One of the most interestign relics I found in my archeology exercise at the ibme site was this guy. It’s a 2004 Wowwee robot. Ge’s about 18 inces tall and sort of remote controlla ble. The batteries in there expired in 2003 .. yet they still worked. He’s an interesting guy and is currently guarding our living room !
They just dont make toys like that anymore… 🙂
nite all, nite sam
-me
Diane and I took a nice long hike with our friends Cara (Coco) Tom and their dog Hoss. We headed up from their house on Camels hum road on logging roads, then bushwhacked up a stream to the ridge where we met the bamforth ridge trail. We then hiked down that until we cut left and bushwhacked down towards gleason brook. On the way we found an old long ago abandoned farming road we call “sheep shoot”.. and followed it back down to the base of bamforth ridge. It was about 6.5 miles and really nice. It was nice to spend that time with Cara and Tom.. though Tom had to turn back early for a music lesson he was teaching.
back at home I continued my effort to go through all the stuff I’d broguht home from IBM.. Some I kept, some I photographed and recycled.. In the end, I felt the need to keep the leters that kids havd written me for visiting their schools.. but didnt feel the need to keep all the goofy plaques i’d gotten through all those years at IBM..
One thing that was cool.. was finding the first bag of “Zatar”.. the middle eastern spice. I liked that word so much that I used it when I did all my electricity and sceince shows in schools… I still use it as my “playa name” out at burning man. Many people only know me ast Zatar
nite all, nite sam
-me
I used today to go through all the stuff I’d rescued from IBM this week. It was fun and a little hard to go through all that stuff. there were family pictures, desk tschotskies, plaques. notebooks, books… and lots and lots of presentations, documents,.printouts that I knew were important at the time.. but seemed so trivial now.. it was a really weird feeling.
I did find lots of toys designed to give electric shocks… which the boys gave me.. Coming from them.. all 3 of them.. gave even cheap plastic toys the feeling of a sacred relics. I’ve learned to let that go.. I hold the item.. soemtimes photographic it then pass it on.. to not do that is to get weighed down ..
… and we cant be weighed down..
nite all, note sam
-me
Fun day.. Started with a hike up Duxbury window.. then a busy day at work. BETA’s holiday market was tonight.. Lots of cool people showing their wares
From there we headed over to the annual IEEE gathering. It was held this year in the alumni building.. food was really good.. middle eastern !
We had a great speaker from the Vermont energy transmission people. Several of my freinds got awards for their service to IEEE.. it was really nice to see them get recognized !
Nice seeing so many good old friends.
nite all, nite sam
-me