The Build-a-thon teams re-assembled in the lower atrium of the lab to have breakfast and do final tweaks to their projects. Then we all gathered in the auditorium to see eight very different approaches to presenting ad banners, and the team I joined presented too. Since this was an invite-only workshop, I'm not sure if any of the work will be posted publically online anytime soon. But there were many innovative ideas.

The rest of the day: 2) I ate a bag lunch in John's lab. That's a Sony Aibo dog sniffing up my food. 3) Checking in with one of John's students who is working on senior-friendly clock designs. Laura is pictured holding up a very preliminary breadboard of part of a clock circuit. 4) After saying my goodbyes at the lab, I stopped into the MIT Press Bookstore. For the first time ever, I made it out of there with one book: Folding Architecture. 5) The afternoon saw heavy rain and almost gale force wind gusts. The storm had subsided a bit by the time I was in a taxi to Logan. 6) My flight back to D.C. was delayed about 40 minutes. We took flight into clearing skies. 7) An aerial view of Northern Virginia--a reassuring sight. 8) I arrived home to a happy family and Cianna's first art collage!

- mike lee - wheaton, md