8.28.10 pancakes at the farmers market

I have decided to try and network (and hopefully find an engineering job) by showing people the lens cooker. I feel that the dish cooker is much to dangerous at this point because a person could be blinded just by looking directly at it. I was considering heating syrup up with the cooker but it would boil if I left it on to long. I got up at 5:15 am and started making a bunch of pancake batter. I found out that we did not have any baking powder or baking soda left so since I was going to be running to the store anyway I decided to just buy organic just add water pancake mix.(probably better this way since I did not have to deal with refrigeration) I started getting attention right away. Hundreds probably at least looked at me. I probably talked with 60-70 people just in the three hours that I was there. I only had one guy laugh at the cooker but to be fair when he was looking at the cooker the bamboo stick I use to control where the focal point hits the pan snapped at the same time that the lens fell down when a gust of wind came up.(note to self get a stronger stick) Lots of people just wanted to look(this is a good thing) and most were encouraging saying things like "way to go" and "good for you" I had four people come up and ask to buy a lens cooker. I gave away several pancakes but I ate almost as many as I gave away.
I think I will go to the farmers market next week, but this time I will bring plates.