[UFO Chicago] I give you this file in order to have your advise (meeting announcement)

[Jordan Bettis]

Well I've received nothing but praise for the "meetings every two weeks"
proposal, so:
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YES THIS THURSDAY (tonight) AT VICTORIA'S RESTAURANT IN THE 39TH WARD OF
CHICAGO ILLINOIS THERE WILL BE A VERY SPECIAL EDITION OF
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in which we will inaugurate our NEW MEETING TIME of EVERY OTHER THURSDAY!
Come be entertained! Come be offended! Come shock, amaze, and HORRIFY
patrons of Victoria's who only visit on ODD THURSDAYS! BE THERE OR BE
SQUARE (or if you're Jessie, be BOTH!)

THERE WILL BE Heated arguments about arguments about MUNDANE topics!
THERE WILL BE a discussion of this announcement's merits as a TROLL!
An old fashioned banana split WILL BE CONSUMED!
A laptop MAY BE REPAIRED!
Inappropriate and unfunny comments MAY BE COMBINED with annoying LAUGHTER!

AND VICTORIA'S WILL CLOSE EARLY!

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

Special guest star evil mastermind NEIL ORMIS WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE VIA
HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTION FROM HIS HEAVILY FORTIFIED LAIR IN SUBURBAN DES
PLANES!

Watch him engage in a BATTLE OF WITS with THE FORCES OF GOOD in which he
will use such DIABOLICAL TACTICS as FAULTY LOGIC, AD HOMINEMS, NON
SEQUITURS  AND RAISING ONE'S VOICE to CRUSH THE OPPOSITION!

THIS IS A ONCE EVERY TWO WEEK OPPORTUNITY THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS!

In addition, since the weather is slated to be good, there will likely be
a post meeting so come prepared with camping equipment and survival gear.

I INTENDED to write a script that will NOTIFY OF THE NEXT MEETING TIME but
unfortunately I was PREVENTED FROM DOING SO LAST NIGHT on account of the
fact that I FELL ASLEEP. As an evil plot by the STATE OF ILLINOIS and
their blasted FIREWALL prevents me from accessing a UNIX MACHINE I am
forced to substitute this PSEUDO-CODE:

origin = the time_t of last-week's meeting.
offset = 1209600 # The number of seconds in six weeks
ctime = the time_t as of now.
while origin <= ctime {
      origin += offset
}
echo -no_newline "The next meeting will be on: "
date -print_this_time origin
echo -no_newline "The meeting after that will be on: "
date -print_this_time origin + offset

Daylight savings time may screw that up by an hour, so it may need to be
intelligent! A possible workaround would be to only print the date in UTC.

-- 
Jordan Bettis -- Chicago Il.
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