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So I've been avoiding blogging and generally any form of socializing on the interbutts for the past month and a half. With the exception of Facebook, I have been completely absent from instant messaging. It isn't that I'm trying to avoid my friends. I find it refreshing to disconnect every once in a while, and get to know people in real life. Making myself inaccessible from the internet forces others to interact with me in the real world.

Or, they just ignore me altogether.

Just kidding. I love my friends. You know who you are, you're awesome!

So this Yahoo Brickhouse open house shindig went down on April 27th. I likened it to a sort of Processing orgy. All of the projects that were shown, save for one, had somewhere somehow been written with Processing. I'm sure Fry and Casey never wanted this kind of a monoculture to develop with the tool, however I'm constantly amazed by my peers with the things they're able to pull off with it.

Without rambling on too much more ("give us the damned pictures already!!" I hear) I want to give thanks to Jeff and Moto for renting us their hot hot hot multi-touch display. And for those who made it: Daniell Hebert, Daniel Massey, Tom Carden, The Nimoys (all the way from LA.. who performed for us! yay!), and our awesome DJs, event planners, technicians for making it happen.

Oh yeah, and Joy, Larry, and Ben.

These photos are taken by Ben Clemens. You can find the entire set on his flickr page.

I'm assuming these are okay to publish publicly since.... well they ARE on flickr.

The... "storm before the storm". Quick, finish that function!

Very PO'd Moto people for making them wait all day.

What will soon become the front of a hot bar.

Looks like some kind of mission control center...

Yep. Definitely a control center.

And a rave.

Flickr images are called out from the location you touch, on the planet.

I'm a bit confused why there were Taiko drummers there.

The big boss. The princess is in nother castle. Sry.