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

Dan, Thank you for showing up to the meeting and bringing your gadgets. I was really impressed with your cases and the way you built the power supply! Brian On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 01:43:26AM -0000, norris.daniel(a)gmail.com wrote: -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture