Last week, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation was awarded to two professors that I’ve worked for – Prof. Langer at MIT and Prof. Arnold at Caltech. These awards are the highest achievement that can be given to an engineer – the Nobel prize for engineering. I watched the live feed on the web, it kind of blows my mind that I had the opportunity to work in these world class labs. Working in these research labs taught me so much about the scientific process. Congrats!
Get out of the house! You don’t know how much I struggle with finding outings for the family. We are not very coordinated – often times we will spend a free afternoon just frittering away time, playing bejeweled. We made it out to Frederick Douglass’s house this past weekend 🙂
We are often busy in the evenings, so sometimes it’s hard to have a quiet evening at home. Last night we had no plans – so we made handmade pizza and popcorn/movie night. I called January the Martin/Lee household celebration of small appliances month. We bought a room humidifier, a brown rice cooker and a popcorn popper. I got tired of having popcorn in a bag – so I got an air popcorn popper and had popcorn with real melted butter and salt. Yummy. The dogs agreed.
We try and have movie night once a week – it doesn’t always work out and we always watch the same thing – we watch Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. It’s the only thing we can all agree on. Last night was a great episode about the SF city dump. Now that is a a dirty job.
