Yearly Archives: 2012

Wednesday night – trail prep

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11:30 at night at we just finished almost packing for our backpacking trip . That’s quite different from almost finished packing.. We still have about 2 tons of food to cram into our already too full packs… No worries.. We
Ll lea e the food here. O ur aim is to get dropped of in Stowe about 25 miles north of here and walk home on the long trail.. Should be fun !

As soon as I knocked off work at 6 pm I could feel vacation coming on.. All work thoughts are draining from my head .. We’ve been packing all evening.. Trying to sort out camping equipment , work out meals ands distribute weight in the packs… I think were ready.. We just need to get max packed .. He comes in by bus at 1 am this morning.


Two cool things did happen while we were packing.. First.. We were visited by a very curious grasshopper


Then chris came over to pick up the little arduino based submarine sound thingy I made for his upcoming show at the Flynndog. It will be inside either his big or little steam punk sub. It even has An adjustment for how fast you want it to pingggggg

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Ok, thats it for tonight.. Gotta get my pre-trail rest..
More from the trail tomorrow

Nite all, nite Sam
-me

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Tuesday night – comical

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Funny thing happened today.. not once, note twice, but three times, comics came to me to male a point about work.. they were funny. ironic and write to the point.. Here’s one.. that summed up part of my day..

 

One of the other cartoons was too obscure to share.. and the other too obscene.. but that’s not the point.. As int the first, all three were blasphemous, of course.. but they poked fun at sacred cows.. a wonderful thing to do when you want folks to start thinking critically again

i love it when the universe comes down and shakes you to tell you to stop taking yourself so seriously..

ok.. gotta sleep..
nite all, nite sam

ps.. the 2nd cartoon was about ‘rule 34’.. know what that is ?

Monday night – farsighted

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Argghhhhh.. Once again  I’ve lost my glasses. It’s the third pair I’ve lost.. And these aren’t cheap… I lost the first pair under a ple of debris on The Colony.. The second pair while on a run with gabe in Argentina and this last pair on a trail during a practice hike for our oncoming vacation. .. At least I l one them in fun ways..

I took off after work and went to the place that our optometrist recommended.. It took me an hour to try to find something suitably unfashionable.. I told them I was looking for ‘nerdy professor’.. Seems that’s not a popular style this year

Aside from the agony of picking style, the process was fun and high tech.. They actually use a camera to measure your eye spacing.. How cool is that ?

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On my way home from that adventure I heard two interesting pieces on the radio… The first was an interview with Chris Anderson, the creator and lead curator for the TED talks. He wrote a blog post the other day another how email is taking over our lives… He told a familiar story about people’s lives being overtaken by their inbox.. I know that happens for me.. Is spend several hours a day battling mine. He said soemthing that stuck with me.. That an email inbox was like a todo list for you that anyone can add to. Very very true. Anderson suggests the10 rules that he developed to combat the email scourge based on crowd sourced input .. Check them out here http://www.emailcharter.org/ I’d ask you what you thought of them..but that breaks one of his simple rules (no open ended questions 🙂

The othe news particle that hit me and saddened me ws learning that Jonah Lehrer, the author of the book on creativity called ‘Imagine.’ just resigned form the ny times after he admitted making p quotes about bob Dylan in his book…. What saddened me is that the book is full of good insights… And the author is a talented guy. these simple lies have caused this guys career to evaporate and his work to be discounted. Very sad…interesting to imagine what posses him to make stuff p..and interesting to hear how folks react…

Ok.. Time for bed.. O actually.. Time for latest guilty pleasure of an episode of ‘breaking bad’ … I love th e show.. A nerdy professor type gets to mess with chemicals… What’s not to low about that..

Night all, night Sam
-me

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Sunday afternoon – i seem to be a page

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Those reading this post probably know that I ran into a snag with Facebook on Thursday. I it 5000 Facebook friends .. and that’s the limit a private person can have on their profile. They’ve suggested that i  move my profile to a ‘Page’ like a company has.. As I mentioned a couple of days ago you have to tell them what kind of entity you are (animal, vegetable, mineral).. but none match my image of myself. One good suggestion came from my friend Dave.. he suggested I go for ‘teacher’ .. I used that because that’s what I one day aspire to be.

I spent the afternoon trying to make this conversion work.. it seems your profile pic is the only thing that is preserved in the conversion. You have to re-upload all your pictures and videos.. All comments and stuff go away (though I have them backed up).. and all your old friends get turned into ‘likes’ .. I’m really worried that I’m going to get lost in the process and folks won’t be able to find me anymore.. but still this is better than ‘unfriending’  people, I think. I started to go through to see if I could remove some folks from the list.. and couldn’t bring myself to do it.  My connections are so important to me..

We’ll see how this goes.. it may take me a few days to get my blog postings back on facebook,. etc. In the mean time, please let me know if you’re seeing the new Facebook page.. it’s here http://www.facebook.com/johncohnvt in case you cant find it.

 

wish me luck

nite all, nite sam

-me