From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Summer challenge
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:27:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y73kidnw.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A44135C-FC7A-4D2C-AA74-A68B5F45BA1B@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Tue\, 29 Jul 2008 12\:59\:44 -0700")
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> ever heard of the IG Nobel prize [1] of the Journal of Improbable
> Research?
No I've never hard of it... well now I have :)
> The annual awards meeting is always great to watch.
>
> One of the things they do is that each speaker has to give
> a 24/7 lecture on their subject. This means, they have to give
> a complete technical description of their work in 24 words (may be
> totaly crypic), and then a 7 word explanation that is more or
> less understandable for the public, and it may be either
> tongue in cheek or serious. I find it a great exercise to
> try to make these, over whatever subject.
>
> Lets have a challenge for the best 24/7 lecture about org-mode
> over the summer. I am particular interested in good 7 word
> summaries, because these are the most fun.
Here's my 7 word attempt:
Organize and track everything in plain text.
-Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-29 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 19:59 Summer challenge Carsten Dominik
2008-07-29 21:27 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2008-07-31 1:31 ` Eddward DeVilla
2008-07-31 2:16 ` Parker, Matthew
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-02 17:43 Kene Meniru
2008-08-02 20:12 ` Russell Adams
2008-08-02 20:33 ` Dmitry Dzhus
2008-11-09 8:23 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-11-09 10:20 ` Russell Adams
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