3D printing has come a long way from the utter toys of a few years ago: many more textures and materials, metals, 3D scanners for reverse-engineering.
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Waiting for the Subway
the difference between your boring town and nyc
Cat Jazz
new kinds of music: cat jazz, foreclosed house
book titles: spooky salad, giving up with style
exhibitions: history is written by the winners, but art history is written by losers
baby names: quinoa, keepsake
ice on the hudson & east river
Building Cyborgs
In 2006, DARPA studied cockroaches as a robotics platform. They soon learned that cockroaches have a mind of their own, and will ignore implanted directions (via electrical stimuli) after ~30min. this makes them unsuitable for spy missions, but it triggered interest in the neurobiology community as a new model organism.
Cockroaches have a simple body plan, and have their processing spread around the body. With some basic surgery, a cockroach can be turned into a robot by attaching the antenna to current, you can make a cockroach go left/right
The first workshop for building your own cyborg was this weekend. my specimen didn’t pass final QC because i didn’t secure the antenna cables securely enough, and the cockroach disconnected 😦 
Sandy on Ellis island
Beer & cheese cave
In times of persecution, beer nerds throughout the ages hid in caves. So it was this weekend
Staten Island Circumnavigation
a visit to the ass end of staten island, with the rich aroma you’d expect, a ship graveyard, entering nyc under the verrazano bridge, yachts, etc
Gowanus Canal Exploration
canoeing on the dirtiest waterway in the us. it will take $500M and 10 years to clean it up
i expect super powers to kick in any day now from the exposure.
Great Hall
The Great Hall will reopen soon. an amazing sight.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 