2 AM and just getting home. This morning I left around 630 to go to Poughkeepsie for some filming. As soon as it was done I started to head back. I was able to visit my friend Jim in the rehabilitation center where he is living. He’s doing so much better. He will be going home soon. It’s really a miracle.

Right now I need to go to sleep it’s been 525 miles in one day.

That’s enough for anyone.
Night all, night Sam
– Me

Location:Duxbury Rd,Richmond,United States

I had a traditionally busy day today… Wall-to-wall phone meetings, punctuated by some recreational programming. Not all bad. The one highlight that I had was a conference call at which a friend of mine, Luis, was talking about his life beyond email.
That’s right, I said life beyond email. I must admit I was skeptical. The premise of his talk was that using social networking, or the enterprise equivalent of social networking, one could free oneself from the daily burden Of picking your way through a huge mail inbox. I assume most of you can sympathize with this problem. I personally get between 100 and 300 emails a day and attempt to answer everyone. Most nights I go to bed with my email more full than when I woke up and so by the end of the week I have a mountain that I have to struggle through over the weekend. Worse yet, going through email takes away from actual time of doing things. I once heard someone say that email is a task list managed for you by other people.
As skeptical as I was, I listened with interest as he told us how he had gone from one day of having hundreds of emails like me to his current situation where he gets one or two emails that he responds to every day. I want that inbox… I’ll bet you do too. His suggestion on how to get to that point was stunning… He suggested you just stop answering email. What? Stop answering email? How would that work?

I don’t know…. But whats the worst that could happen ?

Night all, night Sam
– Me

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As in ‘ whats nu’ the greek letter used to denote frequency .. Like :

E = hv
Lambda = C/v

Im sitting here watching Gbae work through an amazing chemistry lab write up on rutheford, bohr, planck etc…

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They’ve calculated the speed of light to 0.02 % accuracy using a microwave and a chocolate bar.. Calculated Planck’s constant using a voltmeter and a bunch of colored leds and calculated the frequency of violet light using a cd and a yard stick…
… I am looking at this stuff…most of it that i have used in my work over the years… And realizing how little i really understood it the first time i saw it… Watching gabe grind through it now, i find im still learning…

We were Never this smart as kids..

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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So careful readers may realize that I have been trying out new speech dictation technology in my iPad. If it only would work, it would remove one of the biggest barriers I have to writing. I’ve never been able to write easily. Actually sitting down every day like I do to write here, has been The best thing I’ve ever done to overcome my fear of writing.
The promise of a technology that would make writing as easy as speaking is almost too wonderful To consider.
The problem is I’m not better a reader as I am a writer… That means when I try to proofread something that I dictated like I am doing right now I often don’t see the errors. At least this way when I’m talking everything maps to a word… it just may not be the word I mean..
Still the technology that I’m using is just the little microphone at the bottom of the iPad does a pretty serviceable job. It allows me to speak at a normal rate and pace. It gets most words correct or at least closed. And it allows me to say certain punctuation like., – “”!?, ;…
As smart as it is it still doesn’t know the difference between 22 and two.
Oh man, really garbled that one.

But any technology that can recognize supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Is pretty cool in my book.

Let’s try some dictated tongue twisters shall we?

She sells seashells by the seashore…
Peter piper picked a peck of peppers
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Not very good in foreign languages though. My Favorite Spanish tongue twister
Pancha plancha con quatro planchas,con cauntos planchas Panca plancha ?
Becomes:

Punch up Logicon Quatro’s contest on toast crunch as punch Uppland?

I going to actually try dictating my next white paper. That will be interesting to see if it can get technical Jarjon correct I’ll let you know how it goes.

That’s it for now more speech tomorrow
Night all, night Sam
– Me

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