Greetings from old town Ljubiana. We were in a business hotel in a shopping cnter last night …. we woke up thinkign that want what we neede for vacation.. so we got on the phoen and booked the most amazing AirB2B place right in the cnter of old cit Ljubiana. This is really one of my favorite cities on the planet

.. the people, architecture, food..e veryting is just so sweet.. I’m glad to be here with my girl

 

First order of biz after finding the new place was to go out for a run. We ran up the hill to see the Ljubiana castle awhich towers over the small city

nd the parks around it.

 

inside the castle there was this amazing museam of puppetry !

 

i just couldn’t get enough of the views down to the city from there

 

we climbed the observation tower for an even better look

 

they had a great way of identifying the peaks in the distance. YOu lined an image on the window up with a wire outside the tower.. then you could read the name of the peak and its height

 

we stopped in a cool chapel in the catse and this guy did our names in calligraphy 

 

next ddor there was a great gallery with an exhibit on transport through recent slovenian history.. and this interesting but strange art peice

 

the space itself was very beutiful.. part new, part old.. very cool angles , color and lighting. 

 

the next gallery had hostory of Ljubiana.. including a replica of the oldest manmade wheel which was found near here. 

there was a bust of Tito.. he was premier when  I was in (then) yugoslavia..1n 1979

 

we left the castle and walked/ran down in the rain..

we dried off then headed out again on adventure number 2.. we headed to the new Nikola Tesla exhibit at the exhibit hall

 

 

they had soem really great function demonstrations there

 

some of teslas actual otebooks where there !

 

even his birth ertificate !

it was a fantastic exhibit ! so glafd diane foudn it !

 

we stopped at a store on the way home to find an umbrella.. look at the news from home..

 

ok.. out of battery.. more tomorrow

nite all, note sam

-me

Today was the last day of the CROZ QED conference in Zadar.. It was a really great event.. I’m doing this on vacation.. but it turned out to be a really good set of work connections. THe theme was ‘failure’. and it gave me a ton to think of.. ]]

i said goodbye to my new QED friends

my good freind Andrej had driven   all the way down from Ljubuana to pick us up in Croatia.. We headed up the coas road around 2pm

 

First stop was this cool canyon national park.. cant recall the name.. but it was big with climbers

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there was a new rock climbing museum bult right into the mountain. it was just about to open

 

there were fossils evverywhere in the limestone

 

 

after that .. we set out orth again on the 4+ hours of beautiful winding road

 

we’re now in our hotel in Ljubiana.. had a great dinner with Andrej (Our Dinner with Andrej)

more adventures tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

Today was the start of the quality in engineering development (qed) conference that I was invited to speak at. This is the 10th year of the conference which is organized by the croatian company Croz. This years conference theme is ‘failure’.. That was a great basis for my keynote.. As even if i screwed up… I would have suceeded :-).. My talk was on success, failure and play and went well.. ..i attended some of the other sessions today that were in english and really enjoyed them. i enjoyed speaking with the folks at the conference.. 

Diane and i just came up from  the big dinner , ..they through.. Theres a party tonight.. But im still not feeling so great.. So were goimg to skip it. Ill see more of the folks tomorrow. Pretty sleepy…feels so good to be horizontal

More tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Got a few good selfies

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One guy had this cool robot !

greetings from Zadar., Croatia. day 2.. Diane and I had the whole day just to hang out. We rented bikes and rode about 12 miles in to the center of old Zadar .. It was a great ride..   We even saw a Dalmatian.. .. which is a breed of dog named for this part of the world

 

 

After fighting traffic .. boats cars, motorcycles and pedestrians, we found a place to lock our bikes outside the old city walls

 

the old city was packed wth people. .. no wonder.. it’s popular !

 

 

There was race today claled ‘Wings for life’… which was happening all over the world .. We came up to it just at the start of the race.. lots of people, lots of noise 

 

redbull was a sponsor.. so there was redbull everywhere !]

 

the city is really georgeous

one of it’s most famous sights.. or.. uh.. sunds.. is  a gigantic sea organ that moans harmoniously as the waves slap it..   here are folks sitting on it..

here’s a recording I made of it playing. Can you hear it ?

 

these holes have soemthign to do with the sound 

as do these

 

there was another solar scuplutre nearby.. could’t quite figure that out

 

we spent a few hours more checking out the town

 

the tower of shame !

 

we bought a bottle of slivovitz, the local plum brandy.. it fit right in the bikes water bottle carrier !

 

then back to the hotel for sunset

i have my bg talk tomorrow. Wish me luck !

The topic of the whole conference is on failure !

nite all, nite sam

-me