I’ve spent all day easing out ..
easing out of work…
of projects..
of travel…
of phone calls..
I’m trying to get back to a quieter space for a little bit.. at least until after Thanksgiving..
I’ve been running too hard and not making enough differnce in the world as i’ve done it.
Time i think for some new thinking
but first …
.. oh, wait.. i’m thinking again..
nite all, nite sam
-me
I had a great opportunity today to help IBM with a social networking campaign they are working on.. it’s all about the concept of Play.. and it came along in parallel with and in harmony with my own focus on the subject. The campaign is on IBM’s Tumblr channel.. IBMblr. Today I was helping ntroduce the Play Machine.. A very cool physical computing machine created by makers Jeff and Rajeet. The device is hooked to statistics from the IBMblr site using the Tumblr API’s and some cool IBM technology including our SoftLayer Cloud, MQLite and NodeRed.
When someone ‘likes’ one of our pages on IBMblr .. the machine drops a few kernels of of popcorn are released down a chute into the path of a heat gun which causes them to pop !
When someone ‘shares’ one of the links on IBMblr a globe spins around and aims a laser on the location of the IP address they shared from !
if someone ‘reblogs’ one of the links on IBMblr then this crazy machine chops at itself with a sharpened (really, really sharp !) Adze..
and finally, if someone ‘follows’ us at IBMblr their Tumblr screen name is printed on one of these 6 retro thermal printers..
You can watch the machine here .. It’s really cool to try and one of those links and watch the video feed.
I also really enjoyed working with the Ogilvy folks who re working on the program.. they have all become good friends..
also appreciated the time with my friend Kevin from Astor place…
OK.. heading home now.. more later.
nite all, nite sam
-me
Nice drive down with max. First time visiting at his new place. I really like it . Great roomates, great vube. We went around the cornwr with abbott annd john. I had the best mac and cheese ive ever had (except dianes!)
Ok .. Gotta sleep
Nite all, nite sam
-me
you can learn so much by taking a shower. I had chills again tonight so I took a long, hot shower in the ‘kids’ bathroom. We have a very cool and very vinyl-y periodic table shower curtin
.. Did you know that there are 13 elements that only have 1 letter names ? Check them all out..
Other good things I noticed.. there are 12 elements who’s letters are symmetric when written top to bottom. Curiously.. soem of them have two letters. .. Let’s hear it for Holonium ! Highest two letter symmetric elements
good things to ponder..
nite all. nite sam
-me
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