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Happy Halloween!
Nov. 1st, 2008 02:41 amWell, okay, it's technically All Saints Day now, but I haven't slept yet, so I consider it still Halloween.
I had a fun and relaxing night, though it seems that much of San Francisco did not. Noisebridge held a Halloween open-house, and although I hadn't planned on going in costume, around 2pm, inspiration struck. I went down to the corner store and the hardware store to scrounge some supplies, spent the next few hours futzing with cardboard, duct tape, spraypaint, aluminum foil and oil pastels, and came up with this:
( Geekiest. Costume. Evar. )
There were some pretty cool hacks at the party. Mitch Altman (yep, the TV-B-Gone guy) brought dozens of little RGB LED gadgets which cycle through several colours and reset themselves when they detect motion, so that a wave of one's hand causes a ripple of colour (like this). There was also a webcam taking time-lapse video of the party and projecting the previous hour's recording on the wall throughout the evening. And, of course, there were lots of geeky costumes (including one girl dressed as a nudibranch!) and even people soldering in the electronics room all night.
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ephermata and a friend of his and I decided to check out another party hosted by one of ephermata's friends from high school, but that didn't work out too well, so we wandered down to the Elbo Room, but by the time we got there, they were closing. We decided to head home, and started back down Valencia Street toward the car, but noticed a large number of police cars converging on the intersection of 16th and Valencia and several policemen running toward the intersection with their batons out. As we had no interest in being anywhere near a riot, we turned right around and took a more circuitous but much quieter route back to the car. The guys dropped me off at home, and now it's time for bed.
I had a fun and relaxing night, though it seems that much of San Francisco did not. Noisebridge held a Halloween open-house, and although I hadn't planned on going in costume, around 2pm, inspiration struck. I went down to the corner store and the hardware store to scrounge some supplies, spent the next few hours futzing with cardboard, duct tape, spraypaint, aluminum foil and oil pastels, and came up with this:
( Geekiest. Costume. Evar. )
There were some pretty cool hacks at the party. Mitch Altman (yep, the TV-B-Gone guy) brought dozens of little RGB LED gadgets which cycle through several colours and reset themselves when they detect motion, so that a wave of one's hand causes a ripple of colour (like this). There was also a webcam taking time-lapse video of the party and projecting the previous hour's recording on the wall throughout the evening. And, of course, there were lots of geeky costumes (including one girl dressed as a nudibranch!) and even people soldering in the electronics room all night.
Around 1 am,
ephermata and a friend of his and I decided to check out another party hosted by one of ephermata's friends from high school, but that didn't work out too well, so we wandered down to the Elbo Room, but by the time we got there, they were closing. We decided to head home, and started back down Valencia Street toward the car, but noticed a large number of police cars converging on the intersection of 16th and Valencia and several policemen running toward the intersection with their batons out. As we had no interest in being anywhere near a riot, we turned right around and took a more circuitous but much quieter route back to the car. The guys dropped me off at home, and now it's time for bed.