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April 2016
Harrison and Burgess – Mechanisms of Time
Never slowing Never stopping Always flowing Moment by moment Chronologically speaking, this talk is going to be really only a very small part of the "timey wimey..." concept. Extremely small and brief. Douglas Adams dreamt up the concept of the Total Perspective Vortex to blow both of Zaphod's minds into insignificance merely by experiencing the size of the Universe and Creation. Would Zaphod have survived the added dimension of the mind numbing vastness and extreme range of scales experienced…
Find out more »May 2016
Savai Past The Newshouse
Still good, and too long forsaken, this week's social delight wanders over to a far flung long neglected corner to dash past the BBC webcam at: 7:30pm Thursday 05/05/2016 Meet in the Newshouse on Canal Street for rustic charm and to enjoy a good selection of real ales: Newshouse 123 Canal Street Nottingham NG1 7HB Tel: 0115 9523061 OpenStreetMap To thence wander along 8pm to the "BBC roundabout" to eat Italian style at Savai: Savai Italian Restaurant and…
Find out more »A New CPU
Daryl wants to make his very own CPU... Anthropopithecus troglodytes Decoded from the bubbles of his last beer, this YACPU is to be: His own empirical design; Something that is 'different'; "Just for fun"! Can the parallel accumulated might of NLUG guide him on his search?... All at our usual Organ Grinder venue, usual 7:30pm start, details as below. All welcome! :-) *: YACPU - Yet-Another-CPU CPU - Central Processing Unit SPOILERS! (Not for Daryl's eyes...) :-)…
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Brew Dog Kayal Millionaires!
Folks, In our dire times of FUD and Brexit, now is the time to try a change of brew and to jump across multiple borders and ways. Welcoming new boarders ( ;-) ) sees this social at 7:30pm testing an alternative to our usual ale to instead sample some "Craft Beer" (also described as "modern American style") at the Nottingham BrewDog Bar in Hockley. Also of great note, for what might be a first for any brewery in the world,…
Find out more »Ever Widening Adoption of Open Source Ways
For our adventures across ideas and ideals tonight, we have: Is it "OSS", "FOSS", "FLOSS", "F/LOSS", "F/L-OSS", or "copyleft"? Or the complete freedom of the "commons" or the "Public Domain"? What do we mean by being "open" or "open source"? What else might be meant? But regardless of all the surrounding jargon, does all this "openness" stuff work? Usefully? In our strange times of 'Brexit' and extreme-capitalism and Dawkins' "Selfish Gene", and a little Zen: Please come along to…
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