Worked around the house today which was nice. Managed to clean up a bad leak in our very spooky basement. That was satisfying.

You gay gay then I started working on a project. Has to do a project for chemistry involving photography. He wants to try to make deuaguerratypes… More properly tintypes, The old silver and white portraits that you see in old westerns. They use an emulsion made out of gelatin and silver nitrate. We're going to try and make them duringGabe's school break. One thing we needed was a large format camera. I went up in the attic to try to look for one. No luck But I did find one treasure…

My old HP 25 scientific calculator from high school. You all know I was a real nerd but never as much a nerd as I was in high school. My parents, who love me very much to this day, wanted me to have the best calculation devices. Be that sliderule or be that the newfangled electronic calculators. I remember my first calculator was something from Texas instrument… But when I saw the new Hewlett-Packards with their logs and exponents I couldn't stop salivating. I remember this thing got me through so many tests… It was a thing of beauty, perfect weight perfect balance perfect finger pressure on the buttons that we fit together like hand in glove. It's padded fake leather case fit snugly on my belt. What a fashion statement. (Actually I've never wear to calculator on my belt nor would I ever)

I found that thing buried in a box marked treasures it even still smelled the same. I showed it to Gabe proudly and he thought I was nuts.

, They don't Make them like that anymore

some how day quickly turned in to night… Gabe and diane I wondered upstairs to watch a horror movie and I sat downstairs programming C-sharp which was horrors enough for me.

alright time for bed, more tomorrow.

Night all, night Sam
–me

Ps. Large camera. If you have something like that say and old Polaroid or other large boxy camera with a big back please let me know.thanks

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Busy day… Lots of work stuff not much to report highlight of the day was driving an hour up to Shore AcresRestaurant in north hero for the goodbye dinner for the IBM smarter cities team.

They were nice enough to invite Diane and me to their final dinner.It was team member Robert's birthday today. The shore acres restaurant was a perfect setting for a party

I'll really miss these guys.

night all nite sam
– Me

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The high point of my day was going to City Hall to watch the smarter city's Team that has been here in Burlington readout to the mayor into the rest of the city. For the last three weeks they been talking to hundreds of people across Burlington and the surrounding area. They're looking at ways of reducing carbon especially techniques around Burlington's newly installed Smart meters.

There are six people on the team and there from all over the world from France from Brazil from Germany from the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and even as far away as Syracuse New York. It's been really great getting to know them. I can imagine how fun it was working on something like this for three solid weeks basically outside of the requirements of your existing job

It was interesting to see what they Presented today. They had chosen for different areas to focus on including Smart Meters, biomass, electric vehicles. What underpinned all of it was the notion of data integration. They Highlighted the need to collect data to form a good baseline for current power levels, the need to share that data both inside and outside of the city To break down interdepartmental barriers and the ability to share that data as open data with the community. That all resonated very much with me.

We were really proud to have them here in the city. I hope they enjoyed themselves as well.

While I was at Townhall I took a quick peek over at the Burlington firehouse Gallery to make sure the Floersch piece was still working well. There was a great group of people on the device as I walked over. It made me really happy.

Thanks to Collins work we can now login remotely to Extend and maintain the piece. It's pretty fun to be able to login and see people playing with it. Here's what it looks like From home. When people are playing pong

Ok.. Time for bed.. Moretomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me

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Standing outside late at night on a beautiful starry night. I walked outside because I needed to blog and since I do it verbally I believe it's unnerving for the family to hear me speaking to no one in particular. Well I guess I'm speaking to you

Good busy day today nothing special to report. the big news was that I migrated my hard disk today on my new computer to one of those fancy solid-state discs. That's not that newsworthy On its own but migrating a hard disk of any sort is kind of like doing a personal inventory. In the course of deciding what I had to move and what I could leave behind I had to go through hundreds know maybe even thousands of pictures personal letters records receipts have started code projects crash log files etc. etc. etc.

It's kind of like a personal archaeological dig… The bits and pieces of data are kind of shadow of what you might've been doing at any particular point in time. What's interesting is this particular disc has been migrated on let me think maybe five machines so it goes back at least about 10 years in those 10 years so much as happened. I wonder about future generations do you through all of our digital detritus and trying to make sense of our lives (as if they made sense now.)

Well I'm now comfortably on the other side of that migration and very happy with the speed of my new technology. I now have at least three copies of my last 10 years of my life and I'm projecting forward to some archaeologists or data archaeologist in the future that I hope you enjoy going through it at least as much as I did 🙂

Night all, night sam
–me

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