Saturday night – weekending

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If there was a unifying theme for today it was ‘doing nothing’ .. Diane, Gabe  and I are have all been pretty over-programmed last week so we made a concerted effort not to make a concerted effort on anything this weekend We had a quiet evening at home where the big event was throwing sharp things at tree stumps.. Gabe has some special throwing knives, a throwing tomahawk.. and even some freaky batmanesque throwing bats. .. Nothing is more satisfying that throwing an axe at a tree and seeing/hearing it stick. YEAH !

we bilt a small fir and huddled around it as the night came and cooled things off. I think we even had a light  frost last night

This morning we met Jen and Tim and took the dogs u to Gillette pond, one of our favorite walks

such a beautiful place and only a mile form our house

for some reason the entire mountain was covered with butterflies this morning. they were even in our yard..

we came back and worked in the yard for a few hours…   i ran some errands.. including dropping the Tesla coil over at freind Scott’s.. .. I always like visiting him.. he has such cool stuff in his basement !

hen around 4 we walked over to freind Gary’s birthday party.. We stopped to admire the State’s elaborate fish counter for land locked salmon. It looks like it just landed here.

Gary’s party was really nice.. .. Gary was my boss in the mid 1990’s .. his kids Ian and Jess were in for the festivities..

there was food, music, baseball… and just hanging out.. that’s what we chose to do..

then it was time for cake.. here’s all of garys family, brother, mother, sister, wife Janet, Gary. and kids Jess and Ian.

there were two bands there tonight .  both really good. .   some dancing..

Diane and I left around 10 .. We came home and messed around with some of the liquid nitrogen that I had left..

a cool way to end a very nice day..

So not much of a newsy day.. but very satisfying.. more tomorrow from mothers day..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Friday evening – buzzwords

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Today was a kind of buzzword days… Same themes kept coming hip again and again..l I wish I kept score…

  • The overall theme for the days was ‘play’ it first came to Diane during zoomba yesterday.. It was the first thing she said to me this morning.. And it kept coming up,
  • the second one was ‘context’ … That’s a word that comes up at work all the time now.. It can mean many things, depending on the context… (wait, isn’t that a tautology ? ( now just wait.. Tautology will be a buzzword for me next week )) ..
  • the third word today was ‘intelligence’.. Not as in the real thing, but as in the way that computers sometimes pretend to be intelligent.. Tough they are getting more intelligent-ish every day
  • the fourth word was ‘facilitator’, as in … I can’t do anything without a facilitator .
  • the fifth word was ‘dialed in’ … I say that often now when I haven’t quite figured out what too do next
  • the sixth word was ‘3d printer’ .. Now I know that’s 2 words.. But it seems to be coming up in my life ALL the time (that’s for you, Ville in Helsinki If you are reading this ). I swear I have seen that phrase at least ten times this week in ten different contexts.. Not only that, but I used one last week

I guess the task that remains for my day is to use them all in a sentence together… As in..

I need to get dialed in on a facilitator to help me get the intelligence on a context for the 3d printer

No.. That doesn’t work..but dinner is ready, let me ponder that some more…

Nite all, note Sam
-me

Thursday night – Engineerin’

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Just back from giving another talk at UVM. This one was for Invent Vermont . a collection of independant inventors. dedicated to promoting innovation in our state. My freinds Jerome and Ben organized the even tonight. The idea was to show the members the UVM Fablab and the UVM Instrumentation and Modeling Facility.  Here were about 18 of us this evening. We met in Perkins hall that has this amusing sign.. Engineerin’ .. love it !.

after my talk we wandered over to the fablab. Jeff gave a demo of the printer and laser…

THen one of their members, Tom did a cool demo of silicon modl making. Gotta get some of this glop.

It was another fine evening of geekspeak. I hope these guys will join us in the broader maker community.. It really is an amazing about of activity on this stuff these days. A week doesn’t go by now without some sort of maker activity.. I just love it !

Speaking of love…. Diane and I were standing in the bathroom this mornign. as I brushed my teeth.. this HUGE spider dropped from the cieling between us.. it as over 2 inches across. it was AWESOME !

 

ok.. all for now.. more tomorrow…

nite all, nite sam

-me

Wednesday night – way back machine

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So I spent a good deal of time today thinking about the past… Not in any morose kind of way…. But in a very concrete way . Last week I subscribed to a service called timehop which tells you what you were doing exactly one year ago today.. At least as far as social networking can tell you what you were actually doing. Everyday it sends you an email every day with all your blog posts, facebook wall posts and tweets from the same day in the previous year. Today I learned that not only did I attend a great live show at higher ground last night, but I saw the same band (dark star) at the same venue, exactly the same day last year.. I even made the same observations about the number of grey (or no) haired hippies in the crowd, the transcendent power of life music.. And the great pleasure of being with good friends, good music and good beer (though I didn’t mention the beer in either post… That was a great aspect of both even endings as far as I can recall 🙂
I wonder how we would live our lives differently if we had a recording of everything we did in the past ?. The fact that I’m so predictable might give me pause to rethink how predictable I’ve become.. Instead I choose to think of it as being consistent .

Here’s to consistency ! ( and good music, friends and beer)

Nite all, nite Sam
-me