Still in Amsterdam..good day at work today ..  siting in a different hotel tonight. this one much, much nicer.  my friend Djeevan dropped me off here .. we had a beer then he headed home.. I doidn’t feel like talking to anyone so i just headed up to my room. Luckily I found a cheese sandwich from breakfast still in my briefecase so thats what I ended up eating for dinner…   i know that sounds like a weirdway to spend my last night in one of the worlds most exciting cities.. but it was a very good  cheese sandwich !

 

My work day was busy and fulfilling.. several very productive work meetings then some great meetings with journalists.. This guy Adjit was really amazing.. a futurist writing a book on water.. He told me that Hindus are not allowed to drink recycled water.. I asked if it might be better to call it reincarnated water.. he was going to check on it !.

 

Then I did a really good  roundtable..

 

and finally then a talk with almost 400 folks (!!!)

Here’s my host Arlette.. (she gave me salted licorice !)

 

co-host Piet

 

 

some great fellow nerds there as well.. including several folks from the local hackerspace..  

 

 

This guy was so amazing.. he’s building his own 100 watt Co2 laser cutter, has made his own 3d printer and is creating a 500meter long led display (yow !) .. I hope to visit his makerspace on my next trip here.

Its about 1 am and I’m not even halfway through my email for the night.. .. and I have an early client meeting tomorrow morning.. Gonna be a long nigtht.. but thats ok . I like it here …

 

-nite all, nite sam

-me

ps.. two cool things to listen to..

1. my friend carolyn sent me a great NPR peice on the ‘bug in the urinal’ thing I posted yesterday.. have a listen .

2. my good freind gary just posted a song he wrote.. I really like it.. check it out !