Long slow day… sharp wind and cold, like winter wants a second chance. Spent the day working around the house.. various household chores, wood,etc and did some geek chores as well. First cleaned my lab,
Then Got an iPhone app for work building successfully.. Colleagues in research built it.. my first attempt to learn SWIFT.. so far I like it !
Did some fix up on a circuit board for my light up glasses. These are the cool kind from Macetech that my good buddy Lisa turned me on to.. I’m working to get them tied in to our IoT cloud..
It’s a great open source design.. Enjoy seeing the care that went in to it
I also did some more testing of an IoT Blockchain device .. last night was the first time i used it in the car.. .. Tracked us driving downtown. A very simple demo, I know.. but it’s still cool to have data flowing all the way through
I love that my work and my play are getting more fused together
Busy day around the house.. Did manage to get a few minutes to package my asset tracker for our blockchain experiment.. it’s in the car now adding tracking info
it tracked us to Signal Kitchen for my buddy’s Duane’s 60th birthday party !
Sometimes i get so tied up in work and travel that i dont take note of important things that happen out in the world. Last night i realized that merle haggard had died. Merle was an anti hero to me .. He sang able ut ‘my generation’ that was 180degrees out of phase with the generation that roger daltery sang about and i lived in . When i heard merle had passed i thought about his song
“Okie From Muskogee”
We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee; We don’t take no trips on LSD We don’t burn no draft cards down on Main Street; We like livin’ right, and bein’ free.
I’m proud to be an Okie from Muskogee, A place where even squares can have a ball We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse, And white lightnin’s still the biggest thrill of all
We don’t make a party out of lovin’; We like holdin’ hands and pitchin’ woo; We don’t let our hair grow long and shaggy, Like the hippies out in San Francisco do.
And I’m proud to be an Okie from Muskogee, A place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse, And white lightnin’s still the biggest thrill of all.
Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear; Beads and Roman sandals won’t be seen. Football’s still the roughest thing on campus, And the kids here still respect the college dean.
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse, In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.
I then thought about my favorite anti-tribute from kinky friedman http://youtu.be/n__tAHR5ErM
I will spare you the lyrics here.. Bit its worth a listen…
I will say that i’m glad to live in a world that can create both of these gentlemen. 🙂
