Lee is growing a beard!

They give MIT grad students free donuts for some reason.

At the Sharper Image store in the Prudential Building, Lee tried an exercise device. He didn't like it.

On the other hand, Cathy liked the massage chair.

Robosapien robots in action! Not that anyone can figure out how to control them.

Someday robot vacuum cleaners will make maps using my algorithms. Someday.

These things are supposed to help you find your golf ball.

I don't think they work.

Even Cathy can't figure out the Robosapiens.

Despite moving the gyroscope in the prescribed manner, Lee couldn't get it to work as advertised.

And these glasses overlay little guidelines for putting. I think they look fashionable.

Walking around downtown Boston in the snow.

Cathy wanted to rent a movie. So did everyone else in Boston, apparently.

Driving around in a blizzard in Lee's Mini.

Most people are smart enough to stay parked.

Safe in the garage at MIT.

Lee and I went to the MIT Lecture Series Committee's Sci-Fi marathon.

A darker but sharper picture.

When we came out (at 3 am), it was still snowing.

Massachusetts Avenue at 3 am in a blizzard.

Walking back to Lee's dorm in the snow.

Oh yeah. It was also windy. And really, really cold. My face hurt.

The smartest line of people waiting for a free brunch that you will ever see -- all MIT grad students (except me, I guess).

Out we went to check out the devastation.

My car.

Luckily, there is always a shovel in my trunk. A small one.

An hour or so later.

Walking around the dorm, we found the ZipCar running with the doors locked and nobody around. Notice the hole at the exhaust.

ZipCar is kind of a car-sharing type thing. But we didn't think the car should have been running for so long with nobody around.

"Wheels when you want them." Yeah, unless they are buried in three feet of snow.

Lee being a Good Samaritan and calling ZipCar.

The sidewalk on Albany Street was nice and clean.

Someone skiing down Massachusetts Ave.

MIT snowed in.

I will save you with my small metal shovel, MIT.

But instead we kept walking. Here is the Charles River.

Lee trudging along with the shovel.

Downtown Boston obscured by snow.

We came across this stuck car and stopped to help out.

And while that was going on, this car got stuck too, so we helped them out too.