[Lug-nuts] Re: Social tonight. anybody coming?

AFAIK the next meeting is at the same Bel Air we have been using. I enjoyed last night's meeting. The rPi's with chorded keyboards were really interesting for me. I hurt my back a while back and have a set up with a monitor at the foot of the bed and a wireless keyboard and mouse. I found the keyboard gets in the way and started looking for alternatives. There have been a lot of abortive morse code input devices and apparenlty there was once an android keyboard. I settled for an on screen keyboard so that I only have to use the mouse. My back is better, but I still have the set up. I use it on lazy days, like today. I'm using it now but I'm using a full keyboard. I use a screen magnifier too. I'm still playing around with morse code and maybe I'll look into trying out a chorded keyboard or maybe a keyer. The svg webpage was pretty cool. Although I think Sen was being a little deceptive when he said it didn't use any javascript. There was certainly a lot of other code. I was looking at it upside down. It will be nice when we can all see things like that right side up at Bel Air. We did have a fairly private location at Kupros and my happy hour grilled cheese sandwich and macaroni salad was really good. The brief discussion of Sputnik and germanium semiconductors really took me back. I worked in semiconductor fabraication on silicon for about 15 years. I studied it in school. I hadn't thought about the alternative materials for quite some time. Sacramento may still have a small GaAs fab. I haven't looked for awhile. I had some questions about AI and everyone seemed familiar with a book on the subject and someone called it the "bible". Could someone remind me of the author and title. I'd like to pursue reading it. Thanks Brian for hosting. -Gary