Worked this mornign and this evening.. but took the middle of the day off to hike lake louise with Diane.. I htink we did about 12 miles.  It’s beutiful Glacial lake about an hour north of Banff.

 

it was plenty hot today.. but there was still soem snow !

 

we stopped at one of the tea hosese in the valley of 6 glaciers for a drink of water and soem choclate cake !]

 

we got homearound 4.. and I started working again until our TED party tonight at the Firmont.. We said bye to all our new TED freinds . ok.. gotta sleep now.. More tomorrow !

 

so glad Diane is here with me !

-note all. nite sam

-me

Another day at TED Sumit in Banff.. I managed to get in a full day of regular work meetings and attend a couple of great talks.. here. One great comment from the Author Daniel Pink about how to argue… “talk light you’re right, listen like you’re wrong”. A big theme today was about listening.. and tryign to unsderstand the other side of a story. Lots of discussion around that  on Brexit.. clearly if more th.. an half of the folks in the UK beleive it. they cant all be crazy

woke today at 5 with a view of my home made airconditioner. The room is airless, so we found a way to lash a fan to the o e window.. I used my lab coat to keep out soem of the light.. kinda pretty !

 

went for a good early moring run

 

kept runnign into freind of freinds today.. Here’s Gerry.. great guy.. freind of my friend Andy’s 

 

dinner tonight was a cowboy thing.. lots of fun. glad diane could come with me !

ok.. all for now.. gotta sleep

more tomorrow

 

nite all.nite sam

-me

 

Had a very, very fun and ineresting day out here at the TED summit in Banff.. andmanaged to get in a retty full day of day job as well.. My part in the TED event was to run a seesion called “”BWA-HA-HA’.. unleashingyourinner madsceintist..

we had about 45 (more ?) participatns fro the ted communit. The task was simple.. move some fire across the room. They had 40 minutes and a pile of junk inclunding a chep RC card. It went really really well. som much fun chaos.. so many great ideas !.

 

these guys had a pretty serious fire.. i had to use the fire extinguisher.. which was wicked fun !

 

 

 

ooops another fire !

 

3 out of the 6 teams opted not to use the rc car.. which was fascinating..  Every team got their thing to work one way or antoher !

the satff here at TED was so helpfu.. they even cleaned up !>. an hour later, our mess looked like this

 

afterwrds I got to go to teh afternoon session.. SOme good talks on social issues.. Interupted with soem end of the quarter day job stuff… 

 

walkign home I saw this big guy 

 

then diane and I went for A 3.5 mile run.. then decided to hike 5.5 km of sulfer mountain 

 

on the way we encountered this guy 

 

sulfer moutnin was a fun and tough walk up.. we made it up in 2 hours.. thought the guide said 3.

 

at the top was the old weather station and the site of the old cosmic ray lab

 

 

the views were amazing up there !

 

now back at home.. I invented a way to link our rooms portable fan to the window over the door.. feels so good.. hole  the cables lastthe night !ok.. falling asleep here.. more tomorrow  !

ntite all, nite sam

-me

i folks.. greetings again from Banff. I’m heere to present a workshopp at the TED sumit. So far it’s been a pretty coolevent. Diane and I sepnt 4 hours today setting up for my worksho tomorrow. So glad she’s here with me..

the place is beutiful.. .. it’s a totaly tourist town like Stowe. beutiful surroundins with a chewy, honky-tonk center…\

lots pf great .. but expensive resturaunts here

 

met this cool guy on n the street.. we agreed we’re from ‘bastard sons of santa ‘

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random peope pon the street came up to tell us they’d been naughty

 

Diane and I escorted them to safety

 

today diane and Iclimbed up tunnell moutnia .. there’s no tunnel in it.. thats why it’s called tunnel mountian 

 

around 4, diane and I headed over to the TED summit to get set up. lots of amazing people !

heres’ the room I’m in tomorrow

 

at the coctail recemption . lots of beautiful folks !

 

9:30 pm in banff

 

ok.. i have a big day tomorrow. better sleep !

nite all. nite sam

-me