{"id":100787,"date":"2023-11-04T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=100787"},"modified":"2023-11-25T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T17:15:21","slug":"saturday-night-catching-up-with-val","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2023\/11\/04\/saturday-night-catching-up-with-val\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night &#8211; Catching up with Val"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The day started early..\u00a0 \u00a0I dropped Diane off at the airport at about 4:30 then headed home for a few hours more sleep. Diane is going down to DC\u00a0 to see our good friends Kate., Mathew Caroline and Anna.. I&#8217;m meeting her down there Monday with Shannon and Aaron (rebar) for a work installation .\u00a0<br \/><br \/>I used the day to catch up on some projects in my shop. Mid afternoon I headed up to Colchester to visit some friends.<\/p>\n<p>First visit was to my old friend Val. I first met Val over 30 years ago. He and his\u00a0 wife and daughter moved to Vermont from Novosibirsk Russia . I met Val through my good friend (and oldest vermont friend) Paul G. Val like Paul is an amazing musician.\u00a0 \u00a0 I kinda lost track of Val over the years. Val is a gifted engineer who is strong in both theory and hands-on practice.\u00a0 \u00a0In Russia he developed a novel architecture for generating 6 access 3 dimensional positioning using just three linear actuators along with an elegant mathematical model\u00a0 of how to use it. When he moved to the US, Val only spoke a little english. He got a job doing shop cleanup for Hazelett strip casting in Colchester.. by the time he retired, Val was their chief scientist. I&#8217;ll never for get some of the demos val built to test out pumping and braking\u00a0 mechanisms for the molten metals used in the strip casting machines.\u00a0<br \/>Last year I learned that\u00a0 our boss Kyle had worked with Val for many years at a company they founded called iTherm doing induction heating . Kyle always talks about Val in such admiration.. Kyles focus on &#8216;first principles&#8217; engineering was inspired by Val.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Anyway.. it was so good catching up with Val.. he&#8217;s 86 and has had numerous health problems.. but is still sharp as a tack. It was so good catching up . I hadn&#8217;t been to Vals hose in more than 30 years. Last time I was there Val and wife Tatiana had fed me and\u00a0 served me their\u00a0 home made garlic and hot pepper vodka.\u00a0 \u00a0(I still remember the hangover \ud83d\ude42 ..\u00a0 \u00a0Tattiana died quite a few years ago..and Val now lives alone.\u00a0 It was great catching up on the decades since we&#8217;d last talked.. Val fed me .. and gave me a shot glass of that same garlic and hot pepper vodka..\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"100789\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/D669794B-5229-4BA6-9CA6-CC0A7D127C01_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100789\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/D669794B-5229-4BA6-9CA6-CC0A7D127C01_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/D669794B-5229-4BA6-9CA6-CC0A7D127C01_1_105_c.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/D669794B-5229-4BA6-9CA6-CC0A7D127C01_1_105_c.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"100790\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1399ED93-2A3D-4DC5-90CD-AD7411135C3A_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100790\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1399ED93-2A3D-4DC5-90CD-AD7411135C3A_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1399ED93-2A3D-4DC5-90CD-AD7411135C3A_1_105_c.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1399ED93-2A3D-4DC5-90CD-AD7411135C3A_1_105_c.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"100791\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20E11440-71EE-481C-87EE-0528B4C9A91C_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100791\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20E11440-71EE-481C-87EE-0528B4C9A91C_1_105_c.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20E11440-71EE-481C-87EE-0528B4C9A91C_1_105_c.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20E11440-71EE-481C-87EE-0528B4C9A91C_1_105_c.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20E11440-71EE-481C-87EE-0528B4C9A91C_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20E11440-71EE-481C-87EE-0528B4C9A91C_1_105_c.jpeg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"100792\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/4DC29798-22C5-48A8-93BA-FA8D7DDC18D8_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100792\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/4DC29798-22C5-48A8-93BA-FA8D7DDC18D8_1_105_c.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/4DC29798-22C5-48A8-93BA-FA8D7DDC18D8_1_105_c.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/4DC29798-22C5-48A8-93BA-FA8D7DDC18D8_1_105_c.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/4DC29798-22C5-48A8-93BA-FA8D7DDC18D8_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/4DC29798-22C5-48A8-93BA-FA8D7DDC18D8_1_105_c.jpeg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We talked for a couple of hours.. talking about mutual friends, tech. vodka and music. He played some piano too.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"100793\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/E3D38D62-08DC-49EE-941E-F141E2705B98_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100793\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/E3D38D62-08DC-49EE-941E-F141E2705B98_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/E3D38D62-08DC-49EE-941E-F141E2705B98_1_105_c.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/E3D38D62-08DC-49EE-941E-F141E2705B98_1_105_c.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8695.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It had been such a pleasure catching up. I&#8217;m so inspired by Val.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a great man\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day started early..\u00a0 \u00a0I dropped Diane off at the airport at about 4:30 then headed home for a few hours more sleep. Diane is going down to DC\u00a0 to see our good friends Kate., Mathew Caroline and Anna.. I&#8217;m meeting her down there Monday with Shannon and Aaron (rebar) for a work installation .\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2023\/11\/04\/saturday-night-catching-up-with-val\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday night &#8211; Catching up with Val<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100795,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100787\/revisions\/100795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}