I was a member about 5 years ago. I also left the club soon, but my experience was pretty different from yours. I never went to the "official" meetings, but I did go to two of the "Mensa youth" (I was around 20, others there seemed to be 25-35) weekend gatherings in the countryside.
The gender ratio was around 60/40 men/women. I don't think anyone even mentioned the term "IQ". It was mostly like a student group outing with people drinking, talking, playing board games, going to sauna (this was in Finland), swimming, flying around in a inflatable boat someone had converted to an ultralight floatplane and such.
Interesting. My experience was a while ago as I said, 1989, so maybe it was just different then as it just seemed like a club for middle-aged socially men really.
Regarding 1. Emacs does have keyboard macros. A bit more involved than just hitting dot, but they do let you compose an arbitrary sequence of operations (including selection) that can be repeated or saved and applied later.
it's the "a bit more involved" that makes it very weak in comparison. The power of the dot command is exactly that it takes one single keystroke to repeat the last action. You don't have to think in advance "I may want to repeat this action, let's add some keystrokes to store this in a macro." You don't have to push a few keys to repeat the action, just one single key.
What kind of workflow do you mean? Simply taking a screenshot and inserting a link to it would be pretty easy, at least in Emacs
;; There probably are better solutions already
;; available somewhere.
(defun org-insert-screenshot (filename)
(interactive "sFilename: ")
(let ((filename (concat filename ".png")))
;; import is from ImageMagick, change to whatever you like to use
(call-process "import" nil nil nil filename)
(insert (format "[[file:%s]]" filename))
(org-display-inline-images)))
All joking aside, it is certainly a downside to the job I do, but she understands. "Upset" is kind of a hyperbolic word to use, she fully supports the work I do as it affords us a lot of freedoms we might not have otherwise. I can't say how often we've turned a business trip into a vacation just by switching the credit card on file with the hotel to my personal card, or left for vacation in the middle of the work day as long as I bring my phone and take my calls from the passenger seat. Not to mention she doesn't have to work full time, so she can pursue her own dreams and hobbies.
Not that any of that matters to you, I just didn't want anyone thinking I was being selfish or insensitive to my wife's feelings.
I'm not familiar with the details of Norway, but the Nordic countries have so called "everyman's rights" which among other things say that owners of forests can't restrict people from roaming in their (uncultivated) land. Building a fence around your forest would most likely not be allowed.
Bad for the wolves. But I think the wolves can at least be sold to the keepers of exotic animals or even sent to other countries which might be interested.
We need an international market (legal) for exotic animals.
