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[trochee]

So much going on right now.

I'm coming to some big things with imtboo, regarding knowing that I have (and I am) enough -- and then going beyond "enough" into the creation of new things: love, creation, and play: extra, beyond enough. It is good. It feels unfamiliar, and sometimes that's scary (sad!) but it's good.

Seattle Dorkbot's art show "People Doing Strange Things With Electricity" is opening Saturday night. I've been working hard -- though not as hard as some of the others there. I've been seeing my role as an un-sticker: when someone's art installation isn't working (or hanging from the wall or ceiling, as appropriate), I get to find out who can help them get unstuck -- or unstick them myself, but mostly the former. The art is so neat. I spent a good twenty minutes last night cooling a beer against the electrically-frozen fish [sculpture].

Work continues -- I've just finished a big push on feature generation for a certain machine-translation task. that's great, but I'm taking a breath right now.

Also, this is finals week; I had the last French quiz of the quarter today, but final exam is Saturday morning. Saturday morning will be kinda crazy: 8:30am French exam, 10am tennis class (if I can make it), then off to the Dorkbot space to help prepare for the opening.

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Good luck!

[https://id.mayfirst.org/dkg/ (from livejournal.com)]

Good luck, Jer! that's a ton of stuff to keep in the air at once.

We'll miss you guys here at Phanksgiving, but glad to know you keep on making neat things.

(btw, how does one electrically freeze a fish? is it a peltier cooler?)

(also btw, this is my new ID -- i probably won't be using livejournal's _dkg_ any more now that MFPL has OpenID infrastructure set up.)

Re: Good luck!

[eldan.livejournal.com]

Frozen fish may not be quite what you're thinking of.

Re: Good luck!

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

oo that is so cool that the site showcases the pieces like that !
i am excited to see the show !

Frozen fish

[https://id.mayfirst.org/dkg/ (from livejournal.com)]

Ah, sweet. Thanks for the link. Good ol' refrigerator technology. I'm kind of relieved trochee wasn't cooling his beer against an actual fish, to be honest.

Re: Frozen fish

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

i gotta say, that is the best icon ever.

icon schmicon

[https://id.mayfirst.org/dkg/ (from livejournal.com)]

Thanks! It tends to disturb people when i go out in public like that, though.

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

Yes, we've been missing you in NYC this weekend. I haven't been good for much (sore throat, head cold, cough, yuck), but the company is good, as is the food, what I can taste of it.

Sounds like your life if full of excellent things! Yay!