[Chicago] Lightning talks for the win

[rcriii at ramsdells.net]

Looks like I missed a good one, but between late nights lately, weather
and traffic I just couldn't stomach the drive downtown.

Slides, anyone?

Robert

> Hey all,
>
> Just wanted to mention that I enjoyed the meeting last night.
> Someone's (er, sorry I didn't catch your name) record-breaking 5
> minute talk on ICU and Athena was great, Andrew's talk on decorators
> provoked lots of discussion, and it also segued nicely into Ian's
> presentation on making Python look like Ruby, which was hilarious on a
> variety of levels. And the other talks were good too.
>
> I like this concept of competing to see who can give the shortest
> presentation.  It seems like this group is really diverse--aside from
> the n00b/l33t distinction, there's bound to be big differences between
> the interests of web developers, sysadmins, and renegade structural
> engineers who dislike VBA.  So I think that this idea of giving a
> brief show-and-tell-style presentation along the lines of "hey, here's
> this thing that I think is cool, here's the 5-minute gist of it, and
> you can find out more by Googling" works really well.
>
> Thanks to everyone who organized, presented, and attended, and also to
> ThoughtWorks for hosting. Now I want all *my* walls to be whiteboards.
>
> - Atul
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