diane made a beautiful challah .. the traditional bread of shabbat . i’m not observant in that way, but I have to admit that the idea of a day of rest every week really resonates i’m working hard not to work at all on fridays . no particular reason other than I want to make more free time for me and for me and diane to have fun. today was really nice a slow day.
the ‘challah men’ reference is because I was thinking of TS Elliot’s poem the Hollow Men kind of captures the gloomy place many of us find ourselves these days .
Today started very early. My buddy Chris and I had to get a design for the fire effects for ourduaneswhirld burning man campmart car. we’re going pretty simple just one medium size propane pooffer. We’re concentrating on simplicity and robustness.… And of course safety. We started working at around 730 and had the designs ready by 8:30
I didn’t headed off to work… It was a really fun day. There are some great new art in the building and we were lucky to have my friend John Abele come and speak to the whole company. He told a fantastic story about the creation of Boston scientific… And how the culture of the company changed… And didn’t change… Overtime. It was incredibly inspiring
I feel very grateful for being able to work around? Folks like John and ‘kyle
It was a pretty full day. Mid day Dianne and I got out for a hike to take in some of the last of the winter snow (Or so we thought) honey Hollow Road was a pure sheet of ice… So we hiked with krampons up from Honey Hollow pretty far over about three bridges. It was really beautiful up there
Later that afternoon Dianne went and picked up our friend Finn… Finn wanted to mess around in the shop so we decided to make an electric ignited smoke ring. Finn enjoyed working with gun powder Dry coffee creamer,and electric fuses… We made a remote detonator. Super fun.
today was an amazing experience. Arin and I took part in a very special event at University of Vermont. My friend Kevin from Brandon Vermont had organize the event. They were about 20 students from otter Valley high school who came up to UVM to see the unveiling of the “new” davenport’s motor that my friend Dave H had built. The first electric motor in the world… Or at least United States and certainly the first patent it electric motor was built by Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith a Brandon Vermont a long his wife. He designed the motor after seeing an electromagnet working to separate iron ore .Ruth did a number of basic electricity demonstrations including how electromagnets work, the Lorentz force,, lenses law etc. The kids even got to build two small motors… And electromagnet mutated motor and a homopolar motor. The last 15 minutes Aaron and I showed our new study hall electric motor. It is the pusher motor from our Alia playing it was constructed by our wonderful studyhall team… Aaron, andrea, Sara, ‘Shannon and me. We calculated that the new motor was 5000 times (!) more powerful than the Davenport motor… That’s a lot of progress and just 186 years :-)… We learned quite a bit I having our motor out reviews for the kids. We have some ideas for improvement… It was the first time we taking it out of beta And we were overall pleased with how it worked.
