I just learned by way of the blogs that when I was showing Diane around the Colony right after I arrived I showed her my flame thrower.. an she said.. ‘why do you need a flamethrower’. I  said :..Oh.. Honey, you gotta have a flamethrower !”..   What other circumstances would have allowed me to say that ?!

   I can’t believe that the show will be over in 2 episodes .. it’s been so much fun. I can’t go anywhere without bumping into soemone who recognizes me from the show.. it’s weird and fun…   I love talking about the show.. but it’s also strange to have these lopsided relationships.. folks know me.. and I don’t know them (yet)..
It’s an interesting challenge to balance my public extrovert and private introvert.. In two weeks it will all start to fad.. which will be both sad and a relief..

Not too much to report for the day.. I worked a long hard day.. but it was pretty satisfying.. After work Diane and I dropped gabe and his friends off at dinner then headed downtown for the ‘Art Hop’ One of our first and only stops was at the Champlain College exhibit. The Emerging Media Center folks were all there/ It’s always wonderful to see teh,. I even got to see some stuff I worked on.. here’s Awesome (her names really Alison.. but I always call her Awesome) demonstrating the breathing game I helped create. It’s a prototype driving game that is controlled by a spirometer.. a device for measuring breath flow and lung capacity. I wrote the low level C++ code that interfaces the spirometer to the flash environment for the game.  The idea is to make the breathing exercises that kids with Cystic Fibrosis  have to do more fun. The kids breathing control the cars speed and steering. It’s actually really fun and challengeing to use    I was so happy and proud to see the whole game working.  These Champlain kids are so clever !

They also had some slide shows of some work I’d done at the Governors Institute  summer camp. Here’s a kid hooked up to the Van De Graaf generator.

They had a bunch of other artwork around. including this piece.. which is a copy of a stature that keeps following me around (Chris W has one, Linda P’ has one.. then this one.. what’s it mean ? )

This guy had a home built theremin.

This guy had robots made out of clay which was deigned to look like rusted metal.

We hadn’t gotten too far into the art hop when Gabe called. There were no movies that they could get into that they wanted to see.. We left the art hop, picked them uo and took them home. It’s Kristenn’s birthday (yes.. 9/11 !) .. so we had a small part for her. I gave her a pack of pink fake mustaches..,.. every girl should have one.

OK.. I’m falling asleep.. time to post and go to bed.. .
Nite all.. Nite Sam !
-me