They liked me so much, they got me a ROCK!
Painted image copyright this person whose real name I don't know , although if you have a burning desire to make a copy just copy the thing it's based on, honestly. This past weekend was King and Queens Arts and Sciences championships in Mt. Kisco, NY. I had entered it two years ag o when this research was in a much, er, less tasty state, and I was still figuring out some of the process details. There were ~40 entrants, and, as I did two years ago, I made the second round of judging, but did not win, which is totally fine. I love these events because A&S is the thing I like the most about the SCA, and the best of SCA A&S is on display there. Unfortunately, I didn't get to dig into the other entrants as much as I would have liked to because I got to talk to so many people! A neat thing happened there: I apprenticed to Magnús , which in SCA land means something like "we're officially science-friends." This is cool because it means I get to bug...