Greetings from uberlingen Germany. My friend Travis, Mark, Norma and Deanna down here visiting our friend Nickolas the weekend. It’s been a very busy week here in Munich… And we all could use some rest and relaxation. Is very kind of Nicholas to invite us to his hometown. In line we’re all staying in a beautiful little hotel in sight of the Bodensee. We haven’t seen it in daylight but Travis and I just took a walk along the lake … And it looks Beautiful… I’ll send some pictures in the daylight tomorrow. But here’s what it looks like by night
One funny thing… We came across a whole bunch of people jumping in the lake naked… Too cold for me to do that
Many places have festivals to celibrate a particular favorites.. I remember the Rose fest In Tyler Tx the orrange fest.. , the Tzchilifest in Chapel Hill T, even the garlic fest in Gilroy, Ca .. In Vt we have Ramp (a native onion) fest, ..
Munich here even famosly has Octoberfest.. (in Spetember).. but no one ever told me abotu Spargelfest.. it ceibrates these giant white asparguses.. (asparagi ?) that becoem available about now.. it semems. THey are delicious spears abotu 10 incehes in lenght and 3/4 inch around.. they have the consistancy of a soft carrot… and the tase if… welll.. asparagus.. They out it in everything these weeks,, in soupo, salad, pasta, fish, meat etc.. hard to miss.. if you wanted to miss.. but its so delicious…
it does have the … er….normal side effects of eating asparagus.. but your in such good company , it hardly matters…
lets hear it for asparagus.. i think i’ll have soem for breakfast !!!!
Just back in my hotel at 1 AM after a day that began at 7AM.. jam packed with meetings. talks, calls…planning sessions.. and lots and lots of coffee.. Enjoying myself here in Germany and missing home very much at the same time..
Looking through my email before sleep I saw that IBM just went public with the work we’re doing with Sesame street. My sister division , Watson Education will be applying Watson cognitive computing to helping make bert and ernie better teachers.. .. I love that fact that we’re using a system that learns to help kids learn better.. How cool is that ?
Congrats to the team for making this happen !
Nice appearances by my boss Harriet and friend Rob ! Thanks for making this happen !
nite all, note sam
-me
Dry martini… what an oxymoron.. I just got talked into a drinking a dry martini by my freinds mark, david and norma.. it got me thinking about the word ‘dry’. there’s nothing dry about it.. it is quite wet.. and it tastes like chemicals.. but very pleasing chemicals.
I was taught that dry means very little vermouth.. .. mark told us a story that the perfect dry martini is made by getting the vermouth just near enough to the glass that the light from the sun shines through the vermouth on to the gin…
which reminds me.. this is actually my second martini this week.. and .. this year .. i beleive.. the second one was made with vodka.. which tases like paint thinner… the first was made with gin.. which tastes to me like more expensive paint thinner..
I don’t think I was programmed to drink gronwn up drinks like this.. give me a heady topper any day..
ok.. very late and I need to sleep…
oh.. one cool think I just heard form my freind Sam that the Play! campaing that I did with Ogilvy last fall jsut won a Webby Award for best social campaign for education and discovery ! The same campaign won a bronze lion at Cannes .. . congrats to my freinds at Ogilvy for doign soem thing very. very cool.. keep playing !!!
