Yearly Archives: 2015

Saturday night – Happy birthday Generator

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Fantastic day at Generator today as we celebrated our 1 year anniversary !..

It started at 8:30 when I helped my good buddy Karen teach about 11 women how to program arduino light up headbands. It was so much fun working with these folks.. they are good makers. At the beginning nine had ever touched a micro controller or soldered.. By the end, all had working headbands and running code @

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Around 4, things started up for the parts, here are 300 cupcakes arraanged in our logo.. A labor of love

 

 

THer was food and drink everywhere !

 

 

i was lit up for the event.. so got lots of selfies.. here are a very few.. including this one , with jules, my ice cream helper

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we made about 5 gallons of ice cream with liquid nitrogen.. it was a crownd pleaser.. ..

 

Ran into so many friends.. including my old friend megan and her boyfriend. 

 

there were speeches from all sorts of folks including board members, M and Champlain folks, city folks including Mayor Miro

 

All in all we had 500 folks by about 3/4 through.. I’m going to guess our total was about 600 ..

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by 8 PM things were winding down and we were there to clean up the mess.. Believe it or not, I had an important work call tonight.. so I listened while I hosed chocolate ice cream goo off of everything I owned

 

at the end of the night friend matt custom made me a shirt !

as I shuffled my stuff off to the car I looked up and saw venus..  what a pretty universe we have.. no ?

man.. busy day.. ready for sleep.. more tomorrow..

nite all nite sam

-me

 

Friday night – all Smilie !

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Lots going on at work these days.. but still managed to slip out at lunch and do a science show for the kids at Smilie School in Bolton. Despite this being the third closest school to my ouse, I’ve never done a show there. There were about 65 of the coolest kindergartner through 4th graders I’ve seen in a long time.. They were all wearing there ‘reading is a science’  Einstein shirts .. and they even gave me one !!!

Thanks smilie for making me all smiley !

 

nite all, nite sam

-m

Wednesday night – no longer onboard

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Tonight was my last ECHO board meeting after 6 years of serving. It’s been an honor to be on ECHO’s board. I’ve learned tons and made a bunch of new friends all passionate about science education. I’ve learned about what it takes to run a large org like that.. budgets, staffing, and of course the science outreach and lake stewardship that is our mission.

 

We had a good meeting tonight, then a short ceremony to welcome the new board members and thank those of us stepping down.. definitely bitter sweet. I’ll miss these folks, but plan on staying involved in the science projects that spin out of there.. Next focus is on the google grant we got for the lights. That should be fun..

Thanks ECHO ! Best of luck tot eh board going forward !

nite all, nite sam !

-me

Tuesday night – change of seasoning

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We are not just changing seasons  we’re changing seasoning . As Spring arrives, Diane and I are doing the Colorado Cleanse..  A two week ayruvedic  dietary regime.. where you start with low fat, non dairy, non  wheat ,food for a week .then a week of  khitchdee .. rice and mung beans dahl  three meals a day, then a return to the low fat.   We’re in the khitchdee period right now and I’m adjusting to the cool indian spices in that.. turmeric , coriander, mustard.. it’s nice and exotic.. Not part of our normal pallet of flavors. I enjoy the change up… just like I’m enjoying the change of the weather outside..

(but I do miss chocolate !)

nite all, nite sam

-me