Jesse and I visited North Attleboro Middle School on Friday.  The kids took some amazing photos!  We had a great time and hope to do it again.

Soap films are so fun to play with, especially if you have an easy to use setup.  Gus, Sam, and I spent the evening building a permanent soap film maker in our garage, but only one of us can blow bubbles consistently in the film!

Congratulations Dr. Epps!  I have been meaning to mention this for some time.  Pretty sweet fish pinata eh?  I especially like the nerdy 80/20 bat!  photo by Anna.

Anna took this lovely photo of an archer fish yesterday in hopes that I would restart Photo-a-day… Don’t you wish you could jump two body lengths out of the water?

Gus and I a year ago using the new underwater camera (now last years model) Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1.  First photo from the camera underwater.  The water looks yellow! I have some great photos I have been meaning to post for a long time… more to come.

R.I.P.  Anna took a photo of this fish nearly a year ago… I had forgotten about it, she measures the fish as much as possible before filming them… I thought I would put up a photo of this frightened fish in memory of its awesome abilities that were filmed throughout the year.  I am pretty sure it died of a disease not because it was “handled” but still very very sad to see such a beatiful creature die.

I have used skateboards, snowboards, swivelboards, but this separated two wheel device was not intuitive to my weak athleticism.

A couple of weeks ago another grad student showed us how to use these two sets of seperate wheels in a manner similar to a skateboard.

Some experimentation with the Iphone camera!

I made this delicious cake for Julie’s birthday and was fascinated by the ganache frosting.  You make a chocolate/cream sauce (ganache) and pour it over the top.  I thought it was interesting that it was thickest both in places where it was the least steep and at the bottom where it had cooled the most.  I wonder if dipping it would have made a more even layering.