May 6th, 2008
This weekend I went to Maker Faire and spent much of Saturday and Sunday working in the Wikimedia Booth, talking to random people about Wikipedia and passing out swag (and flyers about my book!).
It was pretty awesome.
Maker Faire itself was also pretty great, full of robots and crafts and robots that spit fire (a lot of it was stuff up from Burning Man) and awesome art cars (my favorite was the cupcake that you could scoot around in). We wandered around late on Saturday after closing up the booth, Jay and I, eating funnel cakes and watching the steampunk crowd out in full regalia, with steampowered vehicles and a fire-shooting cocktail bar.*
Late on Saturday night I went to the airport and got my dear friend Sj who was in town for a) makerfaire, b) seeing friends, c) ???, d) profit! We went back to Davis, slept, had a lovely morning during which my house was briefly full of little green computers, then went back to San Mateo and did it all over again.
That evening involved dinner, trips to SF, arguments over book appendices; roughly what one might expect. I drove just over 400 miles this weekend, fortunately all without incident, though I could barely keep my eyes open on the way home. I was sadly a little sick and tense; somehow I managed to hurt my back, and after all that driving I could barely walk without some pretty intense pain. I went in for emergency chiropractic yesterday, and it seems to be getting slowly better. I was probably a bit crankier than I might have otherwise been because of that, though.**
Tomorrow, an all-day trip to Irvine for work stuff and to visit the lovely![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
blogdrassil. Yay!
Now, am planning Recent Changes Camp 2008. RCC will be next weekend at Socialtext in Palo Alto. I am in charge of food. Yay, catering 5 meals for 100 people on 6 days notice! Have I ever mentioned that life is awesome?***
* I think steampunk is pretty much the sexiest thing ever. My friend from the east coast who was also at the show had never seen any steampunkers 'live' in cosplay before, though. Is it really so localized? I did not realize this was a west-coast thing; or perhaps there are fewer people out in public on the east coast. At any rate, if you too want to experience such things, come to the opening of the newly working! with printer! Difference Engine at the Computer History Museum next weekend.
** Also, because OH MY GOD THE TRAFFIC. I sat in traffic for close to two hours on the 101 on Saturday. Yikes! I left some pretty ridiculous messages for sj: "everything is awful! are you really coming? Can I bail on this traffic and go home now? Sob!" Seriously, people were flipping each other off, cutting each other off, honking, throwing things (!) -- another hour and there would have been riots.
*** Number of times the word "awesome" is used in this post: 3. Number of times all these activities (except for the traffic) deserve: 5,000,000.
It was pretty awesome.
Maker Faire itself was also pretty great, full of robots and crafts and robots that spit fire (a lot of it was stuff up from Burning Man) and awesome art cars (my favorite was the cupcake that you could scoot around in). We wandered around late on Saturday after closing up the booth, Jay and I, eating funnel cakes and watching the steampunk crowd out in full regalia, with steampowered vehicles and a fire-shooting cocktail bar.*
Late on Saturday night I went to the airport and got my dear friend Sj who was in town for a) makerfaire, b) seeing friends, c) ???, d) profit! We went back to Davis, slept, had a lovely morning during which my house was briefly full of little green computers, then went back to San Mateo and did it all over again.
That evening involved dinner, trips to SF, arguments over book appendices; roughly what one might expect. I drove just over 400 miles this weekend, fortunately all without incident, though I could barely keep my eyes open on the way home. I was sadly a little sick and tense; somehow I managed to hurt my back, and after all that driving I could barely walk without some pretty intense pain. I went in for emergency chiropractic yesterday, and it seems to be getting slowly better. I was probably a bit crankier than I might have otherwise been because of that, though.**
Tomorrow, an all-day trip to Irvine for work stuff and to visit the lovely
blogdrassil. Yay! Now, am planning Recent Changes Camp 2008. RCC will be next weekend at Socialtext in Palo Alto. I am in charge of food. Yay, catering 5 meals for 100 people on 6 days notice! Have I ever mentioned that life is awesome?***
* I think steampunk is pretty much the sexiest thing ever. My friend from the east coast who was also at the show had never seen any steampunkers 'live' in cosplay before, though. Is it really so localized? I did not realize this was a west-coast thing; or perhaps there are fewer people out in public on the east coast. At any rate, if you too want to experience such things, come to the opening of the newly working! with printer! Difference Engine at the Computer History Museum next weekend.
** Also, because OH MY GOD THE TRAFFIC. I sat in traffic for close to two hours on the 101 on Saturday. Yikes! I left some pretty ridiculous messages for sj: "everything is awful! are you really coming? Can I bail on this traffic and go home now? Sob!" Seriously, people were flipping each other off, cutting each other off, honking, throwing things (!) -- another hour and there would have been riots.
*** Number of times the word "awesome" is used in this post: 3. Number of times all these activities (except for the traffic) deserve: 5,000,000.
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