Super crazy day… Super crazy weekend. All work related… Nothing I can write about here but it all ended up OK
Just got off a web conference with some members of my family… My mom, my sisters family and my brother’s family… Diane and I also dropped it. I think this is something a lot of people are doing…
The theme tonight seem to be weird costumes… We didn’t plan it that way but that’s just how it ended up
I think this is something we do every week for a while… It was nice to see everybody. Early in the day Diane and I took great hike up wilderness ski trail at Bolton. It was actually pretty intense at the top… Kind of a scramble but totally beautiful up there. Still plenty of snow.
I gotta admit, This Cito lock down we’re in is starting to drive me crazy.… I really start to miss the outdoors. Luckily we have lots of nothing around us.… Diane Satori and I took the opportunity today to walk to the top of Bolton. Chau was happy to sit this one out and sleep. their were actually a couple of other people who were skinning up on skis or snowboarding up… The snowpack is still about 6 feet.… But we had no trouble keeping a respectable distance between us. I just Wanted to get up on the fire tower and look around and not see anything related to humans. That felt safe… In spite of being on top of a rickety tower 50 feet in the air
It Was an interesting day today. I have started getting lots of emails from friends who are looking for something they could do to help around the virus. I have that same feeling. I’ve been working on getting computer resources together to help people who are researching COVID-19…
Computer that we helped build is already being used in that way
I can talk about that a little bit later this week… But it’s pretty exciting. The same time I’ve gotten several lists of open source innovation. People are trying to make ventilators, breathing masks, facemasks… Anything to help with the short fall of medical equipment. It’s a great spirit… I think the key Challenge will be coordination. I’m looking into some of these things and will report back what I find
I did a little less practical making today. I worked on my “fever camp”… It’s an infrared camera that can tell if somebody has a fever. Here’s me 🙂 minute… With no fever (I think)
When the virus first started spreading I have to admit I was looking at it as an opportunity to collectively slow down. zIn fact it’s been very much the opposite. It seems like every aspect of my work is exploding right now and I am on video conferences all day as are my peers.… I was very much on my mind when I went on a run with Diane this morning. We saw a freshly fallen tree that a beaver had taken down in the last day or so… Good metaphor for keeping busy
