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Friday night – wordle

Not much to report today… so.. I’ll give you a pictorial review of my week. I  don’t know if you remember, but I once ran a whole year of my blog text into a thing called ‘many eyes’ and it drew a picture of the 704,000 words I wrote here last year. It was tricky to use.. but now those folks have made it easier to use.. (you can try it here)  Here’s my last nine days .the words that occurred the most often are the biggest.. . I think it sums it up pretty nicely.. … it was a week of ‘got’

OK.. I have circuits to solder.. More tomorrow. Nite all. Nite Sam !
-me

Thursday night – Mom and dad’s

 

It’s about 1:30 AM and I just got home from Boston. I was able to skip out on a meeting tomorrow in Boston and get back home a day earlier.. I don’t like being away from Diane and Gabe this long.. It was a hard trip.. got lots done.. but pretty emotionally tiring

I had planned on staying with my folks tonight.. so.. even though I was able to go home tonight, I wanted to go and see them . I got there about 7L30 this evening after our meetings were over. My mom met me with the gift of a snake shaped gourd… is that cool or what ?

It was great seeing my folks.. I really enjoyed having them out with my work friends on Monday night. Tonight was a quick visit.. I helped my mom set up the new laptop she got for her birthday.. and helped her hook it up with the camera they got for their anniversary.. It was fun playing with new hardware…

I spent some time looking at pictures around their house.. they have so many pictures of my family.. its so nice and so sad..

Families are made of memories…

Time to sleep .. Gnite folks.. gnite Sam.. we all love you
-jc

Tuesday night – homecoming

Hi friends.. I’m still in Cambridge. I had a surprisingly good set of meetings today.. It’s the time when some of my friends role off the committee I’m on and some new friends role on. It’s strange and sad about not seeing some of these folks as regularly as I do now. We’ve all become really close. They’ve been with me through some of the toughest times of my life.. I’ll miss them… At the same time, I look forward to getting some of these new folks better.

Anyway.. back to today.. I started with a run up Memorial Drive and the Charles River back to my old dorm.. it was a beautiful morning.

Here’s the famous Citco sign that I could see from my old dorm window. Pat O. has a miniture of this sign in his own little fenway park in Essex.,

I stopped by my old dorm, Bexley.

Here’s my old dorm room from when I was a senior

Here’s the window where the police caught me rappelling down the building.

and here’s my sophmore year window.

And Kresge Auditioriam.. a.k.a. ‘the potatoe chip’

On the way howm from work I pulled up behind a car with both Diane and my undergrad school stikers… We gotta meet these guys !

We all decided to walk to dinner, so I took folks on a wlak through MIT-land..

Here’s my orm window again !

And Bexley again.. this time I placed a SamStone.. That’s my window again above it.

Here we all are on the atairs of 77 mass ave.. the main MIT entrance.

I was taking my crew down the ‘infitinte corridor’ when I ran into my good freinds Kim and Kathy. Ki’ms the Dean of Undergraduate Research here.. he runs the Edgerton cdenter. Kathy is a biologist and has invented a toy wiht Lego that teachs folks about protein synthesis. It was so cool running into them like that.. As always.. really small world !

We hiked around looking for a resturant.. we passed the MIT presss (still one of my favorite logos !)

Then dinner at the Cambridge Brew Pub..

Here’s the Verggie thing they made for me.. pretty good..

This stuff made it much better !

We then walked home.. Past the wierd Statis Center.

and soem wierd flag art…

We all walked Luba back to her hotel.. themn loped back to ours. On the way, we found this great political statement.

OK.. now it’s time for sleep.. I gotta wake up early if I’m going to get a run in.. Talk to you later.. Nite Samm

-me

Monday night – cambridge

Greetings ffrom Cambridge MA (our fair city) ..

I’m here at an IBM meeting.. Drove down this morning. It was a beautiful day to be driving. Here’s the view f the charles river from my hotel room.. I’m staying just up the street from my old dorm at MIT. This is the hotel that my folks stayed in when I graduated from college. mroe than 25 years ago.. !..

Our meeting doesn’t officially begin until tomorrow. … but my friend David had arraigned for a short tour of the MIT Media Lab. I worked in the precursor to the media lab in the late 70’s and early 80’s . It’s changed quite a bit since then as you would imagine. .. but.. it still had the same sort of cool energy that I remember.

We saw the maings of a machine opera.. where the main character becomes a computerized bookshelf (?!?!?)

a new fold up electrical car !

What a great workspace !

Here’s a gesture operated flecible interface fro making music…

and a real time wind and shadow simulat0r.

and a LADAR contour mapper…

Hre it’s seeing my arm in the field

The ceiling in one lab was covered with pinweels that spun in response to entwork trafic.. (wierd)

The tour was so cool.. it was over just too soon. We walkde out to find some sort of emergence thing goign on. Lucily we were able to back down the street and escape !

I invited my folks o coem out and ea with us.. I coaxed the group inot goign to the ‘Middle East’ a favorite haunt of mine when I weant to school here.. I love the food there. My folks fit right in.. It was great getting them to meet my colleagues and visa versa.

OK.. gotta sleep now. more tomorrow !. Note all.. Nite Sam !
-me