the 110 to the 405 to the 101 to the 217
went to UCSB yesterday to give a talk in lisa jevbratt’s class - george legrady and his students also sat in. my talk centered on social fashioning: or how i use social protocol and social infrastructure in deploying artistic wearable ad-hoc network applications. it seemed to go over well, or at least so i was told… anyhow the MAT and art programs seem to be doing some interesting stuff… lisa’s class is actually on protocols, where students are supposed to write their own to submit to the RFC - one student from her last class actually submitted his, but was alas, turned down. met some very interesting europeans also visiting and had a nice lunch with people at an ocean-side cafe.
you know, santa barbara is one of those ridiculously beautiful places - driving up from los angeles engenders this absurd level of wonder as ocean vistas sweep open around the twisting curves of the 101. i’ve made the drive before, several times in fact, but i never remain unaffected. (california kills me with sunshine and beaches, i’m finally starting to see it the way some non-native californians who have moved here do… like you died and woke up in heaven…)