Re: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting schedule

[Gabriel Weinberg <yegg@duckduckgo.com>]

Yeah the Amtrak is the way to go if possible (and we could schedule
around its schedule). It's much quicker since it only stops at Ardmore.
That's what I usually take (at least one of the ways).

-- 
Gabriel, http://ye.gg/

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014, at 07:49 AM, brainbuz@brainbuz.org wrote:
> The 6:12 from 30th St gets to Paoli at 6:37, the rest of the time it
> takes
> 50 minutes. Going back Septa trains run 60-90 minutes apart, but it looks
> like faster Amtrak trains may also be available and only slightly more
> expensive.
> 
> > We'd be happy to host sometimes at DuckDuckGo, especially as an
> > occasional location change-up. We're in Paoli right off (walking
> > distance) from SEPTA/Amtrak on R5/30th street trains. Right across the
> > street is a good place for after b(urger|eer)s: http://tjseveryday.com/
> >
> > Wrt Unicode, not the worlds expert but we do deal with that and would be
> > happy to contribute to a discussion on it. I find myself essentially
> > relearning it every year when some pernicious bug comes up and enough
> > time has passed where some of the details have atrophied. Practically, I
> > find myself coming back to these two pages each time, which is where I
> > would recommend starting (in that order):
> >
> > http://www.ahinea.com/en/tech/perl-unicode-struggle.html
> > http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunicode.html
> >
> > One thing that has tripped me up repeatedly but not listed on either is
> > your terminal encoding. If you're messing around with Unicode but your
> > terminal encoding is not set to UTF-8 or something like it you're going
> > to have trouble seeing output correctly. One nightmare recently resulted
> > from having two terminal windows open, one with a UTF-8 encoding and one
> > without, and me trying to figure out what was wrong with my code (answer
> > NOTHING).
> >
> > --
> > Gabriel, http://ye.gg/
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014, at 06:02 PM, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> >> Several people emailed me today asking if we were going to have a
> >> meeting tomorrow.  I've got admit, our current "first Monday of the
> >> month" schedule has become really bad for me.  In September I started
> >> teaching a class at Drexel that meets every Tuesday at 9:30 in the
> >> morning.  It's a 3-term course.  Part 2 starts on Tuesday and runs
> >> through mid-March.  Part 3 will start in April and run until June, and
> >> I'm guessing it's likely to meet Tuesday mornings as well.  I've never
> >> taught this course (or anything else!) before, and I like to spend
> >> Monday evenings preparing for class.
> >>
> >> So some other day of the week would work better for me.
> >>
> >> John Karr emailed me a few days to suggest a topic:
> >>
> >> > I'm working on a project where I have to deal with character
> >> > encoding issues a lot.  I'd like to suggest a Unicode Gripe and
> >> > Solutions session.
> >>
> >> That sounds like a great topic to me.  I've never had to deal with
> >> unicode programmatically so I couldn't contribute anything, but I'd
> >> like to hear what people have to say in case I ever do.
> >>
> >> I'd like to also suggest that if anyone has any topic suggestions,
> >> please send them to the mailing list instead of to me directly.  This
> >> is doubly true if you're going to email me on a holiday when I'm about
> >> to head out of town for the better part of two days and am likely to
> >> forget about your email when I get back. :)
> >>
> >> So, to answer the questions, no, we don't have a meeting scheduled for
> >> tomorrow.  I'm not even sure if we even have the room scheduled.  I
> >> suppose there's still time to organize a social meeting, but I
> >> probably won't make it.
> >>
> >> Walt
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