I’m in route back to VT after a fun/short/interesting visit to Notre

Dame. It was very good catching up with my old friends there.   TOday I

did my best to attend the meeting in notre dame while also attending to

work. I did a fair ob.. but it’s hard to be in two places at once..  

You know, I’m getting increasingly convinced that our work culture is

doing the wrong thing in focusing so much on remote collaboration..It

certainly has it’s place on large projects.. but the level of

interaction is so much less interesting and less fulfilling.   I think

we need to divide our work such more tasks are geared around locally

autonomous face to face teams that would get together every so often to

collaborate remotely.. Call me a Luddite.. but I miss seeing people

when I tlak to them.. Nearly 0% of my work involves seeing people thse

days.. and seeing peopl eis one of the things I most love in life.. go

figure..
On a different note. I noticed this morning that today was

my 28th service anniversary at IBM.. 28 years ago I walked into building

973 wearing a light blue sweater with multiple holes in it.. I remember

that because I’d never lived anywhere that you might need a sweater in

august.   My most memorable thing about that day was that I got to set

off a fire extinguisher !…   28 years.. wow.. what A ride it’s been…

Speaking

of ride.. the plane is abotu to begin loading.. I better sign off

here.. It’s time to start getting nervous and excited  about the 3rd

installemnt of The Colony tomorrow.. Here’s  a short prelude of

tomorrow nights show

All for now.. Nite folks.. Night Sam !
-me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlLhq-WzMag