7/11 Reading about plastic in Chris Goodall’s book. Squinting your eyes a little, it’s tempting to think we might be on the cusp of being able to put any kind of matter into arbitrary configurations. Yeah, just like the alchemists in the Middle Ages. It would certainly help if we were.

And we all went to the Baylander. The magic of the place is greater than anything that happens there on a particular visit, which is usually not much at all.