“Two informaticians walk into a bar …”

Winners

Chair and President’s Choice (State of Assn)

…and place the same order that two other informaticians ordered in the 1970s.
@ekrub Burke Mamlin

…One orders a drink. The other complains he suffers from UMLS CUI C0001973 and shouldn't order. @danhousman Dan Housman

…the bouncer says, “What’s the password.” One says, “Password?” The bouncer lets them in. @Ross Martin Ross Martin

Most Prolific Award

@ekrub Burke Mamlin

Most Technically Appropriate (Super Geek) Award

(∃x)(∃y)[(Informaticianx & Informaticiany) & x≠y & (z)(Informaticianz →[z=x ∨ z=y]) & walkIn2(x,bar) & walkIn2(y,bar)] @EHRworkflow Charles Webster

Best Collaboration Award

$var: Informatician() $var2: Informatician(this != $var) Bar(occupant == $var, occupant == $var2 ) @techydoc (First author) Steven Waldren
@EHRworkflow (collaborator) and Charles Webster

Biggest Groan Award

…barkeep says, "let me guess, you 2 want something GUI" @ITNurseLLC Anita Spanos

“You know you’ve been here long enough …”

… and SCAMC is born. @ekrub Burke Mamlin

“Don’t Quit Your Day Job” Award

…redundantly and walk out fully @ekrub normalized. Two informaticians walk into a bar. We’d use their names, but it’s PHI. @ekrub Burke Mamlin

Trademark Infringement Award

They order Appletinis. It was a Genius Bar. @EHRworkflow Charles Webster

AMIA Spirit Award

…and — ten years later — 10,000 informaticians walk out. @ekrub Burke Mamlin

Top Ten Vote Getter

By one vote because @firas figured out the Joke Identifer Hashtag user interface
2 informaticians walk into a bar: here's an ontology representing that process and here's a system for it's automatic capture @firas #AMIA2012_J02

Caption Contest

#AMIA2012

All entries submitted Nov 3-5 during the AMIA 2012 annual symposium. Tweet and email entries accepted via @AMIAinformatics and krista@amia.org.

Top Ten entries selected by #AMIA2012 Ad Hoc Jokster Blue Ribbon Panel

Titus Schleyer, @titusschleyer
Paul Fu, Jr. , @puhfu
Miguel Torres –Urquidy @mhtunet

Guidelines

Forcibly volunteered
No non-human subjects were harmed
Very strict and formal random process
Non-rule complying entries were rejected (no morticians, cannibals or binary code)
Rigorous selection process despite being underfunded
All entries rated according to NIH funding rating scheme (1,2,3 low, medium, and high)
No inter-rater reliability

Voting

7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m., November 7
One Tweet per person
Tweet must include Joke Identifer hashtag
Winners and Honorary Awards announced at Closing Session, November 7, 12:15 – 1:30 p.m. International Ballroom South and posted to AMIA.org

#AMIA2012 “Two informaticians walk into a bar…”
Top Ten

Top Ten Vote!

by tweet
by email to krista@amia.org

Nine Best of #AMIA2012 Awards also given at Closing Session including

Best Collaboration
Most Technically Appropriate
Don’t-Quit-Your-Day-Job

Non-identified

“Two informaticists walk into a bar…”

The first orders gin. The second documents it and asks the bartender if the bar has an irb. #AMIA2012_J01

here's an ontology representing that process and here's a system for it's automatic capture. #AMIA2012_J02

and twenty walk out. #AMIA2012_J03

bar and end up arguing over the check digit. #AMIA2012_J04

leading to an adverse drinking event. #AMIA2012_J05

but, thanks to iOS 6 maps, it was the wrong bar. #AMIA2012_J06

outside of Hilton Chicago and re-discover what it’s like to have a working wireless connection. ‏#AMIA2012_J07

to field test a framework to discuss "two Informaticians walked into a bar..." #AMIA2012_J08

redundantly and walk out fully normalized. #AMIA2012_J09

when they run out of funding. #AMIA2012_J10

All Submissions

All entries in no order

2 inf walk into a bar. But they can't order drinks until they confirm the computable semantic interoperability with the bartender @danhouseman
2 inf walk into a bar. 1 orders a drink. The other asks if there are any grants available to pay the tab. @danhouseman
two informaticists walk into a bar. The first orders a 007 and gets a martini sns. The second orders an ICD9-ICD10 conversion. @danhouseman
two informaticists walk into a bar. One orders a drink. The other complains he suffers from UMLS CUI C0001973 and shouldn't order. @danhouseman
two informaticists walk into a bar. The first orders gin. The second documents it and asks the bartender if the bar has an irb. @danhouseman
two informatists walk into a bar... 1 hurts his head and one orders a drink (semiotics) @danhouseman
Two informaticians walk into a bar graph @ITNurseLLC
2 informaticians walk into bar, just to laugh at the drunks trying to say "what's an inform uh- informutisshhun"? ITNurseLLC
2 Informaticians walk into a bar, barkeep says, "let me guess, you 2 want something GUI" @ITNurseLLC
2 informaticians walk into a bar: here's an ontology representing that process and here's a system for it's automatic capture @firas
Two informaticians walk into a bar. Bartender asks if both wanna beer. 1st informatician: I don't know. 2nd: Yes! @EHRworkflow
Two informaticians walk into a bar. They order Appletinis. It was a Genius Bar. @EHRworkflow
Two informaticians walk into a bar & one says 'I feel like we've done this before, except it just keeps getting weirder & weirder" @EHRworkflow
10 informaticians walk into a bar. 1 informatician walks out. How many informaticians are left? One. @EHRworkflow
Two cannibal informaticians walk into a bar, eating a clown. One says to the other, "Does this taste funny to you?" @HITshrink
2 informaticians walk into a bar. The bouncer says, "What's the password." One says, "Password?" The bouncer lets them in. @RossMartin
Two informaticians walk in to a foobar. [If you get this joke, you are a informatician's informatician.] @RossMartin
2 informaticians walk into a bar. A pretty girl smiles at them but they don't notice because they are looking at their shoes. @brewhitz
Two informaticians flock into a bar. One says "Is it 'flock of informaticians' or our collective noun generator buggy?" @EHRworkflow
Two morticians walk into a bar. One says "Oops, wrong conference?" @EHRworkflow
Two informaticians walk into a jar. One says "We're in a pickle now!" @EHRworkflow
2 inf walk into a bar. Bartender says "thank goodness you're here- the computer we use for orders and billing just crashed." @jessiet1023
Two informaticists walk into a genius bar and order an iVodka @JohnSharp
Two informaticists walk into a vertical bar @ekrub
Two informaticists walk into a 429885007. #AMIA2012p://maml.in/snomed-bar @ekrub
Two informaticists walk into a bar asking for free beer… but willing to pay for text. ‏@ekrub #AMIA2012
Two informaticians walk into a BARhttp://t.co/8kcfiBQt but were turned off by the BARtender complaining about alert fatigue. @EHRworkflow
Two informaticists walk into a bar and SCAMC is born. @ekrub
Two informaticists walk into a bar and — three years later — they’re nearly ready to order their drinks. @ekrub
Two informaticists walk into a bar and twenty walk out. @ekrub
2 informaticians walk into a bar. The #amia2012 first says, I would like to do a comparative analysis to select the appropriate beverage @brewhitz
Two informaticians walk into a bar, they each order a drink, and an alert pops up stating their drinks interact. @ekrub
2 informaticians walk into a bar & the 1st one says "2 informaticians walk into a bar & the 1st one says "2 informaticians walk... @EHRworkforce #AMIA2012
two informaticists walk into a bar. 1 tells the bartender I'd like to order a double shot of vodka & put it on the other guy's tab the other didn't know and was miffed. He tells the bartender 305.0 and walks out. the bartender says 'huh'? Groaning the first one says 'he's using the icd 9 billing code for binge drinking' @rupatel
Two informaticians walk into a bar...ouch! @mhealthnurse
Two informaticians walk into a bar and — ten years later — 10,000 informaticians walk out. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar and order two Beer’s criteria. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar and place the same order that two other informaticians ordered in the 1970s ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar and drink enough to become thoroughly post-coordinated. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar and end up arguing over the check digit. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar. The bill comes to $3 trillion. @ekrub
Two informaticians try to walk into a bar for some source… but it's closed. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a basic bistro for some small talk. The one with mumps orders java with a lisp & thinks it's groovy. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar, but, thanks to iOS 6 maps, it was the wrong bar. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar… “You smell soiled & have food on your face. Are you ok?” The reply: “I’ve gone paperless.” @ekrub
2 infrmatcs walk into a bar. one escorted out by a bouncer, other says, he was doing just doing workflow and usability observation! @_star_anise_
Two informaticians walk into a bar, leading to an adverse drinking event. @ekrub Two informaticians walk into a bar for some natural libation processing. @ekrub
Two informaticians attempt to walk into a bar but can't reach agreement on what definition of 'bar' to use. @SafeHealthIT
Two informaticians walk into bar... in Chicago, because it's #AMIA2012 @firas
An Informatician, a biker and a priest walk into a bar, and barman@ekrub says "What is this, a joke? ‏@karlwbrown
2 informaticians walk into a bar: here's an ontology representing that process and here's a system for it's automatic capture @firas
Two informaticians walk into an bar 2 conduct #bigdataamounts of evidence-based outcome research on what exactly causes hangovers @EHRworkflow
Two informaticians walk into an car (used to be owned by Fred Flintstone) @EHRworkflow
A computer scientist & a physician walk into a bar at their intersection. You know who walks out. @EHRworkflow #AMIA2012
2 informaticians walk into an isobar & have different drinks of the same weight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobar_(nuclide) …(chemistry majors out there?) @EHRworkflow
Two informaticians walk into a bar (reserved that evening by#AMIA2012 for a reception) but can't find the punch line. @EHRworkflow
2 informaticians walk into a bar but can't figure out how 2 order drinks, bartender is slow as molasses & gets their orders wrong. @EHRworkflow #AMIA2012
A health & a medical informatician walk into a bar. The former drinks moderately on a full stomach alternating w/glasses of water. @EHRworkflow #AMIA2012
2 open source informaticians walk into bar looking for proverbial free beer. Disappointed to find it's just a bunch of free speech @EHRworkflow
Two informaticians walk into a bar and one says the other “The longer we’re here together the more I’m starting to believe in this interoperability thing.” John McGreevy via email
Two informaticians walk into a bar and tell a joke about two informaticians walking into a bar. (recursive humor) @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a mediastinal abscess. (mapping humor) @ekrub
Agile humor "2 informaticians" "2 informaticians walk" "2 informaticians walk into a bar: OUCH!" @ekrub
2 informaticians created a corpus of "2 informaticians walked in2 a bar…" jokes 2 learn language models 2 decide best joke @EHRworkflow • class Informatician(): def drink(self, beer): class Bar(): def walkinto(Informatician one, Informatician two): @whereits
Two informaticians walk into a bar and start singing O Danny Boy. (SCAMC humor… can you name the two singers?) @ekrub
Two informaticians walk two informaticians walk into a bar into a bar. (documentation cut & paste humor) @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar and by their 2nd drink they have a list of 100 ways to improve the bar’s workflow & efficiency @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar & start singing @ODannyBoy(Usability humor, can U name UX expert?) @EHRworkflow
Two informaticians walk into a bar outside of Hilton Chicago and re-discover what it’s like to have a working wireless connection. ‏@ekrub
two Informaticians walked into a bar to field test a framework to discuss "two Informaticians walked into a bar..." #AMIA2012
2 inf walk into a bar, they ponder the menu, and start designing BBI/BDI rules, alerts, and order sets.@epan47 #AMIA2012
two Informaticians walked into a bar to field test a framework to discuss "two Informaticians walked into a bar..."@epan47
2 informaticists walk into bar 1orders shot w/1part vodka,1part triple sec, &1part S/S mix Other a kamikaze Which more coordinated? @techydoc
(∃x)(∃y)[(Informaticianx & Informaticiany) & x≠y & (z)(Informaticianz →[z=x ∨ z=y])] & walkIn2(x,bar) & walkIn2(y,bar)@EHRworkflow
Two informaticians walk into a bar redundantly and walk out fully normalized. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar when they run out of funding. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar and it’s not funny. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar collaboratively. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar, leading the way for others. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar redundantly and walk out fully @ekrub normalized.
Two informaticians walk into a bar. We’d use their names, but it’s PHI. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar after voting. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar and freak out because they have less than 10 minutes to think of something funny. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar and the _real_ innovation begins. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar… why are you picturing two men? @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar when they run out of funding. @ekrub
Two informaticians walk into a bar in a standard way. @ekrub
"Two informaticians walk into a b BZZZZZZZZ < hey, this one as gonna be the best, I swear it was inspiringly funny @EHRworkflow
$var: Informatician() $var2: Informatician(this != $var) Bar(occupant == $var, occupant == $var2 ) @techydoc (First author)@EHRworkflow (collaborator)
Two informaticians walk into a bar and it’s not funny. @ekrub