A weekend, part 2.
Oct. 10th, 2004 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drcuriositySaturday morning. Tired and feeling a bit ill from last night, but awake enough for the task at hand: today, I am going fabric-shopping for Science.
I asked my mother about good places to go the previous day, and she kindly offered to provide me both transport and a native give in the area of retail textile outlets.
Upon reaching Spotlight Plaza, we set about looking for materials. What we need is a material that's sufficiently non-IR-reflective that hands and things will show up through it, but still visible enough to be a projection surface. To aid us in this search, I've borrowed a Sony handycam with NightShot capability, and a small piece of infrafred filter plastic.
Eventually we find something that looks like it might be useful - a couple of different kinds of cotton voile. I buy a couple of metres of each, and my mother suggests that if they're unsuitable for my research purposes, they can be made into shirts. Have I mentioned how generally nifty my parents are?
Home for a lazy afternoon. There is a party in the evening, and I'm feeling starved enough for human contact that I go along without any good way of getting back home.
The party's generally quite good. Lots of decent costumerie around. I get quite a bit of decent exercise on the dancefloor. Get reintroduced to Di, who is nifty. Talk to other friends I haven't seen in a while. Get mysteriously ignored by some people I try to engage in conversation. Talk to one of those people later, who honestly didn't see me - must have been that invisibility thing again.
Thankfully, homewardness supplied by Uncle Brian, so I get more and better sleep than if I'd hung around at University for the first morning bus.
Not much to be said about Sunday. Get some relaxing done, give my sister the remainder of her birthday present (i.e. Drippy, a fallingblock blob game from Screaming Duck Software). Took photos of some stuff around the house while I have the camera on loan from the lab.
My packet of fruit jubes has a mutant:
Expecting a quiet evening in. Unsure whether I should find something to cook, or just walk down to Burger Wisconsin for dinner.
I asked my mother about good places to go the previous day, and she kindly offered to provide me both transport and a native give in the area of retail textile outlets.
Upon reaching Spotlight Plaza, we set about looking for materials. What we need is a material that's sufficiently non-IR-reflective that hands and things will show up through it, but still visible enough to be a projection surface. To aid us in this search, I've borrowed a Sony handycam with NightShot capability, and a small piece of infrafred filter plastic.
Eventually we find something that looks like it might be useful - a couple of different kinds of cotton voile. I buy a couple of metres of each, and my mother suggests that if they're unsuitable for my research purposes, they can be made into shirts. Have I mentioned how generally nifty my parents are?
Home for a lazy afternoon. There is a party in the evening, and I'm feeling starved enough for human contact that I go along without any good way of getting back home.
The party's generally quite good. Lots of decent costumerie around. I get quite a bit of decent exercise on the dancefloor. Get reintroduced to Di, who is nifty. Talk to other friends I haven't seen in a while. Get mysteriously ignored by some people I try to engage in conversation. Talk to one of those people later, who honestly didn't see me - must have been that invisibility thing again.
Thankfully, homewardness supplied by Uncle Brian, so I get more and better sleep than if I'd hung around at University for the first morning bus.
Not much to be said about Sunday. Get some relaxing done, give my sister the remainder of her birthday present (i.e. Drippy, a falling
My packet of fruit jubes has a mutant:
Expecting a quiet evening in. Unsure whether I should find something to cook, or just walk down to Burger Wisconsin for dinner.
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Date: 2004-10-09 11:23 pm (UTC)Fancy a coffee some time? (no smoking)
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Date: 2004-10-10 02:24 am (UTC)Coffee sounds good.
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Date: 2004-10-10 12:05 am (UTC)Nostalgia
Date: 2004-10-10 12:25 am (UTC)[I hade to delete my original comment and repost , because misspelling nostalgia was *horrible*]
Re: Nostalgia
Date: 2004-10-10 12:26 am (UTC)BAH.
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Date: 2004-10-10 12:50 am (UTC)And we pedants are well-hanged, too... ;-)
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Date: 2004-10-10 05:14 am (UTC)(I been readin'. I just ain't knowed what t'say 'til now.)
Mutant juuuuuuuuuube!
SugarMoose strikes again!
Date: 2004-10-10 07:41 am (UTC)Quite an appropriate thing to say, really :-)
Jubinating the countryside...
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Date: 2004-10-10 07:46 am (UTC)Re: jujubiee
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Date: 2004-10-13 03:52 am (UTC)Let me know, please.
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