Monthly Archives: December 2011

wednesday night late – dog ate my homework excuse

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Friends,

I need to use the ‘dog ate  my homework’ excuse’ . I’ve had a busy. full and productive day.. but .. if it’s all right with all of you, I’ll wait until tomorrow to write about it. It’s 2Am and I have a 4AM cab to the airport.. I hope that’s ok.. and if it’s not.. please come knock.. room 2283, Metropol hotel, Moscow..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

ps. Vermont folks.please remember the ‘That’s Brilliant ! event at the Echo Center Tomorrow (Thursday) night at 6:30.. come celibrate vermont invetions and vermont inventors.. be there or be square. We need help getting a crowd.. please pass the word !

Tuesday night – russian friends

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A good day here overall.. I did one of the things I love doing most.. that is talking to very smart technical people. The folks at the lab here in Moscow are truly brilliant.. .. what’s more they are warm and welcoming..

It was a long day.. many conversationns.. many things to thik about.. I was getting pretytjetlagged by the end of the day as we battld our way through traffic back to the hote

At Ian’s suggestion, we abandoned the traffic-bound  taxi a few miles form the hotel  and grabbed the subway..l.

 

It was a beautiful night.. cool.. no rain.. the city was decked out for Christmas..

 

Here’s the theater again.. newly renovated

 

We dropped our bag and headed to a famous beer restaurant garv piva torg. Here’s Ian trying to figure out where our beers dissapeared to

and here’s andrej.. my freind from Slovenia.  Both great guys.. We had a good talk tonight..some personal, some work talk.

Dinner was good.. sea bass and pioroshkis..

then Andrej and I walked back to the metropol while Ian headed back to his home..

Red Sqaure was open tonight, so Andrej and I tool a quick walk through to see the decorations..

here’s the Kremlin .. looking very festive

they’ve installed a temporary ice rink in Red Square .. How cool is that !


i put a samstone near lennis tomb..left one in about the same place in 2007.


and here’s the eutiful gym of St/ Basils.. it’s just such a cool building.. last time I was here it had scaffolding.. tonight it was radiant

Now I have to sleep.. I gotta be up early tomorrow.. Wish me luck with my talk.. I’ll need it !

nite all, nite Sam

-me

 

 

Monday night – from Russia with love !

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Greetings from Moscow.. I’m staying in the Hotel Metropol…. I’ve stayed here before..  It’s a wonderful place.. beautiful and welcoming.. but with just enough 1960’s spy ambiance. The walls are covered with pictures of dignitaries , writes and artists.. who’ve stayed here..

 

I’m sure the walls are bugged. The people are just great.

It’s been a long travel day.. so I won’t write much.. came through via London where I stopped long enough to drop off a samstone..

THe plae was delayed.. so I got to Moscow Airport about an hour late.. it was cool and rainey.. a. The traffic into the city took about 2 hours !!..

It was interesting seeing the city now.> The place is really locked down due to the elections that are going on.. If you don’t know about that.. check out CNN.. I’m right at ground zero for that.. There’s a big stage with Putin’s picture on it right in front of the hotel.. More troubling is that the place is crawling with police.. Red Square was completely blocked off.. I coulnd’t even go take a peek !

I did get a nice view of the Bolshi theatre

The place is completely coveres with computere controlled blinky christams trees.. very festive in a carnival kind of way..

 

I went out aroeund `0 to find soemthing to eat.. bt all I found was meat.. so .. back to the hotel for room service.. very nice !

 

Despite the police everywhere… I was able to lob a samstone into one of the fancy Christmas trees..

Well.. hope to see red square tomorrow..  Right now I need to sleep !

More tomorrow.

 

Nite all, nite sam

-me

ps.   Just a reminder.. We’re trying to get as many folks (adult folks) to the ‘That’s Brilliant !’ event at the ECHO center this Thursday Dec 8th at 6:30.   It’s a celebration of Vermont Inventions and Inventors.. many of my freinds will be there showing their cool creations. Please come , have a glass of wine and check it out.. We need help getting the word out.. so please tell your friends !

Here’s a facebook event for it , too !

 

Sunday night – somewhere else

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Sunday night .. another airport…i’m sitting beneath a bank of payphones that have only been used once in the 3 hours I’ve been sitting here.. ( What will happen to all the places where payphones are currently ? What will happen to the phones themselves ? Could we make them into art ? (. I’m on my way to Russia for a talk and another chance to meet with the technical team from my company.. The thought of these trips always sounds good when I agree to them months before.. but seem crazy  when it comes time to go.. That said.. the ability to meet with and possibly help my technical peers is so energizing.. for me (and I hope for them)..

As always.. I’ll post pictures and impressions of of my travels here.. Please come with me…

talk to you from somewhere else…

nite all, nite sam

-me