Long day.. Very busy at work, then a talk this evening at UVM. I spoke ot the CS Students Association about the whole Maker Movement in Vermont. I had to leave at 8PM to get home in time to intercept the tail end of Gabe’s Lacrosse team dinner. There was the whole team sans pads and helmets.. I’m so used to knowing them by their numbers that it was kind of fun trying to figure out which face went with which number.
My part of the dinner was to make liquid nitrogen ice cream.. it was a special request from Gabe. Diane made the chocolate soup, then Gabe and I poured it into a large pan, added the very gold nitrogen and started stirring.. In less than 5 minutes we had 2 gallons of very delicious ice cream !!!
After ice cream we did some other cool stuff with the LN2.. we froze flowers, scallions, lacrosse balls, whipped cream, even balloons.. which shrink down in the nitrogen, then re-inflate magically as they warm
Wierd musing of the day.. I just started noticing how so many things are now prominently labeled as ‘gluten free’ .. now,. Im all for labeling to help folks make proper food choices.. I have quite a few freinds who have recently discovered that they are gluten intolerant.. but.. I still think it’s funny that some things like raspberries have to be labeled that way..
I suppose its like sodas that are labeled fat free… I guess you advertise the attributes that you can…
the irony is.. one of my favorite foods is actually braised gluten in a can… now if I could only find free gluten !
Tuesday night , back home and glad to be so… We had a great trip going down to see max on the boat its so good seeing him find his way in the world we love the people on the boat it is such a coo place to hang out
W had a good trip back home as well. I spent most of the time on the phone with work calls… But dine snuck in some good conversations and a little more of the audio book were listening to. We’re listening to jonah lehrer’s new book ‘imagine’ about the process of creativity. Some cool stuff in there like..
You can improve your creativity just by pretending that you are a child
it pays to be little sad when you need to be creative
you can use transcaranial stimulation to turn off the inhibitors in the brain.. That causes some people to temporarily become more artistic
the closer people are physically to their collaborators, the more likely there work is not to suck
brainstorming without respectful pushback doesn’t really work that welll
when you need inspiration, it pays to goof off
mixing new people into existing groups gives better innovation<... Bit too many or too few new people decreases innovation/li>
being the new kid on the block without background often helps with innovation
people will help solve your big hairy problems if you learn to incent the, properly
And many more.. But i’m too sleepy to remember them…
That means time for bed…more tomorrow
Nit all, nite sam
-me
Very full day. I spent the day working in Armonk wchis is also fun. y trips there are full of new, cool info.. and I really like the folks I’m working with in this new roll. .. I didn’t get home until about 7PM.. we all met at the boat
Including my old freind Andy F.. I know him from hos days as floor manager at Higher Ground. He’s a great soul.. I’ve always wanted him to see Max’s boat.. today he made it.
We all headed out around 830 for dinner.. .. here we are walking away from the boat.
we got to robertas and were told it was a 2hour wait.. but they managed to seat us in 15 minutes. Bonus !
now back on the boat.. everyone fading into their screens in the dark.. kinda erie.. ..
here’s Dave and Amy with the wing of a turkey Dave shot in Texas last month.
Max just went off to work.. whic means its time for the rest of us to go off to sleep..
