this weekend. also, last week.

last week, clauclauclaudia and i went to NYC and saw "wicked". it was as good as hoped.

we were going to take the train, then we kept being slackful about getting tickets, and decided to drive, but then we saw the weather reports and got train tickets. good call, since we went down tues and went back weds. bad: no mid-trip stop at rein's. good: no driving for hundreds of miles of ice slushy frozen ick. better: our train north was cancelled, so amtrak honored our tickets on the acela which got us north in more comfort and arriving home about half an hour before we were scheduled to arrive.

later in the week, i talked to metagnat about electricity and making LED's light up and the secret ways of prototyping breadboards and stuff. i also discovered that my big box of electronic cruft smells faintly musty, like old books; this makes sense considering that the last time i did very much with it was at least a decade ago. i sent her off with my copy of horowitz and hill to read the fundamentals chapter.

( meanwhile, my nerdy weekend )

radiation == pirates

from the ever-fabulous APOCABLOG, blog of the apocalypse, what the new radiation warning symbol means. it means you will be pursued by pirates.