Woot! Mythbusters @ UCR!
I have no idea why, but Kari Byron and Grant Imahara from Mythbusters where on campus yesterday evening. Read the Post on the UCR Website. I found out about it on tuesday, and I just had to go. I arrived like 8:10ish thinking I’d be plenty early. The room reached it’s capasity of 500 persons when I was 16th from the front of the line. There must have been a good 200 more people behind me in line by that time! Then as one lady’s telling us they’re full and to leave, I see the first few people in the line get let in – and I jump back to where I was. Turns out, the fire marshal showed up and said it was okay to let in somemore people. I think they let another 50 or so in, including me. Finally, some good luck!
Kari and Grant where there for about an hour. They started with a five minute or so blooper reel from the show shown on the two large projection screens. I recorded most of it, and may put it on YouTube. The rest of the time was primarially a Q&A. When asked about ways to cheeat on a scantron exam, Kari said she didn’t know of any, and that she just usually sat next to the asian kid- then Grant waived. LOL I also learned that Grant has a book about robots, and that he was once on Junkyard Wars. Also interesting, Kari and Tory have degrees in film, Grant has a degree in engineering (Electrical? Mechnical? Who knows?), Adam “has… um… a high school diploma,” and Jamie has a degree in Russian!
I took some photos too, and I’ve put them up in the photography section of the website. Just click the thumb below to see the whole set. 
