Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Sci-Fi and Hollywood

Wired News: Hollywood Eats Sci-Fi's Brains

Good piece on the doldrums that sci-fi movies are in.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Engineer It!

What a fun time. Took the kids to see the Engineer It! exhibit at DMNS. We built earthquake-proof structures, an arch, paper rockets, and a geodesic dome (design by Buckminster Fuller).

It was also great to have a new way to explain my work to the kids. The tag line for the exhibit is "Think it, build it, test it." And I can explain simply that this is what daddy does, only it's inside the computer. The "think, build, test" cycle is what my day at work is all about.