{"id":1043,"date":"2009-06-26T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/06\/26\/friday-night-lightening\/"},"modified":"2009-06-26T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T08:30:00","slug":"friday-night-lightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/06\/26\/friday-night-lightening\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – lightening"},"content":{"rendered":"

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12:30 AM and I’m just home from NY.. It took me 7 hours to do the normal 5 hour run due to weather. It was incredible !.. There were the most amazing lightening storms nearly tthe whole why back. I saw 2 lightning strikes.. even almost caught one on camera. I was taking a picture of something else when lightening hit the top of a gas station. THere was a HUGE shower of sparks… I just missed it with my camera. A bit later I wateched a huge television\u00a0 antenna get hit. I also saw a bunch of ligthening bolts between clowds. it was a great natural fireworks show. . ..<\/div>\n

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Then there were some great rainbows as the light was fading\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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The drive back.. while long, was peaceful.. I spent a good deal of it on the phone. It’s amazing what you can think of to talk abotu for 7 hours including:<\/p>\n

– I spoke with Dave H. about concertina. northumbrian pipes, steam powered robots . chemotherapy and H2, 02 explosive devices
– I spoke with Glenn W and his family as they drove around Syndney Australia.. we all sang scary songs together
– I spoke with Brother Billy about the vaguraies of TV editors, burning man, robotics, video editing and solid modeling
– I spoke with Jim E about server IO circuits, office politcs, strategy. friends and enemies
– I spoke with max abotu traffic, exits, and dinner
– spoke with Maggie D about solar pannels and ammeters
– I left a message for Ang abotu Anatollian hounds
– I spoke with Davd D about Burning man, discreet cosine transforms,\u00a0 walsh patterns, spatial to audio frequency transformations, chamber music and gamalons
– I spoke with Vlad B about flowers, TV producers, death and recovvoery (We were talkign abotu a friend of his whos son had just died. He asked me how long it took to be ‘over’ Sam’s death.. I told him.. I’d let him know )
– I left a message for Allison W about her phone and septic systems
– I spoke with Morgan H about pirates, TV people, Russians,\u00a0 India, freinds, birthdays , septic systems, rivers and bondage
– I spke to diane abotu Max, Gabe, soap, palm oile. Sodium hydroxide, and staples
– I spoke wiht Homer about shear strength, clutches, kazantzakis, fund raising, my brother projections systems, speed contolers.
– spoke with freind Scott abotu CO2 lasers, diode lasers, transverse waves , EM fields, slivowitz, LED’s , and makerfaire
– I spoke with Prtap P about cloud computers and other high performance computers,
– I spoke with Erc L about TV stuff, tesla coils and michael jackson
I spoke wiht mom about the Museum of scince, Smit college, Engineering ethics careers, and global warming and TV
– I spoke with dad abotu careers , what we both wanted to be when we grew up <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I must admit.. I was pretty board.. here’s my world for thsoe hours<\/div>\n

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now I’m home and ready to selep .. Max just got here.\u00a0 we’re all under one rooof again !\u00a0 I like that.. Gnite folks. Nite Sam !
-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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12:30 AM and I’m just home from NY.. It took me 7 hours to do the normal 5 hour run due to weather. It was incredible !.. There were the most amazing lightening storms nearly tthe whole why back. I saw 2 lightning strikes.. even almost caught one on camera. I was taking a picture … Continue reading Friday night – lightening<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","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\/1043","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=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}