Sunday, October 12, 2008

honeymoon - day 7





today we spent the day in boston. the plan was to hit the MIT museum and then stroll on over to the harvard square oktoberfest and get hammered. we woke up a little before the museum opened so we went for a walk.
we walked across the charles river, which is the one where you see all the snooty harvard kids rowing down the river and really healthy young college people jogging along it's banks.
on the other side of the river is newbury st. which is like if you took georgetown and made it trendier. someone had this really awesome house with this even more awesome dog chillin' on the front steps.
the MIT museum was pretty small, but pretty cool. the first floor was not that exciting but the second floor had all their cool robot displays. they had cog and kismet, a bunch of the old hopping and walking robots from the media lab and they happened to be showing an episode of scientific american where they were interviewing my AI professor from CMU.
they also had a whole bunch of what i will call kinetic sculptures by arthur ganson where were all totally mesmerizing. for some reason, laura thinks people will be able to save the world with them. i just think they are kinda neat to look at.
after the museum, it was beer-o-clock, or so we thought. time to head to the harvard square oktoberfest and get smashed, right? wrong. these bastards don't have any god damn beer at their oktoberfest. i mean, not to sound bitter, but wtf? no beer? after walking around in a state of bewilderment we found the john harvard brew pub and proceeded to take matters into our own hands.

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