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NIWeek 2003 Blog - Category: Night-Life

August 14, 2003
Brad comes through (this time)

After the "technical difficulties" at the Copper Tank Tuesday night that landed us with no beer and no food, Brad comes through with a cooler full of Shiner Bock for our dinner at The Salt Lick.

I think Greg may have had a bit to do with it, but at least we didn't go dry tonight. (btw, the food was pretty good too)

The cooler arrives

Thanks to Jim for making the phone call to set this dinner up.

Posted by Ed Dickens at 11:30 PM Permalink
Wednesday Dinner

Greg McCaskell joined me and a few former colleages from Advanced Measurements for a nice dinner at the restaraunt formerly known as Gilligan's. Good food and lotsa nerd talk.

Good food, okay company
Eat! Eat! You're so skinny!
"Close those curtains!" the girls shrieked


As soon as the girls sat down at the table across from us the demanded that the waiter close the curtain as fast as possible. Guess we were pretty scary.

Posted by BradHedstrom at 12:18 PM Permalink
August 13, 2003
Alliance Party

Well, after the Copper Tank Dirk and I decided to head-on over to the Alliance Day appreaciation party. Well, there was a band but of course nobody was dancing. My wife (Merlyn) and our friend Denise decided to get the party started. A room full of engineers is a tuff crowd. In any case, after a few shiner's the whole room was dancing. It's too bad that the band had to wrap-up by 10:30 since that's when the party got really hot... I wonder where Dirk went...

The band
Merlyn and Denise get the party started
Requests
James getting jiggy with my wife?
Stupid bar tricks
Hmmm...
Onlookers
Drummer
"I don't know if I should dance"
"Oh well, if you insist"
Crowds on the dance floor
More dancing
And even more...
Now we're talking a party
The NI bouncer\equipment guy
Happy people
Beer lady
You're never going to get me to dance!
Virtual Instruments
Hey! that's my job!
More dancing
"It's 10:30, do we play another half hour?" "Ya, sure"
Nice Smile
Merlyn and I
"Sorry ladies, we gotta go, party's over"
I wonder why everything's so blurry?

Posted by Michael Aivaliotis at 09:00 AM Permalink
Copper Tank Gathering

Well the gathering at the Copper Tank was off to a bad start. I show up there and find out that the taps don't work and they don't serve food. Thanks a lot Brad! Anyway, we all decided to stay in case more people were coming. In the end we drank a few beers, got to know each other and then we ordered pizza from a delivery place. Yes, they delivered to the restaurant! Funny.

Copper Tank gang
Jim Kring
Brad Hedstrom looking for food in the Yellow Pages
Don Roth
Dirk De Mol making a pass at the waitress
Waitress
Dirk, pizza delivery girl and Chuck Kincade
Chuck and his wife
Brad enjoying his pizza
Dig in!
Brad cashing-in on the whole deal

In the end I had to part ways since I wanted to go over to the Alliance day festivities. But that's another posting...

Posted by Michael Aivaliotis at 08:19 AM Permalink | Comments (1)
August 01, 2003
BBQ Dinner at The Salt Lick

Last year several the OpenG and LAVA members got together for some BBQ, and think that its a tradition worth keeping. This year we will be going to Salt Lick BBQ, where they pile heaps of BBQ'd meat on your plate until you say stop -- literally, since it's all you can eat! So here's the plan...

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Posted by Jim Kring at 01:11 AM Permalink | Comments (6)
July 10, 2003
Tuesday night beer?

I'm sure that all of the Alliance members will be at the Tuesday Alliance night event. However some of us ain't Alliance members so I'm looking for people interested in meeting Tuesday night for a beer. Copper Tank at 7:00?

Posted by BradHedstrom at 05:41 PM Permalink | Comments (7)



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The Compact Vision System is not a Compact FieldPoint module. Like the Compact FieldPoint Controllers, it is a LabVIEW RT Target. With the serial & ethernet ports, you can use the embedded LabVIEW code to talk to FieldPoint or Compact FieldPoint systems, but it does not plug onto a Compact FieldPoint backplane, nor do Compact FieldPoint modules plug into it. Aaron
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A clarification - the State Diagram Editor is released and shipping. It is an add on toolkit and not part of the pro version of LV, nor is it included in any dev suite package. It's pretty cool! There is a booth you can visit at the expo where you can give it a test drive.
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Nicole McGarry said:
I definitely recommend checking out the Friday session on creating Express VIs... the add-on toolkit for creating custom Express VIs released yesterday and is now orderable. The developer of the toolkit will be presenting the session. The toolkit is orderable today and should ship shortly.
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Brad Hedstrom said:
OK, I take the blame. But only in Texas would a brewpub a) not have beer and b) not have food. Hey, at least there was no cover charge!
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This week will actually be the announcement. I don't believe it's shipping yet, but it is orderable. There is also, of course, the Express VI Development Toolkit. It's really very interesting too. They're both on NI's Products Pages now so you can get some info there. Definitely go to the session on it.
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