Wednesday 09/30/2026
I wasn’t able to join the usual Wednesday hiking group because we docents were summoned to the Museum to be introduced to a new temporary exhibit.
The temporary exhibit is about Virtual Reality hardware, mainly fancy glasses but some other devices. There have been attempts at an immersive VR experience for a long time. The curators pulled about 100 examples from the collection and put them together for this.
After lunch I sat in the auditorium while Bert and IT guy Andrew experimented with the projector. Bert wanted to find a way to get our (very expensive top of the line) video projector to crop its image to half height. I stayed out of it. He’s welcome to screw around, as long as he puts things back the way they were. I left while they were trying to put things back but hadn’t quite. It better be right when I run an event.
At 5pm I went up to 11 where we had a special Webster Street Grille for prospects. The Marketing dept paid for this. A Webster St. Grille as I’ve described before, is a fancy restaurant-style meal. Ordinarily it costs $50 for a resident to partake but this was a freebie. There were ten tables and they had invited ten respectable residents like myself to be table hosts. So I made nice conversation with Jay and Sally and Margie, who are on the Advantage list (have paid a small deposit) waiting for the right apartment to open up, and Tom and <forgot her name> who have actually signed and paid for an apartment at Arris, the new satellite campus. They expect to move in, in December they hope.
