Went by the Lulu Tech Circus Saturday. More or less what I expected. I think the
concept has potential, but I think it needs to perhaps attempt to reach a bit
more of a (for lack of a better word…) “underground” audience. Ie, seeing
demos of maya, and new FPS games, and lego mindstorms are cool, but
I think seeing something more akin to dorkbot
or srl or resfest
or the norcal noisefest would
be generally more interesting. There also seemed to be something of a lack
of cross-interests things. Something like panel discussions on “the future of
music” or “anti censorship ideas” or “reverse engineering issues” or whatever
that involved people from different areas. Not to mention just more fringe
“geek” groups (radio hams? model rocket geeks? guys that build jet engines
at home? people that
cast their own tools? rolling
ball sculptures? ). But I digress.

Then somehow I ended up eating at Crazy Fire, and then going bowling. Didn’t do too
bad. Think the first game was 140 something and the second was about 160. Dont remember
exactly. Probably less than that. I have two shots when I bowl, one is pretty much
exactly what you want (hit between the 1 and 3 at a slight angle) and the other is
“straight down the alley about 4 inches from the gutter”. They seem to appear
randomly during my game.

Then off to the feathernet gallery in an attempt to catch badger and some
folks from BAAMPH! play. But I missed
there set, but did manage to catch the last two acts, both of which were quite cool.
And definitely not the kinds of acts that are easy to see around here (or anywhere?)
very often. That show is also a good example of more of the time of stuff I’d like to
see at the Tech Circus. Discussed an idea for a twist on the typical “sitting
motionless twiddling knobs” aspect of some electronic[a?] shows.