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Tuesday night – play machine

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I had a great opportunity today to help IBM with a social networking campaign they are working on.. it’s all about the concept of Play.. and it came along in parallel with and in harmony with my own focus on the subject.   The campaign is on IBM’s Tumblr channel.. IBMblr. Today I was helping ntroduce the Play Machine.. A very cool physical computing machine created by makers Jeff and Rajeet.   The device is hooked to statistics from the  IBMblr site using the Tumblr API’s and some cool IBM technology including our SoftLayer Cloud, MQLite and NodeRed.

 

When someone ‘likes’ one of our pages on IBMblr  .. the machine drops a few kernels of of popcorn are released down a chute into the path of a heat gun which causes them to pop !

 

When someone ‘shares’ one of the links on IBMblr   a globe spins around and aims a laser on the location of the IP  address they shared from !

if someone ‘reblogs’ one of the links on IBMblr   then this crazy machine chops at itself with a sharpened  (really, really sharp !) Adze..

and finally, if someone ‘follows’ us at IBMblr   their  Tumblr screen name is printed on one of these 6 retro thermal printers..

You can watch the machine here ..    It’s really cool to try and one of those links and watch the video feed.

I also really enjoyed working with the Ogilvy folks who re working on the program.. they have all become good friends..

also appreciated the time with my friend Kevin from Astor place…

OK.. heading home now.. more later.

nite all, nite sam

-me

Sunday night – elemental

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you can learn so much by taking a shower.   I had chills again tonight so I took a long, hot shower in the ‘kids’ bathroom. We have a very cool and very vinyl-y periodic table shower curtin

.. Did you know that there are 13  elements that only have 1 letter names ?  Check them all out..

Other good things I noticed.. there are 12 elements who’s letters are symmetric when written top to bottom.   Curiously.. soem of them have two letters. .. Let’s hear it for Holonium !  Highest two letter symmetric elements

good things to ponder..

nite all. nite sam

-me

Saturday night – PDAH

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Perfect day at home.. Woke up well rested at 7:30 by a dog wanting to play.. I had absolutely nothing on my mind.. what a wonderful thought.. or non-thought that was.. I spent the day hanging round the house, hanging our with max and gabe , scratching the dogs, faling asleep by the fire. and enjoying the view of the nice blanket of snow,

Max and I started working on a cool drumming project he’s had going.. wrote some code for that.

 

 

 

. went for a run..

 

and did not think about work much at all.. just what i needed..

 

As an extension to my work too hard, do fine, then wonder why I worked so hard pattern i discussed last night.. I must add a standard extension.. I’m now sick.. by dinner time I had a high fever and chills.. .. but managed to chase that out of me with advil and a hot shower.. Felt good enough for nice suushi dinner with the family.. (questionable from a public health angle, I realize).. but I needed to be with family..

 

now goign to get soem sleep

nite all. nite sam

-me