Brain Dump

I’m tired, but here’s the update.

Landed safely last night right around 7:20, my scheduled arrival time. Caught the M60 (bus, not machine gun) to Astoria and took the W to the 1 then uptown. Arrived at the inestimably awesome ’s around 8:30 or so? Anyway, there was still food (food!), and it was quite tasty. Introduced the household to Jungle Speed (how do people not know how awesome the game is?) and they in turn introduced me to Hex-Hex (which is light and fun and makes me think about design). Then it was bed time for me.

Woke up relatively early this morning (stupid internal clock and keeping early hours). Had the place to myself with everyone asleep for an hour or so. Then and I took off for breakfast at this place with lovely omelets. I think we sat and talked for an hour or an hour and a half about the stuff she’s working on and the stuff I want to work on, and it was good times.

Then back to her place to grab my gear (I’m staying somewhere else tonight) and off to NYU I took myself. Showed up quite early for my appointment and killed time by wandering around the program floor looking at projects and labs and talking to students. Good times. Then I sat down and talked to Midori, who’s sort of the person who helps hapless prospective students like myself. She had good question and summarized the program extremely well. She answered all my questions and introduced me to a student or two. Good times. Along the way I mentioned that I was hoping to run into Clay Shirky (CLAY SHIRKY) if he were around. He wasn’t, but she said he might be back in a bit and introduced me to some students to talk to.

Clay did, indeed, come back. We talked, and it was super awesome. Clay basically does what I want to do, and needless to say it was a lot of fun trading ideas with him.

Anyway, I’m sleepy, so I’m out.

Thomas

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