Greetings from Porto Portugal. my first time in this beautiful country .. I took the afternoon off and caught a flight from Munich to meet Diane and Deb here.Its so nice to see them.. i’ve been missing home so much.. meeting them here brings a little home closer.
We have a great Airbnb near the old city, We just came back from a beautiful walk / dinner in the old section.. really cool buildings, people and food.

 

speaking of food.. check out the whole wall of sardines in the grocery down the street !

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!and salted cod everywhere @

here’s our building 

 

and here’s a glass of port like the other several I’ve just had.. (yum !) 

theres an open air market jsut down the road,. it’ll open tomorrow. we’ll checvk it out 

soem really interestign architecture

 

 

 

 

 

we stopped for octopus and mashed potatoes.. and great rose wine.. i remember we used to make fun of people who drank rose..this was great !

 

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we stopped by a very cool ‘essense’ store.. great pastes of all sorts of things\

 

 

 

 

 

 

and thats where my battery gave out..

more from here tomorrow..

boa noite !

nite all, note sam
-me

 

 

It’s late.. so I’ll make this quick.. I had a funny thing happen today.. Max called me during a meeting today with a funny problem. A friend of his was working on a project related to this wonderful piece which was first shown at Burning Man .

it turns out , the project had a hardware problme.. even tougher, the whole thing was in Toronto. They were asking Max to fly to toronto tonight to try to fix it. Max asked me if I knew anyoen who could solder in Toronto…

of course i do.. oen of my favorite solderer S. My buddy Markus who is

always

saving my you-know-what.

i connected max to markus .. and 3 hours later got a picture from markus with the message that all was well !

he is such a multipurpose friend !\\ok.. gotta sleep..
nite all, nite sam
-me

Happy new year everyone.. It’s officially Rosh Hashonah.. the head of the Jewish New Year.. Happy 5778 !
I’m alone in my small hotel room feeling thoughtful  and grateful for my family, friends and life…   Todays the day to begin reflecting on that.. Also.. I learn from wikipedia.. a day to refrain from creative work.. so.. I promise this short post will be boring.
one rule for the day is to heare the Shofar… I had to find that unusual sound,,. so here it is… Please take a listen… 

I hope its a sweet new ear for you and yours !

nite all, nite sam
-me

 

 

Busy day. Several VIP visits here at the Munich center which is always fun/hard work. It was an ‘inside’ day.. so not many pictures I can share here.. instead I’ll share two videos I got today with contributions from two different friends. 

The first is a great  a project IBM is doing to help protect endangered animals in South Africa. My good friend Markus V did a big part of the technical work for this.. .. just like he’s done a bunch of work for us here at the center.  He wrote the code that links the animal tracking colors to our Watson IoT network via long range low power LORA networks. He then gets that data and puts it on a real time map.. My hat (if I had one) goes off to him for his technical and creative super powers in helping make this happen. I’m very  proud to know him !

the second is a short video from Burning Man this year. It show’s ‘Rabid Transit’ the art car creation of my new friend Duane F who camped along side us.

 

I love having such creative friends !

nite all, nite sam

-me