Diane, Gabe and I worked around Gabe’s house yesterday sorting and packing. By the end of the day we have most of the upstairs and basement packed into suitcases, duffles and shipping boxes. This is going pretty well so far. We’ll make one more trip out here in December to ferry stuff back to BT .. and then gabe will drive with Nova back east.
we took a break this evening after Gabe’s Mandolin lesson. Gabe picked Biane, me and Seans up and took us to a pub Moon and Sixpence where we got to meet his Mandolin teacher Rene. and Renes friend Jeff. Rene is anaamazing musican.. he can play anything.. his main instrument is guitar…. thoguh hes a great mandolin teacher. With Rene’s help Gabe is gettign so good ! Jeff is a long time (he’s 82) year old guitar maker.. he makes 1-2 guitars at a time, His instruments are sought after all aroudn the world and go for $20k-$40k.. It was an honor meeting both of them
Moon and Sixpence was great too.. really felt like an english pub. We had Fish and Chips and a ploughmans .. and got to hear an amazing fiddler / guitar duo
lots more of the same today.. tons of boxes, sorting a zillion things.. only picture from teh day was Gabe emptying his rock tumbler.. cant beelive Ididnt take more pictures !
tomorrow we go to the dup and to good will. it will fwewl good to get rid of so much stuff ! nite all, nite –me
Woke up early and hung out at Billy and Seans.. Berto and Andy were the only ones up. Nice catching up with Berto
Fun seeing Billy’s projects.. Here’s his skeleton halloween zoetrope in pieces. I helped wiht the motor driver stuff. .. fun and creepy !
this house is such a fun place to visit !
Aroudn 9:30 Billy and Iheaded to the Enmed meeting. We are both on the board of the EnMed Medical school of Texas A&M .. Its an amazing program where students get an MD and a masters of bio engineering.
we had a great meeting. the topic today was the role of AI in medical Education,. We herd soem great talks today about how AI is helping nursing and medicine.. at the same time it’s changign the nature of Medicine. Many of the the things traditionally done by doctors can now be relagted to AI,,, and this is causing a shift in peoples interest in goign in to medicine. EnMed wants to be a leader in using AI as part of Medical training,, and medical devices.. That’ll be a challenge.. but a good one.
After the meeting we headed over to the Center for Device Innovation.. its the innovation lab that billy runs for Texas medical center,.
CDI is full of amazing ongoing projects, and history about past projects and Billy’s career, All really impressive !
Heres Billy with Micheal Debakey and Denton Cooley.. the worlds two most famous heart surgeons (so far 🙂
Our biys are up there too
Here’s the bivacor heart that Billy is working on . Its in human test righ now.. Its the most advanced artificial heart ever made.
My favorite thing here is the prototype of the central line robitc device that billy and Built together during the pandemic. he did the mechanical design and Idid the electronics and software. We mailed it back and forth multiple times.. then I programmed and tuned it remotely from Vermont .
Based on that prototype and early human testing . On the basis of that, billy was able to raise money and start a company Obvius Robotics .
Those guys happened to be visiting Houston today to do some human testing .. I got a demo of their production device.. So amazing to see this !
Around 4 I headed to the airport. The government shutdown is causing a ton of delay in TSA.. so Iwanted to be there in time
Igot through Check in and TSA in under 15 min.. so Ihad a nice 3 hour hang out in the houston airport..
I cant forget .. This used to be my home airport..
