Monthly Archives: February 2015

Thursday night – Catnap

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Busy day in Armonk.. Good meetings.. lots of interesting ideas.. By late afternoon i was feeling the 4:00 AM alarm I had to set this morning… not many folks were around so I found a friends desk, crawled underneath it and took a nap.. not sure that happens much at headquarters.. but I needed the rest.

Around 8:00 i drove down to brooklyn to meet up with max. He and his housemates have a potluck every thursday. and i’d never been. it was really  great.. wonderful people, wonderful food.

We sat around after dinner and played a crazy strategy game called mafia.. turns out that son max was the killer ! Who knew ?!?!

I love getting to see max in his natural settling like this.. he’s such a good guy..

ok.. early morning meetings tomorrow.. already 1:30/ gotta sleep. Nite all, nite sam

-me

Wednesday night – Comfort food

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26 degrees this afternoon.. I had calls all day but managed to take a couple of them as I skieed around the yard a little. I just had to get the dogs outside after our long deep freeze. at 26 degrees I almost felt like getting my bathing suit on…

Diana’s back home after a fun trip .. we were all glad to see here. We celebrated with a box of macaroni and cheese and a caesar sale. . a rare guilty pleasure.. YUM !

Simple things like that in life are so good.

So is sleep.. so thats what I’m gonna do next. More tomorrow

-nite all. nite sam

-me

 

Tuesday night – Stir Crazy

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Long hard day .. many things going on at work… .. it was -15 when I woke.. didn’t realize it was warm (15 above !) by the afternoon.. but didn’t remember to go outside even once … .. come to think of it.. we haven’t been inside for several days..

The dogs and I are all going stir crazy !

I had to take a break late in the day.. i did some work on Flourish…. which Olivia helped me remotely test.. (Thanks Olivia !)

Then we had a meeting at ECHO to start talking about the new light project. Here it is announcing the new ‘CHAMPFEST’ show

We just announced a wonderful new collaboration with Google who is graciously funding us to enhance and use the new lighting to  interpret data from the lake .

Tonight our fearless leader Travis, Nick, Matt and I talked about our next application for the door.. I don’t want to reveal it til we’re done..  butt he job tonight was finding a way to feed streaming video into the 13,000 LED’s in an easy. code friendly way. Thanks to some clever thinking on the part of Matt.. the new echo intern, we got a solution running before the end of the night !

That, by the way, is a picture of a red rock on a kids dark blue sweater as streamed from a  mobile phone.. more on why later.. stay tuned !

ok.. my last meeting of the day has just ended and it’s only 12:30 AM.. time for sleep.

nite all, nite sam

-me

Monday night – three dog night

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looks like another three dog night. It’s already -12. I woke this morning to -25F.. (thats thermometer temp.. not counting for the stiff breeze)..

The dogs and I slept huddled next to the wood stove.. It was cozy and fun. .

I was glad we slept downstairs.. here’s what the temp was upstairs inside.. .. gotta love wood heat 🙂

Monday night - three dog night

I had a long productive day in the house alone.. then around 3:30 started heading to dartmouth. it was a nice one hour drive. I gave a talk on reinvention there

to the student IEEE chapter.. it was a good showing

Now ready to stoke the fire and pile under every blanket I can find..

nite all, nite sam

-me