Good grief, Gaela is right. It’s been almost a year since poor Frida passed, and only a few weeks since Soomu followed her into kitty heaven (padded with soft grass, garrulous mice, and giant tufts of living catnip). Time to get on with it– life after all is happy! For once, in these last few years!
Mike and I went to the Maker Faire in San Mateo yesterday and it was a ton of fun. We didn’t end up settling down at any of the booths to make anything, there was simply too much to see. There was a good bit of Burning Man element there, although a lot of it was also good clean nerdy fun. I love how in the main Expo pavilion, there was a “Make:” side and a “Craft:” side– gender isn’t a limiting factor to anyone who wants to make things, but in general, the electronics and technology-driven making was populated by boys, and handmade skills and arts were mostly populated by girls. The Lion brand yarn booth featured hyperbolic crocheting, which demonstrated the wonderful fact that mathematics is applied heavily in the knitting and crocheting crafts. I only wish I were a math maven, I would knit tesseracts and shapes described by analytical geometry.
One genius thing that I saw at the Maker Faire was at a booth describing digital photography hacks. They had set up a cooler– the kind you store your picnic beers and sandwiches in, and put a clip-on light (the kind you get from a hardware store) and voila! Instant, cheapo lightbox! I tried it out when we got home and took a photo of one of my favorite Jeanine Payer necklaces, the Mizu, in sterling silver. I used a flourescent bulb, daylight kind. The same one I use to expose my silkscreen photo emulsions. The very first try was not bad, although I had to Picasa it a bit.
Mike just made some very tart lemon drops from the Meyer lemon bush in the backyard, in cocktail glasses with a thin rim of superfine sugar. Tonight, a leisurely dinner with Battlestar Galactica (still on the first season). I’m moving in Memorial Day weekend. I’m thankful for everything I have right now. Life is really great.
