Rhiannon standing ankle deep in a desert water crossing, wearing a very shocked face. She's holding a flask.
Taken at ɪsᴏ 800, 30 mm, ƒ/1.4, ⅒ s on (SDR, ⓒ)

In 2010 my friend Rhiannon invited me to join her and some Caltech friends1 camping in the desert.

We took a lot of photos but unfortunately most of them are gone. This trip was the source for “science class with numist (aka, what not to do)” from which this frame of me fleeing multiple burning projectiles remains one of my favourites. Also: my old gravatar.

Between the beer keg half full of gasoline in a pyre and the bowling ball mortar I highly recommend going camping with rocket scientists, mechanical engineers, and their hacker friends.

  1. I later learned that I already knew a couple other moles, which is still funny ↩