I’m down at MIT for a meeting with students and professors.. Had a chance to walk the campus at night. It struck me i was just settling  in here  exactly  40 years ago !

 

here’s vasser street 

 

one of my old lecture halls.. (these folks are here for the opeing of the IBM MIT AI center !) 

 

various MIT buildings at night 

 

green building (i had a green scholarship when I was here.. still appreciate it !) 

 

statis building 

 

dreyfuss

 

nerding out 

 

the place was swarmign with bunnies.. that seems new !

 

the infinite corridor 

 

wjhere my calc classes were 

 

this mural was here when i was !

 

under the dome 

 

in front of the student center 

 

77 mass ave 

 

this is where my dorm was !

 

left a samstone there 

 

student center 

 

kresge  

ok.. time for bed !.. more tomorrow

nite sam , nite all,

-me

Just back from a great VASE annual meeting . The high point of the night was a talk by dr Martine Rothblatt the founder of Sirius satellite radio .. and it turns out many other remarkable things . Her talk was on the theme of CQLD : curiosity, question, love, do.
Really amazing stories.

I fell asleep on the couch as soon as I got home so it’s a little too late to write about it now.. I promise to tomorrow

Gotta drive early tomorrow. So going to sleep now

Nite all, nite Sam
-me

Interesting day.. completely busy for work from 7 am till 8 pm.. with  three very differnt drop in visitors.. 

 

1. first our friend James came by.. he’s just returned from a long trip that included watching the eclipse in Tennessee .., realiuzing at that moment he had to go to  Hawaii, spending time there.. and now coming back. He has to decide if eh wants to move to hawaii.. he came over to talk about that 
2. then Matt .. a very nice and hopeful MIT applicant came by for an interview. I’m one of 2  MIT Education Council members in the state.. so If you’re a kid who wants to go to MIT.. there’s a 50/50 chance I need to interview you first. Matt was really an interesting and fun kid to talk  to ..   he wants to study creative writing at MIT.. which is a surprisingly good idea
3. Finally, our old friend Brenden came by to catch up. Brendan went  to MMU between Sam and Max .. he’s now living in Chattanooga and is doing natural gas extraction from municipal waste. It’s an amazing process. and he  and his biz partner have a really solid plan.. He tells me theres enough RNG (renewable natural gas) to run 10’s of thousands of households…. and its financially viable ! Amazing !

Funny to have all these folks dropping by in a single day.. !  the world is an interesting place !

 

nite all. nite sam

-me

woke at 5am and got on the road by 6 to head home from endicott. It was warm muggy and rainy  the whole way.. Nice time with Diane in the car.. Leaves were slowly changing.. but so late.. i cant recall this many green leaves this late in the year..   A few breaks of sun gave us some small rainbows. 

 

we were home by noon.. so decided  to take the dogs out for a longish hike in the unseasonably warm weather.. we headed up to the history trail at little river a few mikes down route 2.   Looks liek they have bears too.. (ours has been gone for a while) 

 

it was a perfect day for a hike.. but it was more like mid summer than fall. Normally this weekend would be peak foliage anbd cool .. instead it was mostly green and about 70 degrees ! 

 

we love seeing the history signs spread around this 4 mile trail.. .. we always say ‘hi’ to Almeron and Lutheria 

 

there’s is the only building still standing on Ricker Mountain. 

 

 

hard ot imagine these hills were once cleared and populated.. .. there were even cars up here in the early 20’s 

 

i love walkign these old town roads that were last used almost 100 years ago.. ]

 

soem leaves near the top were changing.. but still it was earily green for this time of year.. what does it mean ? ]

 

we checked on the 27 foot deep well we always see.. 

 

and we stopped by one of the ancient cemeteries up in the woods. 

 

here’s the old foundation for a silo 

 

foudn an inchworm on one of the signs .. 

 

nice juxtaposition 

 

 

we stopped by the dam on the way out.. 

really nice day. 

now too sleepy to stay awake.. more tomorrow

nite all. nite sam

-me