Spoiler alert - a few weeks after we got the first version of the software running....the bottom fell out of the alt-coin market (for the first time) and I decided to stop working on it. Lol. Was super-fun and interesting project for a while tho!
...and watched Game of Thrones. (I also spent a ton of this trip listening to the audiobook of Dune and all of these photos make me think about Dune weirdness!)
Not really feeling my new living room rug. I like that it's bigger than my last rug, but the pattern is so crazy and complex that it's hard to find anything I put down on the floor. Haha. On Saturday I tried watching some Wolf Hall on Netflix.
...and there's something on the screen that they don't want you to see (or in this case, immediately take photos of!). Careful, y'all - I'm mighty quick on the draw with my camera! Turns out, it wasn't anything to be embarrassed about...
On Monday night I went over to Grant's apartment to help with with an experiment he was conducting for an article. He was trying to find out whether directly stimulating his brain with electricity via a handmade device he'd purchased from the internet...
If you're ever wondering why I'm not posting photos here so much anymore, it's because a few years ago I got lost in the world of music. Now instead of working on this site, a lot of nights I just end up playing guitar until my eyes don't stay open. Happy July 2014!
On Sunday afternoon I went over to Jared & Gurj's to celebrate Jared's birthday! Before heading out for the evening, I gave them a sneak peek of some upcoming IKAD pics that I'd just uploaded)
I decided to stay in NYC and spend Thanksgiving by myself. Spent the day feeling a little lonely and reading. After dinner, my brother and Amy called...
Later that evening, I got an Apogee JAM adapter that lets you jack your guitar's audio signal into your computer. I spent the rest of the night playing around with GarageBand.
Mer came over on Wednesday afternoon so we could go through the 36-page draft of our divorce agreement that our mediator had drafted for us. Afterwards, we looked over at each other's recently-created OKCupid profiles and had a laugh.
We were playing a game where you try to focus your attention single-pointedly, and it makes a disco ball float up into the air. The goal is to keep the ball floating for as long and as "high" into the air as you can. Our mom does yoga quite a bit and has been interested in mindfulness for years, but we were both surprised at how good she was at this game!
After dinner, Sylie introduced me to Derren Brown via Youtube. (If you haven't heard of him, check him out. Apocalypse, in particular, where they trick a man into thinking a zombie apocalypse has actually happened, is B-A-N-A-N-A-S. I can't believe they do this shit on British TV. (And I don't understand why he's not super-famous in the USA yet?)
...trying out my new Neurosky headset. It's interested to watch your brain-waves in real-time, but sort of counter-productive because it keeps grabbing your attention.
I ended up moving the laptop behind me out of my line of site. The software allows you to "record" your brainwaves and review them after the session is complete.
The meter at the bottom shows you how "focused" your attention is. The more focused you can make it, the more quickly you can explode each barrel. The goal of the game is to explode barrels in as few seconds as possible. Fun!
After a few drinks, we headed upstairs to my apartment so we could try out my Neurosky headset and the games that you play by trying to focus your brainwaves! Here's Quinn focusing her attention to try to explode video-game barrels full of TNT.
...where it interprets your brainwaves and graphs them as they relate to "attention" and "relaxation", the two simultaneous poles of mindfulness meditation.
...we met up in Amanda's room to try to figure out where we should all travel to next! Amanda only had 4 days before she had to come back to Manila and head home, so we wanted to travel somewhere close enough where we'd still have time to have fun!
