September 4-5 - Fashion, Tech and Titanosaurs, Oh My!

"One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it"
- French Proverb





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  1. cranemasterSeptember 7, 2014 at 10:34 AM

    I read that book by Isabella Pedersen that the article quoted. Pretty cool! I can't wait to see what the next round of stuff looks like!

    So crazy. I still don't understand what draws people so strongly to that. Watching other people play video games is actually one of my least favorite things.

    Jeez. I can't believe that it was still growing. Those things are crazy! Pretty soon they're going to run out of big things to put -saur after... I just have to say that I'm getting a little bit tired of sauropods breaking their own records. I think it's about time we discovered some new dinosaur paradigm that's totally different

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  2. MattSeptember 8, 2014 at 9:23 AM

    Hehe - I totally agree about twitch. It seems like a desperately awful way to spend time.

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  3. MattSeptember 8, 2014 at 9:25 AM

    The Isabella Pederson book seems pretty cool - we should talk more about MICA. I know a fair amount about that deal and what they are looking at doing.

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