Diary of a Mad Scientist

Theoretically my tour is over.

I’m here at home, with nothing scheduled. I have a lot of possibilities for classes coming up, but none of them are super soon.

HALLELUIJAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was an insane, completely frantic five months. I was rarely at home for more than two weeks. In February and March I was gone almost the entire month. And as I’ve already said, all of that involved getting on planes every few days.

The day that I updated my web page with the words ‘my spring tour is over’ (a few weeks after the grueling SLC classes) I e-mailed Graydon with this great sense of ecstasy.

Biodiesel Conference:
Right now things are about to get insane again because the biodiesel co-ops conference is coming up. (www.b100.org) We have a fantastic lineup (previous post). I have the feeling that the whole thing is going to be a bit like biodiesel sleep-away camp for geeks. The co-op conference gets to use some of the dorm rooms at the college that is hosting us, which means that people will be hanging around for hours after the event chatting. A very important point of the conference is to promote networking, for people to get to know each other, for them to share ideas and for projects to cross-pollinate. Also, we are including breakfast and lunch in the conference registration costs, which means that in addition to eating cafeteria food at an engineering school, will probably set up specific discussion tables to encourage further networking. For example, you can come to the conference and eat breakfast at the Southwest Regional Biodiesel table, move on to catch the discussion at the ‘glycerine disposal’ discussion table at lunch, and maybe even muster up the courage to facilitate the ‘get rich quick with a commercial biodiesel plant’ discussion table the following morning. Just kidding about the getting rich quick.