1.  I wish I could say that Curious Giorgio and the Infinite Discoteca was a result of a cold medicine or some such, but the fact of the matter is it was an idea that was soberly conceived in an airplane bathroom (the mile-high clubhouse!) last week and birthed at my desk while waiting for a crane to cease its looming over my laboratory causing safety to lock us out of the whole corridor.  LOOMING!

    I should think the fluid dynamics papers (or even the postcards from tattooine/papyrus stuff,) were a lock for “probably my best work this year”, but my work as a powerpoint* ranger makes a weirdly compelling last minute case for itself sometimes. 

    (*Technically this is Keynote based.  It could have just as easily been a powerpoint file.  Determination of “the best tool” is mostly based on capability and proximity.  Mostly.  My laptop was right here.)

    Some less disorienting variation of CGatID would probably appear in the cutaway view of my “undivided attention”, c.f.:

    …just so you know.

    (Source: vimeo.com)