Started the day with a nice ski in the beautiful snow with my beautiful wife.  

The next big thing of the day was our event at Generator. We were giving a talk/film viewing/ panel discussion and fiery dance party as part of the Generator’s Reckless Ideas  program. I’ve been so looking forward to this. Two of my big passions intersecting.. ( I was one of the founders of Generator.. ) We got there about 4 to help set up..    It was so great having Max in town for this event. He was instrumental to the way we did the lights and helped us debug generator issues from across the country !

Soon we had a crowd ! at 6:30 Meg introduced us and Duane got up and started things off. He had a few comments on ‘why fluufy’ (a question that is very often asked 🙂 .. Then we played the “Making of Fluffy” movie that Duanes son Duane III had made .. I had only seen it once.. it was a really good capture of all that went in to the early and late parts of making fluffy. Duane III got married that year.. so there’s not much in there about either the lights or the fire systems.. but the rest of the stuff is covered very nicely. Have a look !

After the panel discussion we all went outside and sparked up Fluffy..  We had a small crowd that stayed steady through the night. Max DJ’ed the entire night with was FANTASTIC !!!.. 

Super fun night.. ! Glad to share fluffy with so many others. It was always our intent to be able to roll fluffy out to more events than burning man.. and it’s happening !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Max is in town for the eclipse.. and we marked his arrival with almost a foot of snow !   Max and Diane got in a short ski.. Tonight we went out to A Single Pebble  one of our favorite restaurants with Tim, Jen,. Nate and Hannah. It was de-lish !

We all split one dessert .. and got a candle on it for a late birthday celebration for DIane !

Happy birthday my love !

Nite all, nite sam
-me

Super excited about a project I’m h helping with at work.  I’ve been learning about carbon composites. I’ve used carbon fiber before, but never learned how to make parts out of it. It’s amazing stuff.. its crazy that something that makes up most animal, and plant matter on the planet,  part of our atmosphere, diamonds, pencil leads,  and smoke can be woven into a material that’s stronger and lighter than aluminum or steel … We’re hiring people  to help us assemble the carbon fiber components of our planes. if you or any of your freinds know about carbon fiber assembly and testing.. please let me know ! 

Nite all, nite sam

-me

I vent talked about it here yet, but our good friend Aaron (aka Rebar) has left the company . We’ve all been missing him .. he’s such a wonderful person. Its really not the same without him .. I’m happy we’ll still get to hang out often as part of Fluffy and other stuff..
Gonna be interesting to see what he does next !

Nite all, nite sam

-me