Super busy day in Cambridge . Friends in from California, New York , Australia and Singapore . I took a break late afternoon to go over to mit to meet with New friends Gladynel and Hsin-Yu . They are working with (awesome) prof Vivienne S on a project about measuring neuro-degenerative diseases by measuring eye tracking . For the next two weeks I will measure how my eyes track it down for an iPad screen sometimes following the dot and sometimes going the opposite direction (which is wicked hard). I like doing this because they don’t have too many volunteers who are “my age”… It’s also a nice tribute to my dad died of Alzheimer’s. I am 1% scared that they’ll find something and 99% happy to be doing something to help detect this awful disease . Btw if you’re around mit They could use more volunteers quote of a certain age” eg > 60. Let me know if you’d like to help and I’ll connect you
Back to work my wonderful friend Daisy brought me some homemade papusasas . She’s from El Salvador… And these things are awesome. White corn flour super think tortillas. With cabbage slaw tomato sauce. They are so delicious. She is so kind and generous !
I took my friends Susana, Claire and vittorio to the airport and got there just in time To meet up with me burning my friend Andrew and his wife were just flying in from San Francisco.. It was a fun alignment for sure
Now I’m waiting in an airport lounge getting ready for my flight to Pittsburgh. I’m heading to CMU for a meeting. Should be fun .
Super busy day here in Cambridge… Meetings from 8 AM until about 10 PM… All good stuff. Lots of people in visiting so many fun contacts switches.
One Thing that was happening back in Vermont while I was here was a picnic at the generator to welcome my buddy Pol’s company Superplastic as members. Elliot had helped put on a falafel picnic. I was so bummed to have missed it… But luckily I was able to FaceTime in. Actually falafel over the phone is a lot easier to digest that the real thing
Just back from a busy day out at Massachusetts green High-performance computing center and Holyoke Massachusetts. I’m helping to bring up our Citori processor and do a few benchmarks to see how it’s doing. It’s a fast computer and performing well. It’s so much fun to actually be able to work with this thing after thinking about it for so long. My friend Simon came out to help us with a few mechanical things
Tonight Chris, Simon and I had dinner with our mutual friends Rodney and Laurie… Simon is an IBM executive and Rodney is professional skateboarder…
So fun connecting friends from such different places.
I have an early day tomorrow… So I’m headed to sleep.
I’m back down in Cambridge and have visitors from far away. Simon is here from San Francisco and Chris is here all the way from Brisbane. We had a productive day learning about each other’s work… Tonight I showed them around MIT. I took them on a pilgrimage to the site of my old dorm room which is now a park. What tour is complete without that?
