when i woke up, the house was full high school students. the flaxmans were hosting the annual math club banquet at their house, and it started after abie and i woke up.

i felt sorta weird, since no one knew who i was. i stood around eating the food and talking to mr. and mrs. flaxman.

i was introduced to abie's 13-year-old little brother, seth. seth showed me his fractal generation program he was writing in C++. it was very impressive. he also gave me a long demonstration of why the Be OS kicks ass, and i'd have to agree with him. the machine he was using was a dual xeon 500, but the OS seemed to kick ass anyway.

seth turns out to be a really interesting kid. he asked me for help in disecting his laser pointer so that he could make it steady-state. we drilled and snipped and soldered until we had a working product. this kid can talk electronics and computers like a grad student.

he also plays ultimate. he's in 7th grade.

so i guess abie's whole family is extraordinary or something. abie goes to MIT, his younger brother joel will go to yale next year, and seth is a child genius.

so, here's some more reasons i'm totally jealous of this family: they have an awesome house which they just remodeled last year. they have lots of pets.

abie's dad is a tech maniac, so there are computers everywhere. i didn't really take an accurate count, but here's what i do know: there's one computer in abie's mom's office. there's two in abie's room. there's one in seths room. there's one in the study, one in the living room. abie's dad's office had at least 8, some of which weren't even wired up. i'm not exaggerating. they also have a video toaster and editing deck, and a 56K frame relay (permanent net connection) to their house. the family as a whole has a domain name and an entire network that runs throughout their house. joel's got one of those rio MP3 walkman things. they have a camcorder hooked up to the fancy xeon box. direct TV.

i love this house.

so, anyway, both of abie's parents campaigned for both of us to stay until tomorrow, and we gave in. we've got a lot of time to waste between here and los alamos. after yesterday's drive, we could use the rest and relaxation.

abie and i watched some movies, seth and i threw the disk around, and one of their dogs bit me in the leg. that's about it for today.