Turns out demolition derbies are awesome.
I had never seen a demolition derby before. They are dangerous, and they pollute, but they are awesome. People lavishly decorate giant 70's and 80's cars, and then each participant smashes his car into other people's cars, until either (a) his car can't move or (b) no one else's car can move. In the first minute of the event we saw a car get flipped over. Later on two cars caught fire. (Everyone was fine!) I know, this is all immature, but I've never had a chance to grow out of it because I've never seen one before.
It was a great weekend overall. cavedwellers and I got to try out an OLPC! I was amazed when holding it that you could really feel just how much work has gone into it. Every square inch has been painstakingly designed, and nothing has been taken for granted. I don't know though... all that work feel like putting a lot of eggs in one basket, and the whole thing still feels like a Hail Mary pass. I'm satisfied with the way those analogies combined, are you?
Other highlights from this weekend include:
- MIT museum (where we stumbled onto the OLPC)
- Three-county fair (in Northampton, where we saw the derby)
- Petting a llama (soft)
- Improv ("My mother was the first female Rosa Parks!")
- Early Steven King book-on-tape ("No, don't go into the basement! Nooo, not the sub-basement!")
This has been a great summer in a lot of ways, too, sometime I should catch up and write about that...
It was a great weekend overall. cavedwellers and I got to try out an OLPC! I was amazed when holding it that you could really feel just how much work has gone into it. Every square inch has been painstakingly designed, and nothing has been taken for granted. I don't know though... all that work feel like putting a lot of eggs in one basket, and the whole thing still feels like a Hail Mary pass. I'm satisfied with the way those analogies combined, are you?
Other highlights from this weekend include:
- MIT museum (where we stumbled onto the OLPC)
- Three-county fair (in Northampton, where we saw the derby)
- Petting a llama (soft)
- Improv ("My mother was the first female Rosa Parks!")
- Early Steven King book-on-tape ("No, don't go into the basement! Nooo, not the sub-basement!")
This has been a great summer in a lot of ways, too, sometime I should catch up and write about that...