Monthly Archives: December 2012

Friday night – shock

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Sitting here miles away and feeling the tremors from the tragedy in Connecticut. Shock, anger, sadness, grief, frustration and the senseless nature of what happened. Were feeling The collective reaction of something so unimaginable that you can’t now help but imagine it.
Like everyone else.. Our hearts go out now to the kids, the parents, and the community.. For now and the hours, days …years and lifetime ahead i wish them all peace and support. Although we’ll never be able to predict or prevent all bad things from happening, i hope that in the days ahead we can all come together and think rationally what we can do to heal and do what we can to address the stuff in our culture that sparks tragedies like this..

Yu know .. Reading what i just wrote.. I realize that lots of folks will be thinking and writing like that now… Maybe it doesn’t help.. But i think theres great power in us all sending love to those folks down in Ct who need it very much right now…

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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Thursday night – That’s brilliant

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Just back from the 2nd annual thats brilliant event at echo.. it was… well, brilliant. Smaller than last year and more focused. Jerome and crew had curated the event well. The topic was winter inventions. there were about 9 inventors there with everything from ski bindings to wings, sleds to ski bikes and even a lawn mower for ice.. It was a great group of people

The highway department was there with their state of the art brine sprayer…  less than half the slat and more effective .  pretty cool and comfy, too

check out all these controls.

the voodo balance board folks were there

this guy built bikes for snow

a musher sans dogs

here’s the ice mower.. its for hokey rinks, how cool is that ?

there were even a couple of talks.. this one was on leg injuries due to ski bindings..

that speakers name was carl ettlinger.. that’s my mom’s maiden name !.. No relation though.. at least that we could find.

one guy was there with snow wings. i kept thinking.. ‘i should get those for sam’.. sigh..

this guy made a cool one handed bnding device.

Once again.. great to see the creative minds in Vermont come out to play…

OK.. all for now..

nite all, nite sam

-me

wednesday night – dozen day

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12/12/12  ..I don’t know why 12 feels comfortable, but it does. .  all day I was thinking of things that come in dozens.. like eggs… and ..bagels and doughnuts.. and .. um..what else … . bakers ?      At dinner Gabe made the sobering pronouncement that  this is the last triple date in our life time.. we had 01/01/01  .. 02/02/02, 03/03/03, …. 11/11/11 (my fave) .. and now 12/12/12  .. but.. alas.. the next go round on that is nearly 100 years from now and I plan on being out of town.. There’s nothing like that little drop of mortality to season your delicious (in our case) dinner of tortellini and miso soup..

As I chewed my 12 noodles and contemplated the cosmos I thought about how numbers rule my life.. I get superstitious.. both good and bad .. on certain numbers. I won’t drink from a glass  unless it’s been filled 3 times..In fact I do many things in threes especially when under stress..  I am afraid of the number 709.. but love the time 911 (my lucky number.. go figure) .. 411 means someones thinking of me.. and 420.. well…. uh….  i like that too .

For what its worth.. this conversation reminds me a logarithmic clock I created a few years back.. (windows only.. I’m afraid)

oops.. gotta go to a late night work call..

Before I do.. let me remind folks about Echo’s 2nd annual ‘That’s Brilliant ‘ event tomorrow night. This years theme is inventions for winter.. Come check it out !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Tuesday night – Social Notworking

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Hmmmm.. i must have hit the wrong button a few weeks ago because all of a sudden I’m getting something called ‘endorsements’ from lots of the folks I know in Linkedin.. I have a bazillion connections in Linkedin.. but I don’t know why folks would all of a sudden start love bombing me with what they think i’m supposed to be good at. I must have leaned on the wrong button.

the notes come in and say something like

Congratulations! Your connection, XXXX , has endorsed you for the following new skills & expertise:

Hygiene

Kindness to reptiles

Gilligan’s island trivia

Well.. they’re not actually that strange.. but they might as well be..   Several folks have told me i’m good at project management.. HA !.. I can’t even plan my own breakfast. I’ve been anointed with skills in computer languages I’ don’t know and computer architecture components I haven’t though of since I was in college.

Its fun and flattering to see what folks think you know.. at the same time its kind of weird when folks say you’re good at that you yourself know that you’re not..

I think this points out a problem with social networking that I’ve been thinking of lately..it’s  that just because lots of people on the web think somethings true doesn’t make it true.  .

If we’re goign to do this, can we try to attribute some really interesting skills to each other like  ‘speaks to snakes’ .. or ‘glows in dark’ ,.

now t looks like i need to go brush up on my Perl (im a python man myself)

nite all, nite sam