SLow day today whcih was much needed. Muggy with rain.. perfct day for soem recreational coding. 

Managed to escape the keyboard late in the day to take a hike with Diane and the girls

Beautiful orange newts everywhere.. they love the wet !

 

the view from libby’s was amazing.. it looked like the forest primevil 

watched a big beaver swimming on the way back 

found this guy on our hause too

 

good day for critters !

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

just back from a great party at Rays’s . It marked her graduation, Jack’s son M’ s graduatio and Wendy’s brthday.. it was such a nicce gatjering !.

It was great  beign there to celebrate Raya’s accomplishemnts. SHe is one of the sweetest, kindest and most genuine people I’ve ever met. 

 

 

it was a perfect early summer party.. a little beer.. a little sangria.. a little rain.. 

 

here’s Jacks son M . He graduated from Clarkson last year. THats his dog Kuba 

 

I ran in to our friend Sandy’s daughter.. I recognized eher by her tribute tat to her dad kevin.l THere’s a memorial bench to him right at the top of Bolton.. and there it was on her back !

here are some Lilacs we braught from our yard. 

 

everyone was playing ‘toe janga’.. new and fun !

 

 

then time for Cake !!!

 

our hosts Jack and Wendy !

 

even the chip bowl matched wnedy 

 

ok. time for bed

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

I received 26 “we;ve updated our privacy policy’ emails in the last 3 days.. from online florists and iot providers, from hacker sites and credit cards, 3d printer manufacturers and auction sites.. I’ll bet you did as well. 

it’s because today is GDPR-eve. GDPR is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union. It addresses the export of personal data outside the EU.

GDPR regulates  persoanl data privacy and certain personal rights like the right to be forgotten. 

I think it’s a very good thing.. perhaps a little missconstructed.. but it’s heart is in the right place..

if a law can have a heart. 

I was goign to say soemthign funny abotu that.. but I seem to have forgotten it !

Happy GDPR everyone !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Fun and productive day at MIT.. I’m still working two jobs at this point and this was a busy day for my Munich role. I parked myself outside for a few hours  in a park that had once been my dorm, Bexley. As I left I saw something on the ground.. it was a rusty old key.. i’m pretty sure it was to one of the  old Bexley mailboxes just like I had  when I lived here in the late 1970’s.. Could this be my key ? .. why not ?!

 

I had a meeting today in the beutiful Stata center.. in ther aI came across this .. one of the original wire wrapped LISP machines !. I leanred on a machine like this. !

(DEFUN HELLO-WORLD ()
(PRINT (LIST ‘HELLO ‘WORLD)))

 

they had lots of other cool memorabelia there.. liek this photo from Doc Edgerton.. I took doc’s class and took a picture jsut like this. 

 

they also had soem of the cool ‘hacks’ (tech pranks) out on display.. like  this water fountain Hack .. (MIT is said to be like drinking from a fire hose) 

 

aroudn 7 I buaght take out dinenr and walked  the nearly 2 miles back to the hotel .. it was so nice by the river. 

 

ok.. gotta work on a talk.. more tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me