It was another busy week. We got home from our trip Monday morning and it was straight to work. Wednesday evening we went to see a rock show, Cyndi Lauper at Madison Square Garden. Had dinner in the Persian place Jeannie likes before the show. Cyndi put on an excellent show. The band was great, and so was the light and video show, and she can really still sing. There were lots of costume changes, and a fair amount of long storytelling intros to songs. Between the two, they rarely played more than two or three songs without a pause. Ah well, she’s got alot of great, fun hits.
Friday night we went up to Boston for the OrigaMIT convention, which was on Saturday. It’s fun to be able to say I teach a MIT every year, even if it’s just origami. This year I taught my Flying Fish, since I recently folded a bunch of the for the OUSA holiday tree, and made some improvements to the design along the way. This year’s convention seemed a bit more low key than other years, and the only person I really ended up talking to in any depth was Brian Chan. Erik Demaine did his usual lecture on his research, and this year seems to have made good progress in cracking the layering problem, which central to the whole question of modeling origami in software. After the main classes were over, there was a group activity, a design challenge. For the prompt “things you find in a kitchen” I folded a cake with a slice cut out, and the missing slice out of another sheet of paper. Interested 3-D geometry challenge.
We drove Saturday after dinner. It was good to get an extra hour of sleep Sunday morning, and finally have a low pressure day off. The weather was nice so Jeannie and did a bike ride, maybe the last of the year. I went sixteen miles in a little over an hour. Also took the Mustang out for a ride, and raked up the leaves in the yard, which we hadn’t done since before our trip.
Monday came and I was pretty exhausted today, and also feeling out of sorts with it getting dark so early now that the clocks have shifted. Ah well, looking forward to not having to do any traveling for a while, and get some things done at home.
