Blast from the past

[vettecat]

Tonight we went to see a special showing of Forbidden Planet with our friends M & B (and their friend B2). We'd been planning this for several weeks, but after B wrote to me yesterday pointing out that it had been mentioned in the Globe (it's funny that he noticed and I didn't b/c they live in RI), I thought I had better go buy the tickets this morning. It's a good thing that I did because it completely sold out. The theatre was packed. (I love living in Boston!) The introductory speaker gave an interesting presentation on how the field of robotics has progressed and what they're working on now. And seeing the movie on the large screen with several hundred fellow geeks was a lot of fun. It's amazing how the effects have held up. After the movie we went for ice cream (which was an adventure in itself b/c they'd left their car downtown and taken the T from there, so we all squished into my car... 5 not-small adults in a Camaro requires a certain amount of flexibility, but fortunately we weren't going far) and geeked about movies and such. Lovely evening. This "seeing friends" stuff is fun, we should try to do more of it...