{"id":1125,"date":"2003-10-04T02:29:41","date_gmt":"2003-10-04T11:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2013-11-11T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:56:10","slug":"20031004-0-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/2003\/10\/20031004-0-3\/","title":{"rendered":"boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zette and I took a trip to Boston a little while ago.  She&#8217;s interested in taking instruction at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbss.org\/programs\/furnitureMaking.html\"> North Bennet Street School<\/a>, and they had alumni\/teachers demoing their work at two different craft fairs.  I&#8217;m not so sure that I think this is a great fascination for her, partly because Boston is a bit of a hike from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.arlington.va.us\/\">where we currently live<\/a>, but also because I&#8217;m concerned that because of her disabilities, she&#8217;s either setting herself up for failure, pain, or both.  Fortunately, they have shorter duration workshops that she&#8217;ll probably love without taking her away from home for long periods.<\/p>\n<p>We also had a chance to revisit some of my old haunts, including <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/\">MIT<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cambridge.zami.com\/business?BUSID=3113\">Mary Chung&#8217;s<\/a> (which IMHO is the finest Szechuan restaurant on the continent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epinions.com\/rest-Restaurants-All-Mary_Chung\/display_~reviews\">YMMV<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/activities\/41West\/\">41st West<\/a> (my undergraduate dormitory), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionoysterhouse.com\/\">Union Oyster House<\/a> and a handful of other Boston-touristy things.  We spent some time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/museum\/\">MIT museum<\/a> which was very cool but also somewhat disappointing, mainly because they had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ai.mit.edu\/projects\/humanoid-robotics-group\/kismet\/kismet.html\">Kismet<\/a> on display, but they didn&#8217;t have her turned on, which I think is a bummer.  I can understand that it would be hard to keep Kismet maintained properly if she were still running, but it&#8217;s still a bummer.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I didn&#8217;t plan enough ahead to work in everything that I might have wanted.  Apologies to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ai.mit.edu\/people\/nhm\/\">Norm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ai.mit.edu\/projects\/im\/gilliam\/\">Harris<\/a> for not letting you guys know earlier that I was in town.  Missed out on seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueman.com\">Blue Man Group<\/a> again, and I timed our departure wrong, so we weren&#8217;t hungry when we passed The Traveler restaurant (which everyone calls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafficzine.com\/reviews\/dining\/archive\/The%20Traveler.htm\">Food and Books<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Ah well, It is good to save some things for next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zette and I took a trip to Boston a little while ago. She&#8217;s interested in taking instruction at the North Bennet Street School, and they had alumni\/teachers demoing their work at two different craft fairs. I&#8217;m not so sure that I think this is a great fascination for her, partly because Boston is a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}