Prototype @bostoncollege pumpkin. Soon to be automated (change color if someone gets close, etc..) after tweaking the design a bit for wire placement, size, speed of printing, etc... potential project for #halloween coding project in elementary science methods.#scienceteaching

About as surprising as the sun coming up. nature.com/articles/s4158… 20% of the US universities produced 80% of all tenure track faculty members. closely connected core of high-prestige universities that exchange faculty with each other and export faculty to—but rarely import them

Slowly working on the next charity clock for WalthamPublicSchools theater fundraiser. Color to add, wiring and lights, etc... maybe more engraving. #Waltham #woodworking #laser #CNC #making .... work on it when I need to think about grant writing....

#Waltham theater fundraiser clock coming along. Testing out LED lights, mechanism to install and make LED light bar holder. Impressed got the City Of Waltham seal to work at small scale and #steampunk gears of course. Inventables #grantwriting while #woodworking

Hmmm. So with insulin. with two type 1 diabetics in our house, pretty good insurance. The cost of the medicine and delivery mechanisms is still about the cost of a mortgage/month give or take. I'm sure the insurers will absorb the cost....

Yep, 10:30pm, tracking down the medicine and corresponding equipment that keeps our 14 year old alive. Good thing the medical system is best in the world in the USA.

Of all the challenging tasks I've taken on over the past twenty years by the most difficult has been recognizing when that sneaky depression fiend is re-emerging and taking steps to prevent. Extremely challenging. Fail, success, fail, success, etc...

So stay on Twitter and hopefully see Musk lose (tens) of billions of dollars? Have to say that has a *lot* of appeal. Though overall not that excited to stay.

Our latest work.

No one should be using this site anymore given his propanganda and general hate toward those less fortunate and more vulnerable. My new home is here: bsky.app/profile/mikebj… You should move to or to anywhere else.