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Thursday night – a very good cheese sandwich !

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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 !.

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Then I did a really good  roundtable..

 

and finally then a talk with almost 400 folks (!!!)IMG_0116

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

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co-host PietIMG_0113

 

 

some great fellow nerds there as well.. including several folks from the local hackerspace.. IMG_0112  IMG_0109 IMG_0108 IMG_0106

 

 

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. IMG_0105

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 !