Things are always changing at work… Today was an interesting step. The group I was once in with my friends, Shannon and Aaron has been absorbed into another group… Up till now, though we still had our own corner some of our final projects were… Today we had to clean it out… So this is all that’s left.… So it’s sad to see things go. I’m actually enjoying what I’m doing now much better.
 there’s a lesson in there somewhere

I was over at the main site today… Talking to my friend Remy.. I just learned that he’s my friend Erics nephew.. !

it is a very small world.. especially in Vermont

nite all, nite sam

-me

Today I went in to pick up my glasses that were getting new lenses… I go to an optometrist and tap corners. The place had recently been sold to a new very nice optometrist Dr. Horlock. I noticed that he had put an article up about the previous owner of the business… My friend Thomas Clarke . I mentioned to the woman at the front desk, how much I miss Tom, and she looked at me for a moment and said you don’t know?… He had passed away about a month ago. He had just retired sold the business and then had heart valve surgery that he knew he had had to get done. Unfortunately, he had complications from the surgery and never left the hospital . Tom was an interesting guy… He was an inventor who created a couple of new devices to help optometrist and even got a patent on it. I’d actually help him on one of his devices. Every time I went in to get my eyes checked, we ended up having our long technical conversations… It had a good sense of humor and was a very, very intelligent guy.He also had many other hobbies, including playing the violin, fly fishing, etc. I couldn’t believe that he was goDr ne.. I will really miss our conversation. Here’s his Obit 

Well, I was looking for Tom’s obituary. I was surprised and saddened to come across the obituary of another good friend of mine… Dr. Bill Fellinger. Bill and I worked together for many years at IBM. He was like the wizard… He was always doing something interesting… he had opinions on many things and a huge wealth of stories. I remember he was a huge proponent of an early AI language called SNOBOL. 

It was strange to come across the depths of two friends at once… I guess that’s part of growing up.… I will miss them both.

I was in a pretty contemplative mood when I went home to a beautiful sunset.. 

nite all. nite sam

-me

We are very early flight back. We got a 5:30 AM shuttle over to the airport and walked around. It brought back memories… I flew in and out of here many many times when I lived here.

the flight back was uneventful… Got lots done… And as always watch the big Lebowski with no sound

We got home  late afternoon… Evidently it had been so hot up here in Vermont while we were gone that the seltzer can almost exploded in the car…

Luckily, it was nice and cool here now… I’ve had just about enough heat for the summer

nite all, nite sam

-me

Super chill day.. lots of comings and goings..and we were leaving the fam tonight.. Got to wait nephew Chris (aka Tizzy) .. building an amazing airconditioner that would use melting ice to cool air for his car.. It wa a multilayer heat exchanger with a pup that moved the cold water along the aluminum plates, while a fan blew air across the other side of the plates. It was all 3d printed and beautifully designed and made..   Chris is a natural born maker .. Can’t wait to hear how it works.  

Mid a afternoon we had a quick sushi lunch 

Then Max took Andy for a ride in the triumph. They both looks good in that car !

About 4 billy had to head out for a quick 36 hour trip to Australia (!) to The real inventor of the Bivacor heart is a guy named Daniel Tim’s who comes from Australia.… The stuff is making huge news over there… So Billy was going down to help train a surgeon down there how to implant the new bivacore heart.

we left shortly after Billy… It had been a very brief and very fun visit.
Max out so had to get back to his hotel. on the way there we stopped at another tech art exhibit… This one was ArtTechHaouse. It’s part of the series of museums from an organization that comes out of Washington DC. This one was much more high consent… If you were exhibits much much better, Curation. And the execution was really superb…

my favorite pieces there were by a young Japanese artist named Shohei Fujimoto. He had some really interesting experiments using projection mapping. My favorite exhibit was a large array of steerable “fat beam” re lasers, two bright white LED strobes and some rhythmic type of drumming music. These pictures don’t do it justice. It was really an amazing piece. I watched it for about 20 minutes.

the rest of the show was fun and powerful too !

after that, we tried to get a bite to eat at a place just opposite the new meow wolf which Max is helping build. unfortunately we were about five minutes too late to eat… But we did get to check out their art cars…T

hen we took a drive around the meow wolf site… They’re just beginning, but it’s a very cool old building and you can see how it’s gonna be a great place for meow wolf. it is interesting. That meow Wolf will be the third art meets tech venue in the town… Though meow Wolf is very different… It’s much more immersive and story driven.… If nothing else this shows how popular this trend of art meets tech is getting.

We were surprised to see how few places were open to eat on a Sunday night… We ended up following a yelp recommendation to a Middle Eastern Pl. in downtown Houston. It was in a really s padart of town. … Lots of unhoped people. I never really been in downtown Houston at night… It was like something out of it dystopian movie.

 

The food was good though

we said good night to Max . I’m so happy to see how he moves through the world… He’s an amazing human.Diana and I drove out to the airport and our airport hotel got some sleep… We had a very early flight the next day

nite all. nite sam

-me