We returned from the Renegade Craft Fair last weekend in San Francisco with smiles as we sold almost all the particles I’d scrambled madly to make day and night for 2 weeks prior. It seems the world does need plush electrons and dark matters (the most popular item). Here is a photo of Sean and I taken by a cool fair-goer. Of course, leave it to a stranger to take one of the better pics of us. This was the most socializing I’d done in months (yes I’m a geek). We had fun telling people about particle physics and the different weights of the particles. I think many people walked out of there knowing just a smidge more about the standard model than they did walking in.

Particle zookeeper Julie and the zoo's top salesman Sean model a Z boson.