Greetings from Milpitas.. I’m on abotu 3 hours sleep.. so I can’t write much.. but I’m out here for an early work meeting tomorrow morning. My meeting happened to allow me to catch the last 6 hours of the Bay area makerfaire..
I can’t even begin to start describing it.. Well over 100 thousand folks.. most of them makers of things.. wandered through the perfect weather looking at made device.. eating made food, trading stuff.. and just soaking it all in as I did.. highlights for me were the people.. a few things that come to my foggy mind right now was
Arc attacks musical tesla coil
cool neons wall size rainbow wall
slaparoos slap bass made of banding strap
fresh hibiscus water to drink
electric imps 802.11 direct to cloud solution
the panel on kick starter
seeing my freind dale
grow your own mushroom kits
flameing pipe organ
cupcake cars
steampunk mega bike
the solar powerd stage with (I think) kurt cobains daughter
seeign adam savage in the makerfaire office
flaming lotus girls
watching the solar eclipse !!!!!!!!!
watching the people watch the solar eclipse !!!!!!!!!!
using my cousin bills eclipse sun dial !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
having my head 3d scanned
the hot sauce on the spinach kinesh (not the kniish.. just the hot sauce)
the list could go on.. but I need to sleep.. It was so great seeign so many.. and such a diverse group of folks come together to celibrate the maker spirit. THis is such great thing for me to see as we plan our own Champlain Makerfaire in Sept of 2012.. It’s going to be great !!!
I finished the evening by visiting Rafe and Laurence and their beautiful oh-so kids.. that was so sweet. Great dinner, great hanging out.. even got to read the kids some bed time books.. including some of my old favs..
ok.. that’s it for now. more tomorrow..
nite all, nite sam
-me
Absolutely glorious day here in Vermont . Almost 80 degrees and no humidity. W usually have only a few of these days every year, but we’ve been blessed with quite a few this spring. It was a perfect day for gabes lacrosse game this morning…I was able to watch the game without thinking about anything else.. Another blessing..
The rest of the day we spent puttering around the yard just thinking of excuses to stay outside. A our only plan for the day was to go to friend Patrick’s graduation party.. Many of our friends are graduating from college this week. .. Today was a party for pat.. Tomorrow one for Marie. W got to pats house and his parents met us at the door…. Turns out that pat wasn’t going to make his own party. Last night at a pre graduation party another kid got a little out of hand and managed to sucker punch pat in the face. It broke his cheek bone and eye socket.. Today he had surgery to repair everything which included the addition of a steel plate.. He was still in the hospital tonight..but his folks had ordered the food… So the show had to go on. we had a nice time toasting the grad while he sat in the hospital. The good news is that he was getting released tonight…. Alls well that ends well..
Congrats to all you grads.. Good luck in the world and keep your guard up !
Note all, nite sam
-me
Ps. Here’s a view of the sunset reflected in the towers window a few minutes ago..
Greetings from beautiful Newark NJ. It actually is beautiful… Anyplace is beautiful with this kind of weather.. I spent the day counting the cars on the new jersey turnpike.. Or something like that .. Actually I came down for a very cool meeting.. Real problems, real computers, real people.. I loved it.l now I’m waiting for my flight back and ran into our good friend jeremy aka bulldog from back home. He’s been waiting in the airport since noon ! I think I’m going to go get the poor kid a beer.
That’s one cool side benefit of straddling, running into friends in strange places.. Or in this case, strange friends in places…
I feel like such an adult today.. Diane and I bought our first gas grill together after 31 years of cooking on little rusting wobbly charcoal grills, we finally took the plunge. For mothers Day and fathers day combined we pooled our funds and bought a shin y Propane grill, complete with utility hooks and bun warmers , and a little stove on the outside I can use to power my moonshine still ( oooops shouldn’t say that, should I?). Like all modern things, some assembly was required… Should I feel bad that it took us longer than the average 45 minute assembly time… I I guess we were just enjoying the ride… True to form, the little package of parts shorted us 5 lock washers… Wish I had to supply from my own private stash. But it tried to make it up to us by giving us an extra 1/2 inch bolt.. Fair Is fair… Really , putting one of these together is a lot like life.. The instructions you get are Mickey and unclear, all the parts aren’t there, but if you hunt around, you can make do. There are always a few rough edges.. But when you step back and behold what you’ve done, it’s something admiring,,,,
