I spent the last three days in Cambridge, mostly in the Media Lab. There was plenty of free food and wi-fi and friends and beer for me to survive on. It was great meeting all my old lab mates. I really miss the lab. I also spent some time with The Israeli Bald Guys, a small group of, well, Israeli bald guys, mostly chemistry post-docs. There were a few new guys in the group, one of them was telling us a story about how he beat the crap out of a junkie who tried stealing his bike, hence becoming a legend in the corridors of the MIT Police Department.
Finally, I went to a party in the lab, where besides the usual party-hacking (like giving drinks only to guests carrying laser-cut, computer-vision-detectable tokens), some people were projecting on one of the walls “machinning porn”, which means that YouTube videos of 5 axis mills, fiber-glass weaving, looming and lumber splitting machines in actions are being screened on the walls and a bunch of guys are watching and drooling, sometimes saying something like “oh yeah, mill that baby”, or “you like having 5 axis, don’t you?”
Anyway - Boston, like always, was good to me. Tomorrow, however, is the real deal. Tomorrow I start driving.
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