Liq­uid nitro­gen ice cream at MIT. Yup, the tra­di­tion is still alive. Mmmm, mint.

A spon­ta­neous blue­grass con­cert in the park behind my house. Sorry about the quality—even if I had exposed one stop lower, film would have done a bet­ter job with the high­lights here.

Boston Comic Con. You can’t top this place for people-watching. And zombies.

The Ego and the Ora­cle, an evening of “spon­ta­neous musi­cal fortune-telling.” If your ques­tion is cho­sen, you get to spin a giant wheel to select your song, which the band plays. An “inter­preter” then explains to the audi­ence (on behalf of the unseen Ora­cle) how that song answers your ques­tion. Excellent!