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cynbe's panels
Originally uploaded by m4dd4wg.

Last night, I attended Sandy Stone's end-of-semester party. I used to TA for Sandy, so I was excited to former students and Sandy's odd assortment of friends. I never thought I would use "SOAP API" or "XML-RPC" in conversation ever again, but this party disproved that notion.

Later on, the party took on an even geekier turn. I was looking at some blogs on the machine in Sandy's office, when Janet Staiger walked past and asked, "Chris, have you seen the six-panel set-up?"
I was like, "Huh? What? No!"
Janet said, "OK, look at this," and led me into the small room where Sandy's partner, Cynbe, works.
"Good lord!" I exclaimed. Janet laughed and I ran for my camera.

The wide-angle setting on my camera wasn't wide enough to capture of the six 19" monitors Cynbe's using, but I think you get the idea. I've uploaded a few more shots from the party to Flickr, including a shot of the suspension system used to hold the monitor array together.

I also talked to my former student Charles, who said that his site, sorry everybody, will soon arrive in book format. The book will include pictures of the site and commentary about the election. Good for Charles! I also chatted with Jon for a bit about his sponsored-blogging experiment. I'm not sure I completely understand what his sponsor hopes to get out of the arrangement, but maybe I'm just jealous no one's paying me to blog.