Diane flowers are outdoing themselves wiht color right now. CHeck thee out

 

Our good friends Chris Aand Kim hosted a fire theater at their house tonight.. Chris also built a small version of Champ to burn.. .. We helped out giving out  popcorn as we have in the past. 

Akways fun looking around chris and kims yard.. love the word garden

here’s the fire part

then came the burn

 

t was a great performance and a great burn !
nite all, nite sam

-me

Diane and I were up at Jay Peak today for a AI panel I was running for the mVT Association of Hospital and Health Services.The panelist were great !  I thought the panel went pretty well.. .a little long though.  I really enjoyed meetign all of these healthcare folks > I was very impressed with the level of sophistication of their current AI deployments and even more so for their visions for the future. 

After the panel, we said goodbye to everone from VAHHS.. then drove aroudn the mountain to do a beautiful climb up Jay Peak. THe weather was beautiful and the fall colors were already starting. In addition to great views of Vermont, We could see canada, New Hampshire  and New York.. .. It was a great hike !

We got him e late afternoon.. ..

nice quick trip north !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Ps. My Aunt Brig had sent me this  picture of my cuains wedding in Lafayette, LA earlier this year.. nnice pic of that side of the family .. that was a really fun time 

Today was super interesting . THis afternoon , DIane and I traveled to  Jay Peak . I’d been asked to moderate a panel on AI  tomorrow for the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (VAHHS) . 

We went up this evening in order to meet soem. of the people and hear soem of the content. It’s a great group of people . They are talkign about all sorts of issues facing healthcare in VT> oen of the main focuses this year is on the impact.. bith positive and negaative.. of AI on healthcare. We had a great tiem meeting the people.. we all tooka. hike together.. then had a great dinner.. super interesting conversations !

more from this conference tomorrow.

nite all, nite sam
-me

My friends Kasey and Ross and I have decided to build a  vacuum tube Tesla coil. It’s Kaseys idea.  Vacuum tubes were the first amplifying electronics device.. Vacuum tubes  were invented back in 1904 by british physicist. John Ambrose Fleming. 

Vacuum tubse  were used up  until  the 1970’s for all but exotic radio transmitters  (and microwave ovens now that I think of it) .. They’re coming back in to vogue for high end audio equipment. Some peopke think they give audio a warmer sound.  dunno..

but building a vacuum tube tesla coil is a fun retro way to build a high voltage toy.  Here’s what we’re planning to build.. Its from an article a 12 year old kid wrote back in 2012 !

We’ve started to order parts. I’ve collected these so far. 

My friend Scott would have loved this project..

Whatch these pages for progress !

nite  all, nite sam

-me