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Thursday night – talks beget talks

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im discovering that Talks beget talks… like rabbits.. or bacteria.. or fission reactions. giving one talk. leads to invitation to two talks.. which leads to invitations to four talks which leads either to invitations to 8 talks.. or insanity… whichever comes first. i’m finding myself completely overwhelmed with really nice invitations from really nice people to really nice places. In the last 2 weeks I’ve been invited to (and I’m not making any of this up) Russia, poland, kazakstan, turkey, india, brazil, mexico, austria, czech republic, ireland, Dubai, kenya, hungary, india, portugal, australia , england, and switzerland

I want to say yes to them all.. but then i will go crazy… which means I need to say no to them all.. which means i will go crazy…

at least i know whatever happens… I will go crazy,

thats some consolation

-nite all, nite sam
-me

Wednesday night – road trip

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Greetings from a Rent-A-Car on i 91 just south of Vermont border. My flight from Lagardia to Burlington was canceled this afternoon because the flight before couldn't land. We're expecting as much as 2 feet of snow. The good news is though Is that my friends Deb and Wendy Were on thatsame flight. We were able to get the last four-wheel-drive rental out of Avis and got on the road pretty quickly. It's about 7:25 and we're just about to enter the snow. If we make it tonight it'll be a long slow drive.… Or will stop somewhere along the way. We will see..

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Fun day today though. I was an event in Yorktown to celebrate the international day of women. (March 8) . It was an extended panel discussion with 6 other folks… All of them women ! I was honored to be among them.. It was broadcast pretty widely and were able to interact with folks via twitter which was fun. We also had some folks present in short video clips. The hilight of the event for me was listening to my friend Romellia's daughter Christina talk about her i t ernship at ibm.. She's a senior in college and had such great insights.

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There was another great birthday today.. Its the 25th aniversary of the internet ! Happy birthday Interweb..

Ok.. The rain has stopped for a bit.. Here we go !

-nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Tuesday night – Oh Atlanta

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Greetings from just over Atlanta. Spent the day there in a very good meeting.. it’s funny to be here as Gabe came through here this morning too on his way home. He had a good trip to Portland.. eager to hear about it when I get home.

I really love this city.. it’s quite different than the Atalanta I remember as a kid. My dad is from Elberton GA.. so the place has always felt a little like home.. even though Elberton is quite far from here. I remember visiting underground atlanta.. and hearing stories about lester mattox.. I remember hearing Atlanta’s mayor young talking about Avignon to role the windows up when you drove down town..

Now it’s a high tech mecca.. I love walking around GA tech and seeing all the start ups. theyve got a great emtro system, a makerfaire.. nice architecture.. i think i could live here if it was 30 degrees cooler !

the song ‘Oh Atlanta’ has been on a loop in my head all day.. .. that is until i realize that I knwo two songs with that name.. and they’re as differnt as can be..

there’s the Alison Krause one..

 

and the Little Feat one..

They’re both old sweet songs.. and I got Georgia on my mind !
nite al. nite sam
-me

Monday night – Flu shot

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Stayed up past 1 AM last night working.. and had a call at 7 (i thought).. didn’t really sleep much last night.. lines of code goign through my head. .. which is kinda nice.. at least its technical stuff..

Still I managed to be alert all day and worked like an animal until about 5.. I then realized I had just enough time to send off some spare parts for mikes crazy keyboard contraption. THe tought thing is finding out where the band is goign to be long enough for me to get them with overnight mail. I made the UPS place with 5 min to spare…. ..

It feltgood to be out of the house.. SO I was thinking about else can i could do at 6pm at night ..  the most fun I could come up with was to get a Flu shot.. I knwo the season’s already over.. but.. I was feelign kinda left out..

so I stopped in the drug store, rolled up my sleeve… and ‘ouch’…  i’m now part of the clu.. . Whats it say abotu e that getign a flu shot was the high point of my day 🙂 ?