Monthly Archives: April 2015

Friday night – my favorite band

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Home tonight after a long week away.. talking to so many folks  . Lats event of the day was a talk at the IEEE Region 1 student conference at UVM.. great group of folks..  My talker is now tired.. i am not going to say anything until tomorrow.

Acer the UMVM event, Diane picked me out and took me for some art therapy.. we went and sa a friends very interesting art opening.. .. the place was packed with friends from Richmond.. kinda cool when you think we were all gathered about 20 miles from hime.

 

from there we went to Arts Riot for a truly wonderful show.. it was ‘Sessions Americana with Anis Mitchell sitting in. I’d never heard of Sessions Americana’.. but they are mt new favorite band.. at least for tonight. I’m a huge americana fan.. Americana.. whats that ? I describe it as country meets folk with occasional profanity.. ..  it’s what I grew up on ..

 

tonights sow was amazing.. many originals.. many covers including graham parsons..whom I’v even thinkign of all week// also a great version of Ian Andersons’ ‘skating away’

I was sitting there getting in to the music.. and realized that any live music is my favorite music at the moment.. sort of like heer goggles for my ears.. i can’t remember ever enjoying music so much.. which I’m sure I have.. isn’t that wonderful ?

 

now home.. helping max tune theEEL .. it’s going out with Mike on a two week tour. .. gotta dial it in again

 

 

man.. i’mbeat.. gott go to sleep..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Thursday night – happy IoTDay

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Today the world celibrated IotDay . Many of us spent the day speaking, tweeting , blogging and hacking IoT stuff.   The idea was to raise awareness of the Internet of Things (as if that was needed). IBM had some big announcements around the topic.. which was very cool.

I spent a good part of the day at the IBM Palisades site attending a Technical Leadership Exchange. I did the keynote there which was very fun. I saw so many old friends.. and met some very cool new people .

 

 

 

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I wore the new jerry garcia tie that gave gave me today.. i guess its a lucky tie since my talk went pretty well

Max gave me a tie with a squid on it.. next time, i’m going to try that !

 

ok. very late.. gotta sleep.

nite sam, nite all

-me

 

Wednesday night – commercial success

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I got word this week that i had 3 seconds of fame coming  in an IBM commercial that is airing on the Masters this week. If you don’t blink, you can see my former self from about second 31 to 33..

I remember exactly what I was thinking at this point .. I was saying to myself ‘Again ?’.. this being after 32 takes (if memory serves) of the full 30 second commercial which was filmed in Grand central station. You can see a little of the ‘making of’ here

 

Nice memories..

nite all nite sam

-me

Tuesday night – Eating Watson

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Nice quiet night on my own in the IBM Learning center.. I ordered a sandwich that was designed by our Watson cognitive computer. it had lobster, olives, lemon and red peppers. It was truly delicious..   When computers can design food like that, it makes me look forward to the future

In the words of Ken Jennings: I for one welcome our new computer overlords.

nite all nite sam

-me

 

ps. my rental car is a ‘blue nissan versa’ just like Hero’s care in Heros !!! Save the cheerleader, save the world !