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Today while Tom and Kate went to work, we headed in to San Jose to the Tech Museum of Innovation. The Tech, as it's known locally, has all kinds of hands-on exhibits, including one that takes your picture after spray-painting you in primary colors.
Not. It's actually an infra-red image of us which shows body surface temperature. (Cool legs; warm shoulders.) Other good stuff included a room which simulates earthquakes of varying intensities; a roller coaster that you can build, virtually, and then ride; a 'space chair' that you move around in by activating hand-operated jet packs; 3-D facial scans; and going into a clean room and getting a readout of how many dust particles are on you. And more useful stuff like that.
All of which was topped off with an IMAX movie of the Alps, which gave us vertigo but may condition us for crossing the Rockies over the next two weeks. -DJN