{"id":13344,"date":"2014-10-10T23:58:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T03:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=13344"},"modified":"2014-10-10T23:58:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T03:58:55","slug":"friday-night-ceilidh-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/10\/10\/friday-night-ceilidh-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – C\u00e8ilidh Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great day. Diane Max and I were at Carnegie Mellon Universtiy ,, my graduate school alma mater, for an event called C\u00e8ilidh Weekend.\u00a0 It’s a a weekend of talks, demonstrations, panels and events\u00a0 designed for both current and previous alum. It was a full day event with lots of hand shaking wiht interesting an fun people<\/p>\n

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The alumni relations folks took such good care of us.. I knew where I had to be and what i had to do at every point in the day. They even had a parking place for me !\"\"<\/p>\n

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first stop was an awardi lunch.. where I got to met a bunch of really nice folks who were also gettign awards.\u00a0\u00a0 Then i had to ggo get prepared for my talk..<\/p>\n

n the way there, i ran into David Souter, the former supreme coaurt justice in the bathroom.. how cool is that ?<\/p>\n

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the hall for my tlak was a comfortable size.. as folks filtered in, i got to reunite with many old\u00a0 friends.. Here’s Dave G catching up with larry. Dave an I collaborated on our phd research and wrote a book together back in the day.<\/p>\n

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Shilo and beck\u00a0 f old friends\u00a0 from vermont showed up too..<\/p>\n

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my talk went pretty well.. too long, but audience seemed to like it. I enjoyed speaking to them..<\/p>\n

Friend ben even arraigned to have ice cream there for everyone .. that was so awesome..<\/p>\n

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after my talk.. we walked over to hamershlag\u00a0 with larry and lea to see our old stomping grounds. Here’s my old office..<\/p>\n

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Around 5 i headed over to green room. where all the folks getting awards got together. It was great to meet them all.. here’s the gang<\/p>\n

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CMU President Sureash welcomed us all<\/p>\n

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then it was time to get\u00a0 bagpiped into the hall. away we go !<\/p>\n

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there were 18 awardeees.. I was last.. which allowed me to listen to all the other folks.. which was cool<\/p>\n

i was really, really\u00a0 homered to get the distinguished achievement award..<\/p>\n

one by one we got called up on stage, they played a nice\u00a0 video.. we got our award then made a short talk. I loved the short video they’d made me.<\/p>\n

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and then it was over !.. We got bagpiped back into the hall for a really nice reception.\u00a0\u00a0 I met so many folks and shook so many hands that my head was spinning.. .. in a good way. it was inspiring meeting all of those good folks.. I also got to meet the families of the other awardies.<\/p>\n

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Diane and Max there..were super patient with me as i Shmoozed..<\/p>\n

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then ut was done..<\/p>\n

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we headed bakc to the hotel changed clothes a.. and the 3 of us headed out for beer at Primantis.. a famous place.. where the serve french fires on their sandwiches.. It was only beer for us tonight though .\u00a0 I don[t think id been in primantis since the early 90’s.. it hadn’t changed all that much\u00a0 \"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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now .. grateful after this long and fun day to be lying in bed..<\/p>\n

time for me to go to sleep !<\/p>\n

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More stuff tomorrow. Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-ne<\/p>\n

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