So Dustin and I made the voyage over to Bryan, Tx, as well as Texas A&M (which we came to learn are two totally different places).  I had a contact at A&M, a Professor in media studies, Patrick Burkart, who set us up with a slew of talks and meetings to go to in order to orient ourselves with the campus.  Our first meeting was a talk about metadata systems and modeling, which at times proved very interesting, especially when the idea of doing qualitative/quantitative analysis of twittering came up.  But I digress….  (into academia boredom!)

Emerging from our meetings, Dustin and I came away with a new respect for academia in A&M, while also wondering why the engineering buildings seemed to be 10-100X nicer then all the other buildings

We then met with Patrick where we talked about his upcoming book about hacktivism, cyberliberties and evidently the ACTLab (at least a little, here’s hoping!).  We then headed over to The Creative Space in Bryan, Tx where we met with Cody and Bill.  Here is a short interview I did with Bill about the vibe of The Creative Space.

After showing us around, the Creative Space people took us to dinner.  A couple days before our trip Cody informed me he was organizing the first DorkBot BCS meet and invited Dustin and I to present a project or two.  Never ones to turn down a good Dorkbot, Dustin and I showed up with some cool ACTLab hardware projects based around homebrew amplifiers and hard drive speakers.  To say the least the crowd was impressed and we were impressed by the crowd.  There was some great energy that night.

So yeah, BCS was a good time and if you are ever in their neck of the woods make sure you drop by and say hi to Patrick at A&M and Cody and the gang at The Creative Space.

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