Science & Engineering festival in Washington, DC this weekend

[blakespot]

Hi Blake!  I think I have a photo of the back of your head!  We were in line at the Mars VR exhibit and saw you and the fam walking towards the "blimp".  Tried calling toward you but there was too many people, and we were too close to the front of the line to jump out, haha.    Hope you had fun!

I have a few photos also but we were mostly doing "rides" and shows today.  Here's a pic of me and my gf doing the VR stuff.  Also, the machines crunched some numbers and decided my future career should be a pilot.  I better start building my flight simulator.  Don't think my experience shooting at the EA headquarters in F/A-18 Interceptor counts for much, though.  

Hah nice! Sorry I didn't hear. We had fun tho -- looks like you did, too! I couldn't find the Tesla booth tho.

If you still have that back of the head photo, I'd enjoy seeing it. :-) Cheers!



bp

[Iggy]

Stop by and visit the SpaceX photo booth with your family, too. Here's us from yesterday.

Oh, that is SO damned cool. As a child of the Apollo era, Elon Musk's work really excites me.
I was just down in DC a few weeks ago to catch a Judas Priest concert at the Anthem and I walked from the train station to the Air and Space museum, spent a few hours, then walked over to the concert hall.
Neat town.

[Iggy]

Great! Actually I’m wearing a white NeXT t-shirt and have a PocketCHIP hanging out of my pocket. Still on the drive.

Cool, remind those OS9 troglodytes where the first decent Mac OS originally came from. Maybe Job wasn't that big a knob after all.

[kolla]

Neat town.

Yeah, everything pretty much in walking distance, and the metro lines for the rest, and if you hang out at the right bars at the right hours, you can get some pretty funny insight to US politics, haha My fav moment in DC was arriving there by night bus, and just breathing in the fresh ear and early morning quietness after a hectic weekend in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

(... a weekend which involved highly illegal activities such as camping with just my sleeping bag in central park overnight, and sitting with an empty beer bottle with some yeast left-overs floating around at the bottom, while overlooking east river from the Fulton ferry park. Though I had the bottle in a paper bag, like my cali friends had taught me, the latter cost me a 50 dollar fine from a cop with golf cart and flashlight, who struggled figuring out my height for his report, since my passport specifies it in star trek units :roflmao: )

[Iggy]

That sounds like fun. I originally wanted to attend one concert near NYC and then use Amtrak to catch the DC concert the next day. I should have done it (it wouldn't have cost me more than an additional $150).
And the region from NYC through Pholadelphia, Baltimore and then DC is all reasonably accessible via train or bus.
Makes it easier to get around. Transport isn't always as affordable as some European destinations. And lodging...well your sleeping bad in the Park makes sense to me because the price of a "cheap" NYC hotel room isn't good and it was probably safer.
Oh and the fixation on empty containers, great "revenue enhancer", isn't it?