Tom Vilot @ Tue, 2008-02-05 03:31
I don't think I've had as much fun in a very long time.
Today was the first day I did a presentation to third grade students using the StarLab portable planetarium. StarLab is awesome enough, but the kids inside StarLab are far more awesome.
Just a few things that knocked their socks off:
- That there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world.
- That we are "stardust" -- literally made of the stuff that came from ancient exploding stars.
- That it takes 100,000 years for light to get from one end of our galaxy to the other.
I love seeing the world (universe) through their eyes.
If it were only possible to make a great living do this a few times a week, I would be




For a 'blog titled "Art and Software," I really don't write a lot about art. Jeez. I'm going to have to change that.