{"id":130800,"date":"2026-03-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=130800"},"modified":"2026-04-19T03:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:00:37","slug":"saturday-night-ted-childs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2026\/03\/21\/saturday-night-ted-childs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – Ted Childs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

a couple of days ago I learned\u00a0 that my old friend and one of my heros Ted Childs died today. I heard from my friend Nick. Ted was the head of HR at IBM for many years. To me he was the the first peerson who really spoke about the laege (>200K) number of technical\u00a0 people at IBM as a ‘community’.. He did so much for that community . He was a real force for diversity of all kinds.. mostly of diversity of thought.. aHe made a huge impact on the culture of our company..\u00a0 \u00a0 and he was an amaziblgy good and nice person.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had to let that sink in a while<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the day was snowy.. we meat our good freinds Jane . george and their dog milo for a short hike and then a yummy breakfast down in Charlotte.. which is about half way between us. Always great catchign up with them<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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later on I worked on a simple fiber-optic Strom for a project. I’m doing at work spend some time making time stand still that was fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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then quiet dinner and a movie with the worlds finest food (mac and cheese)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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nite all, nite sam
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a couple of days ago I learned\u00a0 that my old friend and one of my heros Ted Childs died today. I heard from my friend Nick. Ted was the head of HR at IBM for many years. To me he was the the first peerson who really spoke about the laege (>200K) number of technical\u00a0 … Continue reading Saturday night – Ted Childs<\/span> →<\/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-130800","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\/130800","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=130800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131770,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130800\/revisions\/131770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}