On my drive home from Boston this evening I heard that actor Peter Mayhew had died… He had played Chewbacca and most of the Star Wars movies… My favorite character of any movie ever…

As soon as I heard I did was probably most people did

Fly high chewy

Thanks for the memories!

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Busy day in Cambridge… We had a very interesting set of visitors from Germany. Herr Doktor Tholken, The German ambassador for technology was visiting our lab. He is the interface for his country to the world of technology. How amazing is that for a job? He and his colleagues were great to spend time with… I hope we can find something cool to do with them

Didier and Bassett are in his colleagues actually returned late in the day for our research open house. The open house was so great… All of our researchers including some of our colleagues from Yorktown were there with their MIT counterparts showing the public and each other but they were up to. It was so well done!

Later this evening my friends Akash, my new friend Felix and my good friend Jane from Vermont who is down for a conference all went out for dinner… On the way we checked out the AR paintings in the basement

After dinner I walked back over the beautiful Rebuilt Longfellow Bridge

That’s all I can stay awake for now… More in the morning!

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Greetings from Cambridge. The High Point of today was the VASE (Never mind Academy of science and engineering) spring meeting. For the last couple of years we’ve held it in the state house.

We invited the students and teachers we’ve helped through our vase small equipment grants and host grants. This year we had several student groups and teachers showing everything from robots to sustainable biology, We invited state legislatures to come and visit with the students. It was so much fun to see the kid showing off.

It felt really good that we were able to help them build their interest in science and tech

Night all, night Sam

-me