Friday night – early xmas

Busy day… broke for lunch at 2 to have lunch with my freind Ron. Got out of the car.. and…

did I hear that right ?! .. I did !  … christmas carols coming from the outdoor mall speakers !

thats a new record for early !!!

 

got to Mexicali’s and was happily surprised to find not only Ron but orur good buddy David.. we had a great luch catching up aout all sorts of things> 3d prining, complex analysis, family, horses, hiking, teaching ,old bosses , algorythms, students , engagements , beer (!)

 

left from there and filled up my dewer with liguid nitrogen for some planned mischief on Sunday witht eh ski and snowbaord thanksgiving dinner at our house.. should be fun.. !

 

ok.. only 8:30. but neither of us can stay awake !

nite all nite sam

-me

Thursday night – I voted !

 

I’m gonna be traveling next week so i took the time to go to the town office today to vote

i can never go in there without remembering that the bell on top once hung in our house .. it even says ‘jonesville academy’

 

i brought all my id in case i needed  to identify myself.. .. no need there.. Linda, the town clrek greeted me by saying ‘hi john’

i felt cool holding the ballot !

 

here’s the votieng booth !

 

i took the process of voting very seriously .. i thought of every vote carefully before i filled in the little dot.   I checked it 3 times to make sure i hadn’t screwed up .

this is serious business folks.. please vote !!!!

nite all,nite sam

-me

Wednesday night – home !`

Diane and I just got home from a really nice mixed vaca/wrok trip to Norway. It was really great gettign away and exploring Oslo. We saw soem great scenery, met some  wonderful people and ate some strange and good food. It’s so nice travlign with Diane.. it makes it so much more fun to travel.

Fight hoem today was long.. about 17 hours.. and beleive it or not..t hat was not enough time to catch up from two days of being about 80% off email .. yikes.

 

ok. jet lag kicking in.. more tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

 

tuesday night – sushi sucess

Last day in Norqway. I did a keynote at a very interestign Client Connect event here in Oslo. Moood and conetnet were very. very good !. I really enjoyed talking to all the clients and the other ibmers.. we had over 800 folks !

 

it began with my new friend THomas reading ‘the hungry,hungry cattepiller’ using teh Watson driven Campfire app. it was SO cool !

my keynote was on a hybred of reinvention, play and iot.. i had to rewrite it all last night at the request of the organizers.. who suddenly wanted soemthing more ‘playfull’.. it went very well

 

the rest of the day was cool conversations with clients and journalists

 

 

I finally got to meet my email friend Asu

 

and her creation Oluv

the  other keynote was colorblind Neil H.. who has an antennae screwed into his head that allows him to ‘hear’ colors.

he was quite interesting.. hard to describe.. .. maybe best seen here

i love the idea of extending our senses like this.. .. kinda unorthodox.. but so cool !

 

then.. diane and I went out for sushi… for the third time during this visit.. and it was superb.. thats important because the time we went to eat sushi in Stavanger in 1985 we both got soem sort of neurotoxin.. it made our jaws and chests tight.. we throught we were goners.. but it was still delicious.

 

i’d say sushi was a success this time !

ok.. early flight.. and interesting movie.. gotta go

nite all. nite sam

-me