Monthly Archives: July 2012

Friday night – Fictional character

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crickets…. There's everywhere right now.. When it's quiet out, all you here is crickets.l I log e that sound, I love this time of year.. I can small fall…

Last night I noted that I had just hit 5000 facebook friends. His morning I made the unpleasant discovery that that's all the friends that facebook thinks a person should have.. They've cut me off.. I can't accept any new friend requests until I either unfriend people.. Which I'm just not going to do.. I wrote to them about this and (of course) have not heard anything back.. But I did discover a loophole.. In a bizzarro antipod to 'citizens uinited' the horrible supreme court ruling that declares that corporations are people .. I am going to declare myself a corporation. Seems that on facebook, a corporation can keep adding friends., or at least friends can keep adding it ,..

If I don't fancy becoming a corporation I can choose to be a brand, a business, entertainment , a cause or a 'artist, band or figure' . Honestly, I don't think I fit any of these descriptions.. I'm certainly not a business.. And while I like to be entertaining.. Hats not gonna fit either.. Public figure is a weird label. I'm not a public figure.thiguh I think I'm a pretty nice guy.. What's weird as you need to identify what sort of public figure you are if you use that label.l the choices are odd… They include

Actor/director, artist , athlete , author, business person, chef , coach , comedian, dancer, doctor, editor, entertainer , fictional character, government official, journalist,lawyer, monarch, musician/band, news personality, politician. Producer, public figure, teacher or writer… Note: no engineer, no scientist !

What's up with that ?

I guess I'm going for ficitional character.. Tats how i feel some days.. Let's see how that works..

 

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Thursday night – friends

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Nearly midnight.. Just getting back from a mad science show at the governors institute at uvm. A great group of high school kids this year.. Prod to be geeks.. I loved it. Long day today,. Sent my laptop in for rebuilding spent most of the day without a computer.. Talk about cold turkey ! I was lmost out of touch with the world. All I had to rely on was m iPhone and iPad.. LOL.
One thing that I did happen to catch on iPad today was that I just crossed the 5000 mark on facebook friends… (and I love them all 🙂 not sure how that happened… Or what it means. B it it is what it is..

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Ok.. Let me go ponder the meanings of this milestone s I sleep
Nite all, note Sam

-me

Wednesday night – secret island

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Had a long hard work day.. So when it turned 6pm I was ready for something differ.. Gabe came up to me with a machete and asked if I wanted to explore the secret island he found in the river near our house. Just what I was looking for.. I got on our bikes and rode about a mile to the trail head then rode down to the river. We ditched out bikes in the woods then waded across the river. The last few days of rain had it running fast and cold and up to IMF though. It was pretty hard walking across the current, but we got to the island still pretty dry… Gabe took me though a small opening in the brush . We walked thought a narrow trail then came in to the coolest clearing..it was in the center of the island, totally out of site of neither bank of the river… We spent a while clering some small trails and exploring the island.. E even came across an orienteering marker in the center of this very hidden place.. So funny

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I love living in a place where adventures like this are just a walk , run or ride away,..
Ok.. Time for Bed,. More tomorrow
Nite all, nite Sam
-me

Tuesday evening – robots !

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Busy day. Just finished my work and it's almost 11pm. I did have some fun today,though. Before work I went to the Vermont fablab at uvm and helped prep WCAX host Molly Smith for a piece on the high school summer program that my friend Mike F is holding in the lab.

 

 

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I met the kids about a week and a half ago.. It was so great seeing the progress they've made on their robots.. I walked in this morning and they were soldering, coding and cutting out things on the laser and printing on the 3d printer. I wish I had that kind of maker experience when I was oin high school ! Check out these cool devices they've built

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This guy is programmed to find other small robots and catch them in its jaws.. Hence it's name 'the lobster' . It worked just as advertised !
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Here's the components they cut out on the laser cutter
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Another team opted to print out some of their components of the 3d printer
 
 
 
 
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One creative guy even made his own metric ruler using the laser cutter… How cool is that ?
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I gotta say, seeing those kids working in this space we created did my heart good.were making a whole new crop of makers !

 

Speaking of makers.. The Champlain Maiker faire (sept 29th, shelbourne farms) is actively looking for makers of all types.. High tech, low tech, craft, food, music, you name it. The event is going to be awesome… We're even bringing in some surprise guests. Please check out http://champlainmakerfaire.org and sign up to be a maker… Or send it to friends who you think would enjoy showing their stuff..

 

Ok..gabes home with ice cream.. Gotta go

Niall, nite Sam

-me