Fun day  in Armonk. I was  a speaker at the New Distinguished Engineer and Distinguished Designer meeting . Diane stayed with me here in the hotel last night which was really nice. We got to sleep in . and then take a run around the pretty grounds here. Around 8 she took off back to Vermont. 

 

there were several good speakers on the agenda today in addition to me..

one surprise speaker was our CEO Ginni. She was really great . She’s so good in informal discussions 

 

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I gave a talk over at CHQ today.. and took advantage of my spare 10 min to go say hi to my old team there. Here are Kala. Jack, Karyn and Ronnie 

 

after the resto fo the speakers,We all went to a nice italian place in Ardlsey.. the town I lived in as a baby.. 

 

their speacialty is home made noodles made ina  parmesian wheel.. flamed with cognac.. It was really tasty !

 

great catching up with a zillion freinds at dinner.. I ddin’t take that many pictures.. Here’s one of my fried Trinette.. whom I just learned is the daughter of my freind Beth.. the only mother/daughter DE pair we’ve ever had in IBM. How cool is that ?!?

 

ok

ok. time for sleep

 

long travel day tomorrow. more from the road,

nite all. nite sam

-me

We just spent a really nice day hanging out with  Max and Becky in Brooklyn. We stayed at Beckys because there was a huge party last night at Max’s place (Happy Robot). ..

Today was  pleasantly slow.. We made it out of the house aroudn 11 for Brunch at Deep Woods.. Some kind of Cajon place..   I had blackeyed peas and grits.. nothing like you;’d really get in LA.. but tasty. 

 

I loved the names of the dishes

 

The big task for the day was to get Becky’s garden in.. I cut the grass with their funky electric mower. 

 

diane helped plant everything 

 

and we did some trellising in prep for some big growth  of these vines 

 

the placed looked better and better through the day . 

 

By around 7 we were hungry again.. we took a long walk to King Noodle and had another delicious meal.. 

It was so great hanging out with Max and Becky.. and Becky’s bothers dog Nimra.  Nice to spend time with them in their natural setting. such great people (and dog) 

 

We got on the road about 9pm for Armonk.. There now in the Learning Center..  my favorite hotel. 

nice to  have Diane with me 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Diane and I are down visiting Max and Backy in Brooklyn. We got here midday and spent a nice quite day hanging out wiht Max while Becky worked.  We took a great walk with Max , our visiting freind Wylla .. whol is vfrom Vermont bu lives in Santa fe..and is visiting NYC..   and Becky’s brother’s dog Nimra. 

It is fun for us seeing whats goign on in Brooklyn . 

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it’s full spring here already !

 

we walked by House of Yes where Becky has worked until recently.. aMax soemtimes does sound and lghts here. 

 

part of  House of Yes is the worlds best (ok NYC’s best) falalfel shop. Queen of falalfal 

 

they have my favorite sauce.. Green Schog.. .. or 

      סחוג as my freind Shmul spells it (Shmul.. I hope to take you up on your offer to go to a

class 

 

while we waited for food, we checked out the custume room at house of  Yes.. interestign titles !

from there we walked back.. admiring the great street art !

 

at home we dug intou our food.. Yum !

 

we took a quick visit over to maxes apaertment to pick up soem stuff.. 

 

hey.// i’m in a comic !

 

max made this cool lamp 

 

no end of crazy stuff in his house.. like the wodden stump thats grown aroudn a rock. 

 

here’s the apartment bird.. Chowder !

 

from there we headed to Max’s storage uint for a little organizing.. it was fun to help 

 

these claws are a famous part of one of max’s halloween costumes. (here’s the party he wore tham for http://johncohn.org/base/2010/10/25/sunday-night-nice-sized-party/) 

 

good progress !

 

we dropped soem stuff by maxs house.. and there  he showed us one of his roomates appendix !

 

 

tonight Max and becky had tickets to a cool puppet show… whih was sold out. Diane and I used the time to go visit our good freind Sho uptown. Sho’s got a very, amazingly wonderful appartment on W 94th. It’s like a zen jungle on the 17th floor.. really beutiful and thoughfully layed ut. 

 

We hung out and caught up with Sho. he’s doign great !

 

We all went out for Thai food 

 

then Sho walked us back to the train.. and we headed back to Brooklyn

 

Now back at Becklys.. and we’re heading to sleep..

more from the city tomorrow

 

nite all,. nite sam 

-me

 

I am sooooo proud of Gabriel..

Today he  defended his senior honors biochem thesis . His thesis is titled Cross Talk Between IKAROS and RUNX1 in Myeloid Leukemia . It describes the work he’s done over the last 2.5 years with Dr Jess Heath, a wonderful pediatric oncologist. The work explores  the role of two proteins in the evolution of  a particular form of leukemia .Here is the smiling (near) graduate wiht his momma and his advisor Jess. 

Gabe wore a periodic table sock and a beer sock today for good luck ..  .. and it worked ! We heard form Gabe and Jess that his defense went great ! Lots of tough questions.. and a great outcome !  

I’m so proud of the  work Gabe’s done. He’s  developed deep lab skills and learned so much in the process of doing some very important sceince. The report is really an amazing read. It outlines the experimental path that Dr. Heat, Gabe and his colleagues used to validate their hypothesis that these proteins play an important role in the mutations that cause this type of cancer. I’d love to  include the  paper here, but I can’t include the paper here because its part of a paper that is being published in a journal for the American hematological  Society which Gabe will be listed as a co-author.  When it comes out, I’ll blog on that too

 

On the way back to Gabes I found 20 Euro cents on the ground.. how strange is that ? 

also rna into my freinds paul and pal on the way 

 

then met up with friends John B. Lauren. John M , Newt and Duane in honor of John B (aka Gizo’s birthday !) . 

 

nice day.. 

so proud of Gabe !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me