What was I up to before that?


I spent a couple of days working on the BioDiesel Bus tour.
Helped convert a new bus to biodiesel, and taught stick welding off of bus start er batteries. 8/7/08.


Camped at Orian Welling's house for a few days. 8/5/08.


Learned to gas weld aluminum at Oshkosh! 7/31/08.


Went to OshKosh, a huge homemade airplane show in Wisconsin. Got to tour the Goodyear Blimp. 7/30/08.


Paddled rapids on the Sauk & Mississippi rivers in Minnesota. 7/28/08.


I continue to explore firearms, this time in New Hampshire. I fire a Glock 9mm and an AR-15.
I think shooting guns like this is basically the same as bowling, only faster. 7/20/08.


I discover my instrument. The Gangsa, part of Indonesian Gamelan, is perfect. 7/19/08.


I became a poster child for MIT Visual Arts' List Gallery student art loan program.
I'm walking across 77 Mass Ave., with the original LOVE poster. 7/17/08.


Victor Brar, Kenny Jensen, Tim Anderson and I sailed in the Tomales Bay, camping among the elk, coyote, seals, rays, great white sharks, pelicans, and other fabulous wildlife. 7/12-13/08.


Current TV liked my instructable on how to make a homemade welder from junked microwaves so much, they flew me to California to film a how-to episode for their channel. 7/11/08.


I became a silicone molding/casting ninja in a day, at Instructables!
I made a cast of my hand to put over a stick shifter knob.
Now, to shift gears, the driver grabs this lifelike cast of my hand. And my hand appears to be reaching up out of the truck's floor! 7/10/08


I got a new lens for my camera. 50mm, f/1.8. The depth of field is magical. 7/ 9/08.


I learned how to fire a .22 rifle at Orian Welling's wedding, Stephen's Point, Wisconsin. 6/30/08.


On the way to a wedding in Wisconsin, I fell asleep into a light dream on the Amtrak platform, waiting for a train.
When I woke, this coyote was staring at me, and approached if I ever took my eyes off it. My first reflex was to snap this photo. 6/28/08.


I learned how to skin a roadkill Possum with the help of the book "Wild Woods Wisdom" and Tim Anderson, in San Francisco. 6/27/08.


Lifelike noisemaking stuffed animals make the best bike horns. I found this duck in a "dog toys" bin, and immediately lashed it to my handlebars. 6/25/08.


I solo traveled through Brazil for a few weeks, stopping in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. 6/3/08.


I learned how to fly a small plane! 5/15/08.


Henry Hallam and I fly back to Boston from Concord, NH, at the end of my would-be bike tour to Montreal, Canada. 5/15/08.


I celebrated my newfound summer freedom by hopping on my bike, intending to bike to Montreal, Canada from Boston. I made it to Concord, NH. 5/14/08.


I went to Maker Faire, and demonstrated Fuzzy Logic. I met a lot of excellent people, and was interviewed by Phil Torrone on boingboingTV. Excellent! 5/4/08.


I try rapelling and rock climbing, the sports, for the first time, in Los Angeles. This results in an excellent prussik-ascent of this Silverlake, LA tree. 3/27/08.


I discover Galco's, a soda-and-candy-only grocery store in Los Angeles. You can tell I'm delighted. In front of a case of rose petal soda. 3/22/08.