-2015 12:44 PM)Geoff Quickfall Wrote:  Years ago, after a particularly gruelling day, I had to do some reports on how badly things were handled by airport security. All constructive criticism of course, but I did sign off with the following:

WETMAMEHY.

I got a call three weeks later stating that the problem took two days to solve but they (management) did not get back to me earlier as they wanted to solve the acronym first.

Cheers, Geoff

:-)

Don't google it folks...

[Namir]

(07-18-2015 01:22 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  

(07-18-2015 12:56 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  HHC 2015 didn't have a "theme" until yesterday, when the ever-increasing amount of user-community activity in original but HP-related hardware suggested this theme:

EYAWTKATCUCPBWATA!

You can see it spelled out on the conference home page: http://hhuc.us/2015

I wonder how many folks are old enough to catch the tongue-in-cheek reference?

Proposed new HHC activity: Who can best pronounce the Theme's acronym(after evening meal and beers, to make it more challenging)...

Is this (the artist) Prince's secret name that he adopted for a while???

Namir

[Geoff Quickfall]

That's bizarre, I tried googling it and the server stops responding. I am in Beijing and it is midnight and the Internet does strange things here, but the acronym and phrase is nothing controversial or rude. The search hangs my iPad.

Weird.

Funny, just tried to google:

EYAWTKATCUCPBWATA!

And the search froze. I wonder if it is something to do with bejings control of the Internet, or does this happen for others.

By the way:

EYAWTKATCUCPBWATA!

Is a small town in Wales and the language is Sumerian or Aramaic and therefore unpronounceable, Wlodek is from there.

[Felix Gross]

Really weird.

Googling EYAWTKATCUCPBWATA from here gives exactly one hit from Joe's page. Let's see how that number increases.

@Geoff: Good night / morning to you. See you at EYAWTKATCUCPBWATA. And I order one copy of the book...

[Jake Schwartz]

Don't forget to bring any HP or calc-related items which you'd like to donate to the HHC2015 conference prize table. There usually turns out to be a few gems there...

Thanks,
Jake