The show was a success, in every way, even though things failed in all the wonderfully unexpected ways that things do. We almost got shut down by the fire department at the last minute — but we didn’t. Many machines died in rapid succession during the show — but they looked great as they expired…

A few great photos from today (and more story) here. Also an enjoyable, short video of the Inchworm inching around SRL here.

Sunday night Minx surprised me with a suite in an expensive downtown hotel after I’d worked 14 hours straight loading machines — I took the above pic at dawn this morning before heading to SRL for more machines. She was only in town for one night on business, and I was so beat I could…

I participated in some incredible, seriously non-OSHA approved forklift ballet today. In the image above, Johnny and I are running forklifts in synch to lift the Big Arm up off the flatbed, then Dan drove the flatbed out from under the machine, and we set it down simultaneously. We did this several times today with…

Tired, all day at SRL. Photos + narrative begin here; a few really dumb (but fun) new movies here. Not terribly exciting, but if you’re following along at home… Now, off to bed with an early loading call tomorrow. Image: out forklift rental, which really *sucks* because it slips its gears and I hate driving…

Since I seem to like taking self-portraits before going out, I went ahead and made an album here. I’m taking a great beating in this post; I organized trucks, forklift deliveries, assessed all the SRL machines, made a machine load list, a machine completion/work list, organized dozens of volunteers in shifts for loading over the…

Us SRL crew are big MAKE fans; this should come as no surprise since we’re all the kind of technopervs that have to lubricate, poke, prod and open up everything we get our hands on. We’re also all pretty pervy, and we talk about sex (and relationships) just as much as we talk about the…