[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Meeting Reminder: At Zoom Address 972 6146 0830. Potpourri. Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 10AM. Lexington Computer and Technology Group Online Meeting via Zoom

Jonathan Goode jonathan.goode at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 07:59:48 PST 2021


(NOTE: Follow-up Reminder with contents unchanged.)



Jan 27, 2021



















*Potpourri* Peter Albin, your host
Y2K (John Rudy, 20min)
Cryptocurrency and the IRS: What No One Knew About Taxes 24min
<https://talksat.withgoogle.com/talk/cryptocurrency-and-the-irs-what-no-one-knew-about-taxes>
Another Mark Rober video, perhaps? Or a surprise video? Come see.

Freakonomics?
? 3-year effort to video two vortex rings colliding in super slow motion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbdbVhzcM4 8min (Bill Haley)
? Other Mark Rober youtube videos (he did Squirrel vid)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg
(Or, finish earlier topics not completed)



*SPECIAL NOTE - **Links to many of our previous sessions are available
online at http://lctg.toku.us/ <http://lctg.toku.us/>, thanks to the
diligence of Steve Isenberg. This includes all three meetings so far this
year.*



We, the Lexington Computer and Technology Group, meet at the usual 10AM
Wednesday time, BUT ONLINE, using the Zoom Video Conferencing Application,
facilitated by Steve Isenberg.

There is an instruction page at https://toku.us/zoomish but note that the
URL and phone number shown are examples.



Some time after 9:45AM on Wednesday, choose one of the following options:

   - If you have the Zoom application installed, start it and join meeting
   with ID 972 6146 0830
   - From your browser, go to: https://zoom.us/j/97261460830
   - From your smartphone, tap this: +16468769923,,97261460830
   - From a “dumb” telephone, call 1 646 876 9923 and enter meeting ID: 972
   6146 0830

Once the connection is established, you may need to locate and use the
on-screen controls that turn on the sound and the video. You should be able
to see and hear others and they should be able to see and hear you, if you
have a camera and microphone (each of which you can unmute selectively).



If this email wasn't addressed to you and you would like to join the group,
or if you have a friend or colleague who might also be interested in
joining, it's easy.  Ask them to go to the group's wiki page at
http://LCTG.toku.us and follow the simple instructions under "Join the
Email List".  By being a member of the group you'll get reminders of
upcoming meetings and infrequent related messages. No advertising.  The
list is tightly managed.

Membership is free and given that all meetings are using Zoom you only need
to be connected to the Internet to join.  It's ok to join from anywhere you
can get a decent Internet connection, even if you're in orbit around Earth
or on another planet or a moon (if you're connecting from somewhere not on
Earth, we'd like to chat).

*Below are our plans for Upcoming Meetings. For more schedule information,
please refer to https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=lctg_speaker_schedule
<https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=lctg_speaker_schedule>  We will continue
to have an online presentation (almost) every Wednesday until it is prudent
for us to resume meeting in person.*



Feb 3, 2021













*Plastics*

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-plastic-problem (1hr video) Having a
recycle number on them leads people to think they will be recycled and are
perhaps more accepting of then using them. However, many thin plastic
containers such as salad boxes or clear takeout containers are not in
practice recycled. (*John Rudy, Bob Primak, George Burnell*) This might be
more than one session. Plastic bags biodegradability, manufacture,
disposal, recycling.
Bob Beaudoin/Superintendent Environmental Services at Lexington DPW

Feb 10, 2021























*Polaroid*

Recently Peter Albin learned about a Google talk on the history of Polaroid
(Instant:The Story of Polaroid Christopher Bonanos Talks at Google, 2012).
It might make an interesting meeting. The talk is about an hour and we
could augment it with “actual folks” who worked for Polaroid? With 3-4
people worked there (Peter Albin)
Bob Eckert worked in photographic film product development at Polaroid for
23 years (1976 to 1998). It was there that out of necessity he became in
involved in N-dimensional non-linear systems optimization computer tools.
Bob could discuss the approaches that we used and the evolution of the
software tools that were internally developed. Many of these tools and
graphical visualization aids are now available in the commercial pack
Design Expert by StatEase which he used in a final consulting gig at
Polaroid in 2003. [Bob Eckert]
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