{"id":118026,"date":"2025-04-11T22:59:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T02:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=118026"},"modified":"2025-04-27T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:02:25","slug":"friday-night-akash-and-ericas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/04\/11\/friday-night-akash-and-ericas\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night &#8211; Akash and Erica&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>I spent the day talking to Akassh&#8217;s team and learning more about what they do .&nbsp; I&#8217;m really impressed with all of the team. Around noon my good friends David W&nbsp; and Elpida came in from POK. They&nbsp; were there to understand how they might also work with&nbsp; Red Hat. I felt privileged to be there to hear the brainstorming .&nbsp;<br><br>Meanwhile, A few hundred miles away my old boss Dario was at his Senate Confirmation hearing to be the new Undersecretary of Sceince for the US.&nbsp; &nbsp; He&#8217;s a great guy.. and is exactly the type of person we need to advocate&nbsp; science in these crazy times.&nbsp;<br><br>Dario did a good job answering questions. He got questions from both left and right leaning senators\u2026 One&nbsp; even brought his dog in the appeal for burning more coal\u2026 (Which i think is crazy). I was so proud of Dario.. and happy for him that things went well.&nbsp;<br><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:100.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"118039\" data-link=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?attachment_id=118039\" data-url=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/8F59D7F1-F1FB-49C0-B61F-57F064CFF91E.heic\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/8F59D7F1-F1FB-49C0-B61F-57F064CFF91E.heic\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" aria-label=\"Open image 1 of 1 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:100.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"118049\" data-link=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?attachment_id=118049\" data-url=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/94A3F12F-4C81-4923-A84C-9F212C3C2BD8-1.heic\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/94A3F12F-4C81-4923-A84C-9F212C3C2BD8-1.heic\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" aria-label=\"Open image 1 of 1 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>That night we had a great dinner at Akash and Erikas and got to meet their dog Ladoo ..\u00a0<br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:100.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"118050\" data-link=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?attachment_id=118050\" data-url=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/24888F65-0D55-4DF2-A076-6F2C4C7AED3D-1.heic\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/24888F65-0D55-4DF2-A076-6F2C4C7AED3D-1.heic\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" aria-label=\"Open image 1 of 1 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Wonderful to see them all in their natural habitat !!<br \/><br \/>nite all, nite sam<br \/>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day talking to Akassh&#8217;s team and learning more about what they do .&nbsp; I&#8217;m really impressed with all of the team. Around noon my good friends David W&nbsp; and Elpida came in from POK. They&nbsp; were there to understand how they might also work with&nbsp; Red Hat. I felt privileged to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/04\/11\/friday-night-akash-and-ericas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday night &#8211; Akash and Erica&#8217;s<\/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-118026","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\/118026","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=118026"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118051,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118026\/revisions\/118051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}