Rubber ducky, you're the one!

A fun and wacky valentines day on Stickmen where we had some serenading, hearts, and tasty goodness. The last video is of the hall at the housemaster's studybreak. Its been a giggle of a term. The stickmen also rocked the house at the recent Cookie bakeoff. We submitted 5 entries (including a GRT entry), and they would have all won if we had enough prizes for them. Jim's GRT entry didn't get to be voted on, but I thought it was the best one (and I'm not biased at all!). Pix of the Cookie Bakeoff TBA. Congratulations to the power bakers Sarah and Kathy for their award-winning entries of Spagetti Cookies and the Great Dome Hack. We had the most innovative hall, with the spirit of Colin Cross revived in cookie form by Chris's "Colin Cookies"-- a hall secret recipe, and also the spirit of 3D creation from Kelly, which had people wondering how she made it!

Key West pics finally uploaded

I finally put up the pix from 2 summers ago of our drive to the Keys:Key west adventure. There were some very beautiful parts, like the sunsets, the super rainy downpour, and the waterspouts along the Seven Mile Bridge. We visited that Key Lime Pie factory, and ate some goodies, saw some "funny people" at the "ladies night" on the main drag, and enjoyed getting our tans. The drive was long, but it was kind of fun-- only 4 hours from Miami with cruise control. One nice part was hanging out with Jim and my parents, and enjoying the lighthouse views at the southernmost tip of the US. We went all the way to Mile 0 of I-95, the beginning of that beast of a road that makes its way all the way up to Boston! I found that my street is in the center of town, and we even saw a pirate store! Arrgh!

See Duff talk at Google!

My friend, physicist/scientist/inventor/programmer, Mike Duff, will be giving a talk at google today. Hope those of you in Mountain view can go. Sounsd like he'll be talking about internet security at SRI, one of the coolest innovation companies around.

Congratulations Robbin!

A big kudos to my friend and colleague, Robbin Chapman, for her recent appointment to diversity recruiting in the MIT School of Architecture Planning. She's so positive and energetic, I think that she will make a big impact in the admissions process for our department.

One See in Four Stages, by Mat Laibowitz

Hey folks, this looks like a cool installation by Mat Laibowitz at EXIT ART. If you are in NYC, this might be a visual experience that changes the way you think about light, space, and time.

Marty Johns sent me Bubbles

Bubbles
Watch it become.
Thanks Marty! That's very nice of you. Makes me want to go to the circus.

Happy Chinese New year, happy valentine's day!

This is going to be an awesome year! Its going to be terrific, and I'll get to see my friends a lot more this year! I celebrated in style, with dim sum and dinner, with some good friends and my awesome hall. So this year, I know it will be easier to see my friends than in previous years. :) I might have good opportunity to fly to your neighborhoods, friends who are afar (SF, Dallas, Miami, NYC)!
I'll try to blog more this year, that way you can have constant updates! For those of you on RSS readers, you'll know the scoop from the source.
This is from my cousins in China:


As the weather would have it, I was snowed in on Valentines Day and ended up not flying to my conference in Baton Rouge. So I spent the day *working* next to my handsome man, and also hung out with my favorite students! It seems those close to me will also be close to me next year. Yay yay yay!

Congratulations Ian, my Guy101.

Congratulations to Ian for winning a BAFTA. You know you rock. That was the best winner's walk I've seen. Nice bling too! xxoxoxo! Watch him snag the prize!
Here's 2 my favorite Guy 101! *kiss* *kiss* snootchy bootches. *bye cutie*

Congratulations to Jonah

Lucky for me, I know lots of winners! Congrats to Jonah on winning for his entry Alerting Infrastructure, the OpenCall for Labcyberscpaces!

Happy Birthday Virginia!

We went to Amelia's Kitchen, in cozy Teal Square. I had pesto, everyone else had yummy pasta! yum yum! happy birthday Virginia, what a year!! hope that next year is even better!

Happy Turkey Day,Stickmen!

Kudos to my hall for making mondo food for Sunday's Thanksgiving feast. Click here of pictures of kevin Making Turducken. It was way cool, and we are way full.

Yummy!

Congratulations and good work to the students who entered the East campus Apple Bakeoff this year. There were many creative and colorful dishes, and some interesting combinations (e.g. thugfest brew). These shots of the food are absolutely stunning. You should have tasted them!

Congrats to Shwang and Reyna!

Just got email today from Shwang and Reyna that they're back from their Hawaiian honeymoon adventure. Their adventures were spectacular, from snorkeling to helicoptering around the island, and soaking up tons of fun and sun. They even got to experience a mild earthquake! We're glad you guys shared your pictures, looks like an amazing time!

nice weekend, cake, ice cream and more!

This was a nice long weekend. We went Apple Picking, got a lot of apples. Had some bday cake and lots of ice cream! Talked to Ben and my folks. It was good weather, and have a lot more energy than last week. Thanks for all the well wishes everyone! My hall is the bomb,yo, I got a rainbow color cake with all the miami pastel colors (thanks Sarah!). Makes me feel at home, surrounded by some pretty flowers! Its been a nice day, week, year! To many more!

Parents wanted a new USB cable  and phone case

Haymarket shopping experience

Here you see Maya buying groceries, photo taken by Peter.
For class, we recently did a study of shopping as it has become more mechanized. We went to the olde-fashioned Haymarket and compared the higher-tech experience to Shopping at Shaws. It was somewhat of a surprise how positive the shopping experience at Haymarket was, compared to shopping at Shaws. At Haymarket, the vendors were very friendly, while at Shaws, they were merely functional. It is interesting that the separation of job functions, and optimization of efficiency in the shopping process has also resulted in shopping being more task oriented in finding and aggregating, vs. negotiation and persuasion.
Check out my songs on the haymarket and shaws experience, made from sampled sounds by Sara and Peter.

Feldmeier on Jesus the Ride

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Its very rare that I see pictures like this. Apparently one of the best photos from EC Rush this year.

Jonah's interview

Jonah was recently Interviewed by a media art site.

ANGEBOT on Sale

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Originally uploaded by a7emprl.

According to JimB, my robot is on sale. Just think, for 4.90, you can get 15 minutes with ANGEBOT. Apparently, its got 8 kabinens. It might be your only chance to experience what its like to be in her awesome company. L0LZ!

Anj at Penn State DIS2006

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Originally uploaded by Indignant Chiuhuahua.

This is a picture taken by Wendy, of me at lunch with people at DIS2006. You can't tell, but outside, it is raining cats and dogs. Luckily the Vietnamese Pho was very warm and filling.

chinatown run

Today we went to Chinatown and had dim sum. It was rainy, but the dimsum was good. As always, I was able to get my coconut jello fix, and jim got his cha siu bao fix. Our hall residents came along, and it was nice to see V & R, Rebs, and Juana and Rob again. Next time we go though, I'll have to organize it later-- people have trouble waking up before noon. :) Although, the good stuff is usually gone and not as fresh later in the day. Tomorrow is a holiday, and hopefully we'll have a good day for the ec bbq.